1477

All you want to know about 1477

Centuries:	14th century - 15th century - 16th century
Decades:	1440s 1450s 1460s - 1470s - 1480s 1490s 1500s
Years:	1474 1475 1476 - 1477 - 1478 1479 1480

1477 in topic:
Subjects: Archaeology - Architecture -
Art - Literature - Music - Science
Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors
Category: Establishments - Disestablishments
Births - Deaths - Works v • d • e

**1477 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1477 MCDLXXVII
Ab urbe condita	2230
Armenian calendar	926 ԹՎ ՋԻԶ
Bahá'í calendar	-367 – -366
Berber calendar	2427
Buddhist calendar	2021
Burmese calendar	839
Byzantine calendar	6985 – 6986
Chinese calendar	丙申年十二月十七日 (4113/4173-12-17) — to — 丁酉年十一月廿七日 (4114/4174-11-27)
Coptic calendar	1193 – 1194
Ethiopian calendar	1469 – 1470
Hebrew calendar	5237 – 5238
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1532 – 1533
- Shaka Samvat	1399 – 1400
- Kali Yuga	4578 – 4579
Holocene calendar	11477
Iranian calendar	855 – 856
Islamic calendar	881 – 882
Japanese calendar	Bunmei 9 (文明9年)
Korean calendar	3810
Thai solar calendar	2020
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Year 1477 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January 5 - Battle of Nancy: Charles the Bold of Burgundy is again defeated, and this time is killed. This marks the end of the Burgundian Wars.
February 10 - Mary of Burgundy, the daughter of Charles the Bold, is forced by her disgruntled subjects to sign the "Great Privilege," by which the Flemish cities recover all the local and communal rights which had been abolished by the arbitrary decrees of the dukes of Burgundy, in their efforts to create in the Low Countries a centralized state.
August 18 - Mary of Burgundy marries Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor in Ghent, bringing her Flemish and Burgundian lands into the Holy Roman Empire and detaching them from France.
The Swedish University of Uppsala is founded.
November 18 - William Caxton produces Dictes or Sayengis of the Philosophres, the first English book printed on an English printing press.

Births

Map showing the situation of 1477, with Calais, the English Pale and neighboring counties

Map showing the situation of 1477, with Calais, the English Pale and neighboring counties

January 14 - Hermann of Wied, German Catholic archbishop (d. 1552)
January 16 - Johannes Schöner, German astronomer and cartographer (d. 1547)
January 25 - Anne of Brittany, queen of Charles VIII of France (d. 1514)
February 3 - Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham (d. 1521)
March 20 - Jerome Emser, German theologian (d. 1527)
July 4 - Johannes Aventinus, Bavarian historian and philologist (d. 1534)
date unknown
- István Báthory, Hungarian nobleman (d. 1534)
probable
- Giorgione, painter in Italian High Renaissance (d. 1510)
- Girolamo del Pacchia, Italian painter (d. 1533)
- Lambert Simnel, pretender to the throne of England (d. c. 1534)
- Il Sodoma, Italian painter (d. 1549)
- Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, English diplomat (d. 1539)

Deaths

January 2
- Franzone, assassin (executed)
- Gerolamo Olgiati, assassin (executed)
- Carlo Visconti, assassin (executed)
January 5 - Charles, Duke of Burgundy (in battle) (b. 1433)
January 6 - Jean VIII, Count of Vendôme
August 4 - Jacques d'Armagnac, Duke of Nemours
August 11 - Latino Orsini, cardinal (b. 1411)

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