1477
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Template:C15YearInTopicX Year 1477 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
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[edit] Events
- January 5 - Battle of Nancy - Charles the Bold of Burgundy is again defeated, and this time is killed. This marks the end of the Burgundian Wars.
- February 10 - Mary of Burgundy, the daughter of Charles the Bold, is forced by her disgruntled subjects to sign the "Great Privilege," by which the Flemish cities recovered all the local and communal rights which had been abolished by the arbitrary decrees of the dukes of Burgundy in their efforts to create in the Low Countries a centralized state.
- August 18 - Mary of Burgundy marries Maximilian I in Ghent, bringing her Flemish and Burgundian lands into the Holy Roman Empire and detaching them from France.
- The Swedish University of Uppsala is founded.
- November 18 - William Caxton produces "Dictes or Sayengis of the Philosophres", the first English book printed on a printing press.
[edit] Births
- January 14 - Hermann of Wied, German Catholic archbishop (died 1552)
- January 16 - Johannes Schöner, German astronomer and cartographer (died 1547)
- January 25 - Anne of Brittany, queen of Charles VIII of France (died 1514)
- February 3 - Edward Stafford (died 1521)
- March 20 - Jerome Emser, German theologian (d. 1527)
- July 4 - Johannes Aventinus, Bavarian historian and philologist (died 1534)
- date unknown
- István Báthory, Hungarian nobleman (died 1534)
- probable
- Giorgione, painter in Italian High Renaissance (d. 1510)
- Girolamo del Pacchia, Italian painter (died 1533)
- Lambert Simnel, pretender to the throne of England (died c. 1534)
- Il Sodoma, Italian painter (died 1549)
- Thomas Boleyn, English diplomat (died 1539)
[edit] Deaths
- January 2
- Franzone, assassin (executed)
- Gerolamo Olgiati, assassin (executed)
- Carlo Visconti, assassin (executed)
- January 5 - Charles (killed in battle) (born 1433)
- January 6 - Jean VIII
- August 4 - Jacques d'Armagnac
- August 11 - Latino Orsini, cardinal (born 1411)
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[edit] People of the year 1477 at Familypedia
4 people were born in 1477
1 children were born to the 1 women born in 1477
7 people died in 1477
179 people lived in 1477
[edit] Events of the year 1477 at Familypedia
3 people were married in 1477.
There were 0 military battles in 1477.
