Editing 1474

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{{C15 year in topic}}Year '''1474''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MCDLXXIV]]''') was a [[common year starting on Saturday]] of the [[Julian calendar]].

== Events ==
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=== January–December ===
* [[February]] – The [[Treaty of Utrecht (1474)|Treaty of Utrecht]] puts an end to the [[Anglo-Hanseatic War]].
* [[March 19]] – The [[Venetian Senate|Senate]] of the [[Republic of Venice]] enacts the ''[[Venetian Patent Statute]]'', one of the earliest [[patent]] systems in the world.<ref name="Ladas">{{Cite book|last=Ladas|first=Stephen Pericles|title=Patents, Trademarks, and Related Rights: National and International Protection, Volume 1|year=1975|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=978-0-674-65775-5|pages=6–7}}</ref> New and inventive devices, once put into practice, have to be communicated to the Republic to obtain the right to prevent others from using them. This is considered the first modern patent system.<ref>{{Cite book|first= Helmut|last=Schippel|chapter=Die Anfänge des Erfinderschutzes in Venedig|editor-last=Lindgren|editor-first= Uta |editor-link= Uta Lindgren |title=Europäische Technik im Mittelalter, 800 bis 1400: Tradition und Innovation |edition=4. |location=Berlin|year=2001|pages=539–550|isbn=3-7861-1748-9 |url=http://www.wolfgang-pfaller.de/venedig.htm|publisher=Wolfgang Pfaller}}</ref>
* [[July 25]] – By signing the [[Treaty of London (1474)|Treaty of London]], [[Charles the Bold]] of Burgundy agrees to support [[Edward IV of England]]'s planned invasion of France.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Lander|first=J. R.|title=Government and Community: England, 1450–1509|year=1981|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=978-0-674-35794-5|page=287}}</ref>
* [[December 12]] – Upon the death of [[Henry IV of Castile]], a civil war ensues between his designated successor [[Isabella I of Castile]], and her niece [[Joanna la Beltraneja|Juana]], who is supported by her husband, [[Afonso V of Portugal]]. Isabella wins the civil war after a lengthy struggle, when her husband, the newly crowned [[Ferdinand II of Aragon]], comes to her aid.

=== Date unknown ===
* [[Marsilio Ficino]] completes his book ''[[Platonic Theology (Ficino)|Theologia Platonica]]'' (Platonic Theology).
* [[Axayacatl]] defeats the [[Matlatzinca people|Matlatzinca]] of the [[Toluca Valley]].
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== Births ==
* [[January 7]] – [[Thihathura II of Ava]] (d. [[1501]])
* [[March 21]] – [[Angela Merici]], Italian religious leader and saint (d. [[1540]])
* [[May 5]]
** [[Juan Diego]], Roman Catholic Saint from Mexico (d. [[1548]])
** [[Giovanni Stefano Ferrero]], Italian cardinal (d. [[1510]])
* [[May 18]] – [[Isabella d'Este]], Marquise of Mantua (d. [[1539]])
* [[August 6]] – [[Luigi de' Rossi]], Italian cardinal (d. [[1519]])
* [[September 8]] – [[Ludovico Ariosto]], Italian poet (d. [[1533]])<ref>{{Cite book|author1=Peter G. Bietenholz|author2=Thomas Brian Deutscher|title=Contemporaries of Erasmus: A Biographical Register of the Renaissance and Reformation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hruQ386SfFcC&pg=PA71|date=1 January 2003|publisher=University of Toronto Press|isbn=978-0-8020-8577-1|pages=71}}</ref>
* [[October 6]] – [[Luigi d'Aragona]], Italian cardinal (d. [[1518]])
* [[October 7]] – [[Bernhard III, Margrave of Baden-Baden]] (d. [[1536]])
* [[October 13]] – [[Mariotto Albertinelli]], High Renaissance Italian painter of the Florentine school (d. [[1515]])
* [[November 7]] – [[Lorenzo Campeggio]], Italian Cardinal (d. [[1539]])
* [[November 8]] – [[Francesco Vettori]], Italian diplomat (d. [[1539]])
* [[November 11]] – [[Bartolomé de las Casas]], Spanish Dominican friar, historian, and social reformer (d. [[1566]])
* [[December 24]] – [[Bartolomeo degli Organi]], Italian musician (d. [[1539]])
* ''date unknown''
** [[Anacaona]], Taino queen and poet (d. [[1503]])
** [[Juan Diego]], Mexican Catholic saint (d. [[1548]])
** [[Giacomo Pacchiarotti]], Italian painter (d. [[1539]] or [[1540]])
** [[Cuthbert Tunstall]], English bishop and diplomat (d. [[1559]])
** [[Humphrey Kynaston]], English highwayman (d. [[1534]])
* ''probable''
** [[Sebastian Cabot (explorer)|Sebastian Cabot]], Venetian explorer (d. c. [[1557]])<ref>{{Cite book|author=Plinio Prioreschi|title=A History of Medicine: Renaissance medicine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g-koAQAAIAAJ|year=1996|publisher=Horatius Press|isbn=978-1-888456-06-6|page=65}}</ref>
** [[Edward Guilford]], Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports of England (d. [[1534]])
** [[Stephen Hawes]], English poet (d. c. [[1521]])
** [[John Seymour (1474–1536)|Sir John Seymour]], English courtier (d. [[1536]])
** [[Perkin Warbeck]], pretender to the throne of England (d. [[1499]])

== Deaths ==
[[File:ErichII.Pommern.JPG|thumb|right|110px|[[Eric II, Duke of Pomerania]] died [[5 July]]]]
[[File:Ali Kuşçu Portre.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Ali Qushji]] died [[16 December]]]]
* [[January 3]] – [[Pietro Riario]], Catholic cardinal (b. [[1447]])
* [[March 22]] – [[Iacopo III Appiani]], Prince of Piombino (b. [[1422]])
* [[April 14]] – [[Anna of Brunswick-Grubenhagen]], daughter of Duke Eric I of Brunswick-Grubenhagen (b. [[1414]])
* [[April 30]] – [[Queen Gonghye]], Korean royal consort (b. [[1456]])
* [[May 4]] – [[Alain de Coëtivy]], Catholic cardinal (b. [[1407]])
* [[May 9]]
** [[Alfonso Vázquez de Acuña]], Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Jaén and Bishop of Mondoñedo (b. 1474)
** [[Peter von Hagenbach]], Alsatian knight and ruler (b. [[1423]])
* [[May 11]] – [[John Stanberry]], Bishop of Hereford<ref>{{Cite book|author=Exeter Diocesan Architectural and Archaeological Society|publisher=EDAAS|location= Exeter, England|title=Transactions of the Exeter Diocesan Architectural Society|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hsGgAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA218|year=1867|pages=218}}</ref>
* [[May 14]] – [[Choe Hang (Joseon civil minister)|Choe Hang]], Korean politician (b. [[1409]])
* [[July 5]] – [[Eric II, Duke of Pomerania]]-Wolgast (b. [[1418]])
* [[July 9]] – [[Isotta degli Atti]], Italian Renaissance woman (b. [[1432]])
* [[July 18]] – [[Mahmud Pasha Angelović]], Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. [[1420]])
* [[August 1]] – [[Walter Blount, 1st Baron Mountjoy]], English politician (b. [[1416]])
* [[August 16]] – [[Ricciarda of Saluzzo]] (b. [[1410]])
* [[August 26]] – [[James III of Cyprus]] (b. [[1473]])
* [[September 21]] – [[George I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau]] (b. [[1390]])
* [[October 1]] – [[Juan Pacheco]], Spanish noble and politician (b. [[1419]])
* November – [[William Canynge]], English merchant (b. c. [[1399]])
* [[November 27]] – [[Guillaume Dufay]], Flemish composer (b. [[1397]])<ref>{{Cite book|author=Reinhard Strohm|title=The Rise of European Music, 1380–1500|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8gwToY1HEoIC&pg=PA285|date=17 February 2005|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-61934-9|pages=285}}</ref>
* [[December 1]] – [[Nicolò Marcello]], Doge of Venice (b. [[1397]])
* [[December 11]] – King [[Henry IV of Castile]] (b. [[1425]])<ref>{{Cite book|title=The New Encyclopaedia Britannica|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rIQxAQAAIAAJ|year=2003|publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica|isbn=978-0-85229-961-6|page=733}}</ref>
* [[December 16]] – [[Ali Qushji]], Ottoman astronomer and mathematician (b. [[1403]])
* ''date unknown''
** [[Gomes Eannes de Azurara]], Portuguese chronicler (b. c. [[1410]])
** [[Antoinette de Maignelais]], French royal favorite (b. [[1434]])
** [[1st Dalai Lama|Gendun Drup, 1st Dalai Lama]] (b. [[1391]])
* ''probable''
** [[Walter Frye]], English composer
** [[Jehan de Waurin]], French chronicler

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