Editing 1473

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{{C15 year in topic}}Year '''1473''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MCDLXXIII]]''') was a [[common year starting on Friday]] of the [[Julian calendar]].

== Events ==
=== January&ndash;December ===
* [[February 12]] &ndash; The first complete Inside edition of [[Avicenna]]'s ''[[The Canon of Medicine]]'' ([[Latin]] translation) is published in [[Milan]].
* [[August 11]] &ndash; [[Battle of Otlukbeli]]: [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] Sultan [[Mehmed II]] defeats the [[White Sheep Turkmen]]s, led by [[Uzun Hasan]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Selcuk Aksin Somel|title=The A to Z of the Ottoman Empire|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UU8iCY0OZmcC&pg=PA35|date=23 March 2010|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-1-4617-3176-4|pages=35}}</ref>

=== Date unknown ===
* [[Stephen the Great]] of Moldavia refuses to pay tribute to the Ottomans. This will attract an Ottoman invasion in [[1475]], resulting  in the greatest defeat of the Ottomans so far.
* [[Axayacatl]], [[Aztec]] ruler of [[Tenochtitlan]], invades the territory of the neighboring Aztec city of [[Tlatelolco (altepetl)|Tlatelolco]]. The ruler of Tlatelolco is killed and replaced by a military governor; Tlatelolco loses its independence.
* Possible discovery of the island of "[[Bacalao (phantom island)|Bacalao]]" (possibly [[Newfoundland (island)|Newfoundland]] off North America) by [[Didrik Pining]] and [[João Vaz Corte-Real]].
* The city walls and defensive moat are built in [[Celje]], [[Slovenia]].
* ''[[Almanach cracoviense ad annum 1474]]'', an astronomical wall calendar, is published in [[Kraków]], the oldest known [[printing]] in [[Poland]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Carter|first=F. W.|title=Trade and Urban Development in Poland: An Economic Geography of Cracow, from Its Origins to 1795|url=https://archive.org/details/tradeurbandevelo00cart|url-access=limited|date=2006|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9780521024389|page=[https://archive.org/details/tradeurbandevelo00cart/page/n385 364]}}</ref>
* Florentine physician [[Marsilio Ficino]] becomes a [[Catholic Church|Catholic]] priest.
* Possible date &ndash; ''[[Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye]]'' is the first book to be printed in English, by [[William Caxton]], in [[Bruges]].

== Births ==
[[File:Nikolaus Kopernikus.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Nicolaus Copernicus]]]]
* [[February 19]] &ndash; [[Nicolaus Copernicus]], Polish astronomer and mathematician (d. [[1543]])<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/copernicus-born |title=Copernicus born |journal=[[History.com]] |access-date=18 June 2019 |publisher=[[A&E Television Networks]] |date=9 February 2010}}</ref>
* [[February 25]] &ndash; [[Al-Mutawakkil Yahya Sharaf ad-Din]], Imam of the Zaidi state in Yemen (d. [[1555]])
* [[March 3]] &ndash; [[Asakura Sadakage]], 9th head of the Asakura clan (d. [[1512]])
* [[March 14]] &ndash; [[Reinhard IV, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg]] (1500–1512) (d. [[1512]])
* [[March 16]] &ndash; [[Henry IV, Duke of Saxony]] (1539–1541) (d. [[1541]])
* [[March 17]] &ndash; King [[James IV of Scotland]], King of Scots from 11 June 1488 to his death (d. [[1513]])<ref>{{cite book|editor1-last=Lynch|editor1-first=Michael|title=The Oxford Companion to Scottish history|date=February 24, 2011 |publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780199693054|page=352}}</ref>
* [[April 2]] &ndash; [[John Corvinus]], Hungarian noble (d. [[1504]])
* [[July 4]] &ndash; [[Matilda of Hesse]], German noblewoman (d. [[1505]])<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VRBWAAAAMAAJ |title=Krefeld Immigrants and Their Descendants |volume=13-17 |page=59 |publisher=Links Genealogy Publications |year=1996}}</ref>
* [[July 6]] &ndash; [[James III of Cyprus]], son of [[James II of Cyprus]] and [[Catherine Cornaro]], king of [[Cyprus]] (d. [[1474]])
* [[July]] &ndash; [[Maddalena de' Medici (1473–1528)|Maddalena de' Medici]], Italian noble (d. [[1528]])<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oFZ8DQAAQBAJ&pg=PT58 |title=Luther and His Times |first=Michael |last=Grzonka |publisher=[[Lulu Press, Inc]] |date=7 November 2016 |page=58 |isbn=9781365515897}}</ref>
* [[August 14]] &ndash; [[Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury]] (d. [[1541]])
* [[August 17]] &ndash; [[Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York|Richard, Duke of York]], one of the Princes in the Tower (d. [[1483]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Arlene Okerlund|title=Elizabeth Wydeville: The Slandered Queen|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C_4WAQAAIAAJ|year=2005|publisher=Tempus|isbn=978-0-7524-3384-4|page=154}}</ref>
* [[August 25]] &ndash; [[Margaret of Münsterberg]], Duchess consort and regent of Anhalt (d. [[1530]])
* [[September 2]] &ndash; [[Ercole Strozzi]], Italian poet (d. [[1508]])<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1WI1GORYBxsC&pg=PA336 |title=Modern Poets |first=Lilio Gregorio |last=Giraldi |author-link=Lilio Gregorio Giraldi |publisher=[[Harvard University Press]] |date=31 May 2011 |page=336 |isbn=9780674055759 |editor-first=John N |editor-last=Grant}}</ref>
* [[September 23]] &ndash; [[Thomas Lovett III]], High Sheriff of Northamptonshire (d. [[1542]])
* [[September 24]] &ndash; [[Georg von Frundsberg]], German knight and landowner (d. [[1528]])
* [[October 26]] &ndash; [[Friedrich of Saxony (1473-1510)|Friedrich of Saxony]], Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights (d. [[1510]])
* ''date unknown'' &ndash; [[Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk]], English Tudor politician (d. [[1555]])
* ''probable''
** [[Jean Lemaire de Belges]], Walloon poet and historian (d. [[1525]])
** [[Edward of Middleham, Prince of Wales]], only son of [[Richard III of England]] (d. [[1484]])
** [[Cecilia Gallerani]], principal mistress of Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan (d. [[1536]])

== Deaths ==
* [[January 24]] &ndash; [[Conrad Paumann]], German composer (b. c. 1410)
* [[February 23]] &ndash; [[Arnold, Duke of Guelders]] (b. [[1410]])
* [[April 3]] &ndash; [[Alessandro Sforza]], [[Italy|Italian]] condottiero (b. [[1409]])
* [[April 15]] &ndash; [[Yamana Sōzen]], Japanese daimyō and monk (b. [[1404]])
* [[May 8]] &ndash; [[John Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire]], English politician (b. [[1420]])
* [[June 6]] &ndash; [[Hosokawa Katsumoto]], Japanese nobleman (b. [[1430]])
* [[June 28]] &ndash; [[John Talbot, 3rd Earl of Shrewsbury]], English nobleman (b. [[1448]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=E. B. Pryde|author2=D. E. Greenway|author3=S. Porter|author4=I. Roy|title=Handbook of British Chronology|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zcgxEvGAK_kC&pg=PA482|date=23 February 1996|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-56350-5|pages=482}}</ref>
* [[July 10]] &ndash; [[James II of Cyprus]] (b. c. [[1440]])
* [[November 26]] &ndash; [[Diego Fernández de la Cueva, 1st Viscount of Huelma]]
* [[October]] &ndash; [[Contessina de' Bardi]], politically active Florentine woman (b. [[1390]])
* [[December 24]] &ndash; [[John Cantius]], Polish scholar and theologian (b. [[1390]])
* ''date unknown''
** [[Ewuare|Ewuare I, Oba of Benin]]
** [[Jean Jouffroy]], French prelate and diplomat (b. c. [[1412]])
** [[Nicholas I, Duke of Lorraine]] (b. [[1448]])
** [[Sigismondo Polcastro]], Paduan physician and natural philosopher (b. [[1384]])
* ''probable'' &ndash; [[Marina Nani]], Venetian dogaressa (b. c. [[1400]])
* ''probable'' &ndash; [[Patriarch Gennadios II of Constantinople]] (b. c. [[1400]])

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