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Year 1475 (MCDLXXV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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January–December

  • January 10 – Battle of Vaslui: Stephen III of Moldavia defeats the Ottoman Empire, which is led at this time by Mehmed the Conqueror of Constantinople.
  • July 4 – Burgundian Wars: Edward IV of England lands in Calais in support of the Duchy of Burgundy against France.
  • August 29 – The Treaty of Picquigny ends the brief war between France and England.
  • November 13 – Burgundian Wars: Battle on the Planta: Forces of the Old Swiss Confederacy are victorious against those of the Duchy of Savoy near Sion, Switzerland.
  • November 14 – The original Landshut Wedding takes place, between George, Duke of Bavaria, and Hedwig Jagiellon.

    • Date unknown

  • Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye is the first book to be printed in English, by William Caxton in Bruges.
  • Rashi's commentary on the Torah is the first dated book to be printed in Hebrew, in Reggio di Calabria.
  • The oldest recorded game of chess is played, between Francesco di Castellvi and Narciso Vinyoles.
  • Conrad of Megenberg's book, Buch der Natur, is published in Augsburg.

    • Births

  • January 9 – Crinitus, Italian humanist (d. 1507)
  • January 29 – Giuliano Bugiardini, Italian painter (d. 1577)
  • February 25 – Edward Plantagenet, 17th Earl of Warwick, last male member of the House of York (d. 1499)
  • March 6 – Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian sculptor (d. 1564)
  • March 12 – Luca Gaurico, Italian astrologer (d. 1558)
  • March 30 – Elisabeth of Culemborg, German noble (d. 1555)
  • June 29 – Beatrice d'Este (d. 1497)
  • September 6
  • Artus Gouffier, Lord of Boissy, French nobleman and politician (d. 1519)
  • Sebastiano Serlio, Italian Mannerist architect (d. 1554)
  • September 13 – Cesare Borgia, illegitimate son of Pope Alexander VI (approximate date; d. 1507)
  • October 20 – Giovanni di Bernardo Rucellai, Renaissance man of letters (d. 1525)
  • November 2 – Anne of York, Fifth daughter of King Edward IV of England and Elizabeth Woodville (d. 1511)
  • November 28 – Anne Shelton, elder sister of Thomas Boleyn (d. 1555)
  • December 11 – Pope Leo X (d. 1521)
  • December 24 – Thomas Murner, German satirist (d. c. 1537)
  • date unknown
  • Valerius Anshelm, Swiss chronicler
  • Vasco Núñez de Balboa, Spanish conquistador (approximate date; d. 1519)
  • Gendun Gyatso, 2nd Dalai Lama (d. 1541)
  • probable
  • Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón, Spanish explorer (d. 1526)
  • Thomas West, 9th Baron De La Warr (d. 1554)
  • Margaret Drummond, mistress of James IV of Scotland (d. 1502)
  • Pierre Gringoire, French poet and playwright (d. 1538)
  • Filippo de Lurano, Italian composer (d. 1520)
  • John Stokesley, English prelate (d. 1539)
  • Gunilla Bese, Finnish noble and fiefholder (d. 1553)

    • Deaths

  • March – Simon of Trent, Italian saint, subject of a blood libel
  • March 10 – Richard West, 7th Baron De La Warr (b. 1430)
  • March 20 – Georges Chastellain, Burgundian chronicler and poet
  • June 13 – Joan of Portugal, Queen of Castile (b. 1439)
  • September 6 – Adolph II of Nassau, Archbishop of Mainz (b. c. 1423)
  • December 10 – Paolo Uccello, Italian painter (b. 1397)
  • date unknown
  • Radu cel Frumos, Prince of Wallachia (b. c. 1437)
  • Theodorus Gaza, one of the Greek scholars who were the leaders of the revival of learning in the 15th century (b. c. 1400)
  • Theodosius, Metropolitan of Moscow
  • Masuccio Salernitano, Italian poet (b. 1410)

    • References

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