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

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Events

  • February 12 – First complete printed edition of Avicenna's The Canon of Medicine (in Latin translation) published in Milan.
  • August 11 – Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II defeats the White Sheep Turkmens led by Uzun Hasan at the Battle of Otlukbeli.

    • Date unknown

  • Axayacatl, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan, invades the territory of the 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.
  • The Almanach cracoviense ad annum 1474 is published.
  • The city walls and defensive moat are built in Celje, Slovenia.
  • Marsilio Ficino becomes a Catholic priest.
  • Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye is the first book to be printed in English by William Caxton

    • Births

  • February 19 – Nicolaus Copernicus, astronomer and mathematician (d. 1543)
  • February 25 – Al-Mutawakkil Yahya Sharaf ad-Din, Imam of the Zaidi state in Yemen (d. 1555)
  • March 3 – Asakura Sadakage, 9th head of Asakura clan (d. 1512)
  • March 14 – Reinhard IV, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg (1500–1512) (d. 1512)
  • March 16 – Henry IV, Duke of Saxony (1539–1541) (d. 1541)
  • March 17 – King James IV of Scotland, King of Scots from 11 June 1488 to his death (d. 1513)
  • April 2 – John Corvinus, Hungarian noble (d. 1504)
  • July 4 – Matilda of Hesse, German noblewoman (d. 1505)
  • July 6 – James III of Cyprus, son of James II of Cyprus and Catherine Cornaro, king of Cyprus (d. 1474)
  • July 25 – Maddalena de' Medici, Italian noble (d. 1528)
  • August 14 – Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury (d. 1541)
  • August 17 – Richard, Duke of York, one of the Princes in the Tower (d. 1483)
  • August 25 – Margaret of Münsterberg, Silesian princess of the house Münsterberg, by marriage, Duchess of Anhalt (d. 1530)
  • September 2 – Ercole Strozzi, Italian poet (d. 1508)
  • September 23 – Thomas Lovett III, High Sheriff of Northamptonshire (d. 1542)
  • September 24 – Georg von Frundsberg, German Knight and landowner (d. 1528)
  • October 26 – Friedrich of Saxony (d. 1510)
  • date unknown – Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, 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)

    • Deaths

  • January 24 – Conrad Paumann, German composer (b. c. 1410)
  • February 23 – Arnold, Duke of Gelderland (b. 1410)
  • April 3 – Alessandro Sforza, Italian condottiero (b. 1409)
  • May 8 – John Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, English politician (b. 1420)
  • July 10 – James II of Cyprus (b. c. 1440)
  • December 24 – John Cantius, Polish scholar and theologian (b. 1390)
  • date unknown
  • Jean Jouffroy, French prelate and diplomat (b. c. 1412)
  • Hosokawa Katsumoto, Japanese nobleman (b. 1430)
  • Nicholas I, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1448)
  • Sigismondo Polcastro, Paduan physician and natural philosopher (b. 1384)
  • Yamana Sōzen, Japanese daimyo and monk (b. 1404)
  • probable – Patriarch Gennadios II of Constantinople (b. c. 1400)

    • References

    1473 Wikipedia
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