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1476


Year 1476 (MCDLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Contents

January–December

  • March 2 – Battle of Grandson: Swiss victory against Burgundy.
  • November 26 – Vlad the Impaler declares himself reigning Prince of Wallachia for the third and last time. He was killed on the march to Bucharest, probably before the end of December. His head was sent to his old enemy Sultan Mehmed of the Ottomans.

    • Births

  • January 14 – Anne St Leger, Baroness de Ros, English baroness (d. 1526)
  • 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)
  • July 17 – Adrian Fortescue, English Roman Catholic martyr (d. 1539)
  • July 21
  • Alfonso I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara (d. 1534)
  • Anna Sforza, Italian noble (d. 1497)
  • July 22 – Zhu Youyuan, Ming Dynasty politician (d. 1519)
  • August 28 – Kanō Motonobu, Japanese painter (d. 1559)
  • September 11 – Louise of Savoy, French noblewoman (d. 1531)
  • October 1 – Guy XVI de Laval, Count of France (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)
  • After March 3 – John I Ernuszt, Ban of Slavonia
  • June 8 – George Neville, English archbishop and statesman (b. c. 1432)
  • July 6 – Regiomontanus, German astronomer (b. 1436)
  • November 28 – James of the Marches, Franciscan friar
  • December
  • Vlad III the Impaler, Prince of Wallachia (b. 1431)
  • Isabel Neville, Duchess of Clarence, English noblewoman (b. 1451)
  • December 12 – Frederick I, Elector Palatine (b. 1425)
  • December 26 – Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan (assassinated) (b. 1444)

    • References

    1476 Wikipedia
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