1473
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 14th century – 15th century – 16th century |
| Decades: | 1440s 1450s 1460s – 1470s – 1480s 1490s 1500s |
| Years: | 1470 1471 1472 – 1473 – 1474 1475 1476 |
| 1473 by topic |
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| Arts and science |
| Architecture - Art |
| Politics |
| State leaders - Sovereign states |
| Birth and death categories |
| Births - Deaths |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories |
| Establishments - Disestablishments |
| Art and literature |
| 1473 in poetry |
| Gregorian calendar | 1473 MCDLXXIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2226 |
| Armenian calendar | 922 ԹՎ ՋԻԲ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6223 |
| Bengali calendar | 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) 4169 or 4109 — to — 癸巳年 (Water Snake) 4170 or 4110 |
| Coptic calendar | 1189–1190 |
| Discordian calendar | 2639 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1465–1466 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5233–5234 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1529–1530 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1395–1396 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4574–4575 |
| Holocene calendar | 11473 |
| Igbo calendar | 473–474 |
| Iranian calendar | 851–852 |
| Islamic calendar | 877–878 |
| Japanese calendar | Bunmei 5 (文明５年) |
| Julian calendar | 1473 MCDLXXIII |
| Korean calendar | 3806 |
| Minguo calendar | 439 before ROC 民前439年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2015–2016 |
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Year 1473 (MCDLXXIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
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, only and posthumous child by marriage of James II of Cyprus and Catherine Cornaro, King of Cyprus from birth (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)
- Yamana Sōzen, Japanese daimyo and monk (b. 1404)
- probable – Patriarch Gennadios II of Constantinople (b. c. 1400)
References
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