1473


Year '1473' was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Events of 1473
Births
Deaths

Events of 1473



Ottoman sultan Mehmed II defeats the White Sheep Turkmens lead by Uzun Hasan at Otlukbeli

Axayacatl, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan invades the territory of neighboring Aztec city of Tlatelolco. The ruler of Tlatelolco is killed and replaced by a military governor. Tlatelolco loses its independence.

★ Possible discovery of Bacalao (possibly Newfoundland, North America) by Didrik Pining and João Vaz Corte-Real

Almanach cracoviense ad annum 1474 published

Births



February 19 - Nicolaus Copernicus, astronomer and mathematician (died 1543)

March 17 - King James IV of Scotland (died 1513)

August 14 - Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury (died 1541)

August 17 - Richard, Duke of York, one of the Princes in the Tower (died 1483)

September 24 - Georg von Frundsberg, German Knight and landowner (died 1528)

October 26 - Friedrich of Saxony (d. 1510)

★ ''date unknown'' - Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, Tudor politician (died 1555)

★ ''probable''


Jean Lemaire de Belges, Walloon poet and historian (died 1525)


Edward of Middleham, Prince of Wales, only son of Richard III of England (died 1484)

Deaths



January 24 - Conrad Paumann, German composer (born c1410)

February 23 - Arnold, Duke of Gelderland (born 1410)

★ April - Alessandro Sforza, condottiero

May 8 - John Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, English politician (born 1420)

July 10 - James II of Cyprus (born c1440)

December 24 - John Cantius, Polish scholar and theologian (born 1390)

★ ''date unknown''


Jean Jouffroy, French prelate and diplomat (born c1412)


Hosokawa Katsumoto, Japanese nobleman (born 1430)


Nicholas I, Duke of Lorraine (born 1448)


Yamana SÅzen, Japanese daimyo and monk (born 1404)

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