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1476 in poetry |
| 436 before ROC 民前436年 | |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 8 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2018–2019 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴木羊年 (female Wood-Goat) 1602 or 1221 or 449 — to — 阳火猴年 (male Fire-Monkey) 1603 or 1222 or 450 |
Year 1476 (MCDLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar
Events
January–December
- Catholic Monarchs the Crown of Castile, forming the basis for modern-day Spain.
- March 2 – Battle of Grandson (Burgundian Wars): Swiss forces defeat Burgundy.[1]
- June 22 – Battle of Morat (Burgundian Wars): The Burgundians suffer a crushing defeat, at the hands of the Swiss.
- Stephen III of Moldavia.
- Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II.
Date unknown
- Leonardo da Vinci is acquitted on charges of sodomy, after which he disappears from the historical record for two years.
- Tarascans of Michoacán.
- Goyghor Mosque is built by Musa ibn Haji Amir and his son, Majlis Alam.[2]
Births
- January 14 – Anne St Leger, Baroness de Ros, English baroness (d. 1526)[3]
- March 12 – Anna Jagiellon, Duchess of Pomerania, Polish princess (d. 1503)
- May 2 – Charles I, Duke of Münsterberg-Oels, Count of Kladsko, Governor of Bohemia and Silesia (d. 1536)
- May 19 – Helena of Moscow, Grand Duchess consort of Lithuania and Queen consort of Poland (d. 1513)
- June 28 – Pope Paul IV (d. 1559)[4]
- July 17 – Adrian Fortescue, English Roman Catholic martyr (d. 1539)[5]
- July 21
- Alfonso I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara (d. 1534)
- Anna Sforza, Italian noble (d. 1497)[6]
- July 22 – Zhu Youyuan, Ming Dynasty politician (d. 1519)
- August 28 – Kanō Motonobu, Japanese painter (d. 1559)
- September 11 – Louise of Savoy, French regent (d. 1531)[7]
- October 1 – Guy XVI, Count of Laval (d. 1531)
- October 26 – Yi Gi, Korean philosopher (d. 1552)
- November 23 – Yeonsangun of Joseon, King of Korean Joseon Dynasty (d. 1506)
- December 13 – Lucy Brocadelli, Dominican tertiary and stigmatic (d. 1544)
- date unknown – Juan Sebastián Elcano, Spanish explorer (d. 1526)
Deaths
- January 14
- John de Mowbray, 4th Duke of Norfolk (b. 1444)
- Anne of York, Duchess of Exeter, Duchess of York, second child of Richard Plantagenet (b. 1439)
- March 1 – Imagawa Yoshitada, 9th head of the Imagawa clan (b. 1436)
- March 10 – Richard West, 7th Baron De La Warr (b. 1430)
- March – John I Ernuszt, Ban of Slavonia
- June 8 – George Neville, English archbishop and statesman (b. c. 1432)
- July 6 – Regiomontanus, German astronomer (b. 1436)
- Jean II, Duke of Alençon, son of John I of Alençon and Marie of Brittany (b. 1409)
- November 28 – James of the Marches, Franciscan friar
- December
- Vlad III the Impaler, Prince of Wallachia (b. 1431)[8]
- Isabel Neville, Duchess of Clarence, English noblewoman (b. 1451)[9]
- December 12 – Frederick I, Elector Palatine (b. 1425)
- December 26 – Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan (assassinated) (b. 1444)
- Clara Hätzlerin, German scribe (b. 1430)
References
- ISBN 978-1-84383-668-1.
- ^ "বাংলাদেশের কয়েকটি প্রাচীন মসজিদ". Inqilab Enterprise & Publications Ltd. August 25, 2015. Archived from the original on September 23, 2015.
- ISBN 9780806315188.
- ISBN 9781134509560.
- ^ The Lambeth Review: A Quarterly Magazine of Theology, Christian Politics, Literature, and Art. Vol. 1. London: R. J. Mitchell and Sons. March 1872.
- G. Bell & Sons. p. 16.
- ^ "Louise Of Savoy | French regent". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved September 21, 2020.
- ^ Radu Florescu; Raymond T. McNally (1973). Dracula: A Biography of Vlad the Impaler, 1431-1476. Hawthorn Books. p. 115.
- ISBN 978-0-85220-088-9.