1476

Year '1476' was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Events

Births

Deaths

Events

★ March 2 - Battle of Grandson. A Swiss army defeats the Burgundians under Charles the Bold

★ June 2 - Battle of Morat. The Swiss again defeat Charles.

★ July 26 - Battle of Valea Albă. The Moldavians defeated by Ottoman army of Mehmed the Conqueror.

★ December - Vlad III the Impaler manages to become reigning Prince of Wallachia for the third and last time before being killed by the Ottoman turks at the battle of Bucharest. His head is sent to his old enemy Sultan Mehmed II of the Ottoman Empire.

Births

★ June 28 - Pope Paul IV (died 1559)

★ August 28 - Kano Motonobu, Japanese painter (died 1559)

★ ''date unknown'' - Juan Sebastián Elcano, Spanish explorer (died 1526)

Deaths

★ January 14 -John de Mowbray, 4th Duke of Norfolk (born 1444)

★ June 8 - George Neville, English archbishop and statesman (born c1432)

★ July 6 - Regiomontanus, German astronomer (born 1436)

★ November 28 - James of the Marches, Franciscan friar

★ December

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★ Vlad III the Impaler, Prince of Wallachia (born 1431)

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★ Isabella Neville, Duchess of Clarence (born 1451)

★ December 12 - Frederick I, Elector Palatine (born 1425)

★ December 26 - Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan (assassinated) (born 1444)