1473 - Wikipedia Jump to content Main menu Main menu move to sidebar hide Navigation Main page Contents Current events Random article About Wikipedia Contact us Contribute Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file Special pages Search Search Appearance Donate Create account Log in Personal tools Donate Create account Log in Contents move to sidebar hide (Top) 1 Events Toggle Events subsection 1.1 January–March 1.2 April–June 1.3 July–September 1.4 October–December 1.5 Date unknown 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 References Toggle the table of contents 1473 147 languages Аԥсшәа Afrikaans Alemannisch አማርኛ Aragonés العربية الدارجة مصرى Asturianu Kotava Azərbaycanca تۆرکجه Boarisch Беларуская (тарашкевіца) Беларуская Български বাংলা বিষ্ণুপ্রিয়া মণিপুরী Brezhoneg Bosanski Català 閩東語 / Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄ Нохчийн Cebuano کوردی Qırımtatarca Čeština Чӑвашла Cymraeg Dansk Deutsch Zazaki Ελληνικά Emiliàn e rumagnòl Esperanto Español Eesti Euskara فارسی Suomi Føroyskt Français Nordfriisk Frysk Gaeilge 贛語 Kriyòl gwiyannen Gàidhlig Galego Gaelg עברית हिन्दी Hrvatski Kreyòl ayisyen Magyar Հայերեն Interlingua Bahasa Indonesia Ilokano Ido Íslenska Italiano 日本語 Jawa ქართული Qaraqalpaqsha Қазақша 한국어 Ripoarisch Latina Lëtzebuergesch Limburgs Ligure Lombard Lietuvių Latviešu मैथिली Basa Banyumasan Мокшень Олык марий Māori Minangkabau Македонски मराठी Кырык мары Bahasa Melayu မြန်မာဘာသာ مازِرونی Nāhuatl Napulitano Plattdüütsch नेपाल भाषा Nederlands Norsk nynorsk Norsk bokmål Nouormand Occitan Livvinkarjala ଓଡ଼ିଆ Ирон Polski پنجابی Português Runa Simi Română Русский Русиньскый संस्कृतम् Саха тыла Sardu Sicilianu سنڌي Davvisámegiella Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски တႆး Simple English Slovenčina Slovenščina Anarâškielâ Shqip Српски / srpski Sunda Svenska Kiswahili தமிழ் తెలుగు Тоҷикӣ ไทย Türkmençe Tagalog Tolışi Türkçe Татарча / tatarça Українська اردو Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча Vèneto Tiếng Việt West-Vlams Walon Winaray 吴语 მარგალური ייִדיש 閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gí 粵語 中文 Edit links Article Talk English Read Edit View history Tools Tools move to sidebar hide Actions Read Edit View history General What links here Related changes Upload file Permanent link Page information Cite this page Get shortened URL Switch to legacy parser Print/export Download as PDF Printable version In other projects Wikimedia Commons Wikiquote Wikidata item Appearance move to sidebar hide From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia October 7: Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy holds a banquet at Trier for the leaders of the Holy Roman Empire and ends up alienating the guests. Calendar year Years Millennium 2nd millennium Centuries 14th century 15th century 16th century Decades 1450s 1460s 1470s 1480s 1490s Years 1469 1470 1471 1472 1473 1474 1475 v t e The proposed Kingdom of Burgundy that would have been ruled by Charles the Bold 1473 by topic Arts and science Architecture Art Leaders Political entities State leaders Religious leaders Birth and death categories Births – Deaths Establishments and disestablishments categories Establishments – Disestablishments Art and literature 1473 in poetry v t e 1473 in various calendarsGregorian calendar 1473 MCDLXXIII Ab urbe condita 2226 Armenian calendar 922 ԹՎ ՋԻԲ Assyrian calendar 6223 Balinese saka calendar 1394–1395 Bengali calendar 879–880 Berber calendar 2423 English Regnal year 12 Edw. 4 – 13 Edw. 4 Buddhist calendar 2017 Burmese calendar 835 Byzantine calendar 6981–6982 Chinese calendar 壬辰年 (Water Dragon) 4170 or 3963     — to — 癸巳年 (Water Snake) 4171 or 3964 Coptic calendar 1189–1190 Discordian calendar 2639 Ethiopian calendar 1465–1466 Hebrew calendar 5233–5234 Hindu calendars  - Vikram Samvat 1529–1530  - Shaka Samvat 1394–1395  - Kali Yuga 4573–4574 Holocene calendar 11473 Igbo calendar 473–474 Iranian calendar 851–852 Islamic calendar 877–878 Japanese calendar Bunmei 5 (文明５年) Javanese calendar 1389–1390 Julian calendar 1473 MCDLXXIII Korean calendar 3806 Minguo calendar 439 before ROC 民前439年 Nanakshahi calendar 5 Thai solar calendar 2015–2016 Tibetan calendar ཆུ་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་ (male Water-Dragon) 1599 or 1218 or 446     — to — ཆུ་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་ (female Water-Snake) 1600 or 1219 or 447 Year 1473 (MCDLXXIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar. Events [edit] January–March [edit] January 1 – The uninhabited island of Annobón, off of the coast of West Africa, is claimed by Portuguese explorers who name it in honor of the New Year.[1] A year later, it becomes the home of enslaved Africans who either marry or work of Portuguese citizens, or sold. January 9 – Pope Sixtus IV lifts the order of interdict that had been placed by Pope Paul II on the late Bohemian King George of Poděbrady and his sons, granting absolution, after the sons convert to the Roman Catholic faith.[2] January 22 – Muhammad Jiwa Shah becomes the new Sultan of Kedah, an absolute monarchy at the south of the Malay Peninsula and now part of Malaysia, upon the death of his father, Ataullah Muhammad Shah. February 12 – The first complete inside edition of Avicenna's The Canon of Medicine (Latin translation) is published in Milan. March 6 – The original University of Trier is founded in the Electorate of the Paletine in what is now Germany, 18 years after the Pope had granted the Archbishop of Trier, Jakob von Sierck, the papal dispensation to create a university. After 365 years, the university is closed in 1798, but re-established 172 years later in 1970. March 17 – An heir to the throne of Scotland is born to Queen Margaret and King James III. Prince James of the House of Stewart will become King James IV at the age of 15 in 1488. April–June [edit] April 5 – Philip I, leader of the Russian Orthodox Church as Patriarch of Moscow since 1464, dies after a reign of almost nine years. May 7 – Pope Sixtus IV appoints eight clerics to the College of Cardinals, the most in his career, the most since December 18, 1439 when 17 were appointed by Pope Eugene IV. May 28 – The Earl of Oxford, commander of what remains of the Lancastrians during the Wars of the Roses against the Yorkists and King Edward IV of England, makes an unsuccessful attempt to land an army at Essex at the village of St Osyth. June 29 – Gerontius, Bishop of Kolomna is appointed as the new Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church. July–September [edit] July 10 – James II, King of Cyprus, dies after a reign of nine years. In that his widow, the Queen Consort Catherine, is eight months pregnant with the couple's son, she becomes Queen Regent and the throne is deemed to remain vacant until the child is born. July 27 – René II, Count of Vaudémont becomes the new Duke of Lorraine, at the time an independent principality within the Holy Roman Empire, upon the death of his cousin, Nicholas I. after his mother, the Duchess Yolande gives up her rights to the throne. August 6 – King James III of Cyprus becomes the de jure monarch of Cyprus from the moment he is born, 27 days after the death of his father, King James II, although the rule of Cyprus is carried out by his mother, Catherine, Queen regent.[3] King James III lives for only one year and 20 days before dying on August 26, 1474.[4] August 11 – At the Battle of Otlukbeli, Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II defeats the White Sheep Turkmens, led by Uzun Hasan.[5] August 13 – Nicolò Marcello is elected as the new Doge of Venice following the July 28 death of Nicolo Tron. September 7 – In Germany, Gerhard VII, Duke of Jülich-Berg destroys the Tomburg Castle near Wormersdorf in what is now the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The one-day shelling of the castle with cannons takes place after a dispute with the Lord of Tomburg, Friedrich von Sombreff. The castle is never rebuilt and the ruins remain more than 550 years later.[6] September 30 – The Earl of Oxford, John de Vere, seizes St Michael's Mount in Cornwall and defends it for the next five months against 6,000 troops of King Edward IV.[7] The Trier Conference begins in the German city of Trier as Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor and Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy make a grand entry into the city of Trier for a meeting of central European leaders to respond to the threat of an invasion by the Ottoman Empire.[8] October–December [edit] October 1 – Johannes Hennon publishes the medical treatise Commentarii in Aristotelis libros Physicorum. October 7 – At Trier, Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, hosts an elaborate banquet for the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II and various prince-electors of the electorates within the Empire, ostensibly to work towards a common union of nations to begin a new crusade against the Ottomans, but offends most of his guests because of his arrogant ambition. October 18 – Albert IV, Duke of Bavaria becomes the first of the guests to walk out of the Duke of Burgundy banquet. October 31 – The Trier Conference breaks up after Charles the Bold fails to persuade the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick to help Charles become King of the Romans or to enter into an alliance against King Loouis XI of France. Frederick II instead proposes an alliance between the Empire, Burgundy, and France. Charles threatens to leave unless he can secure an alliance by a treaty marriage.[9] November 4 – The negotiators for Burgundy and the Holy Roman Empire tentatively agree on creating a Kingdom of Burgundy, ruled by Charles the Bold, that would become a member of the Empire and that would include Burgundy, Holland, Luxembourg, Savoy, Lorraine and other parts of what are now the Netherlands, Belgium and France.[10] A coronation ceremony for Charles as King of Burgundy is tentatively scheduled to take place on November 25. November 20 – The Battle of Vodna Stream, near Râmnicu Sărat, ends after two days in what is now Romania, Stephen the Great, Prince of Moldavia, routs the army of Wallachia, commanded by Prince Radu the Handsome. Prince Radu then flees to Dâmbovița.[11] November 23 – Prince Stephen of Moldavia begins the siege of Dâmbovița Fortress, where Wallachia's Prince Radu has taken refuge in a war between the two monarchs. Prince Radu escapes during the night, leaving behind his wife, his daughter and his treasury, and the fortress surrenders the next day.[11] November 25 – On the day set for the scheduled coronation at Trier of Charles the Bold as King of Burgundy, Charles learns that the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick had changed his mind and left overnight, and that the ceremony will never take place.[9] December 7 – The first-known printed book about child care, Kinderbüchlein, is published by German physician Bartholomäus Metlinger.[12] December 23 – Radu II returns as Prince of Wallachia one month after having been deposed briefly by Basarab the Old. Date unknown [edit] 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. The ruler of Tlatelolco is killed and replaced by a military governor; Tlatelolco loses its independence. Possible discovery of the island of "Bacalao" (possibly Newfoundland off North A…