1474
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This article is about the year 1474.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 14th century – 15th century – 16th century |
| Decades: | 1440s 1450s 1460s – 1470s – 1480s 1490s 1500s |
| Years: | 1471 1472 1473 – 1474 – 1475 1476 1477 |
| 1474 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 |
| 1474 in poetry |
| Gregorian calendar | 1474 MCDLXXIV |
| Ab urbe condita | 2227 |
| Armenian calendar | 923 ԹՎ ՋԻԳ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6224 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -370–-369 |
| Bengali calendar | 881 |
| Berber calendar | 2424 |
| English Regnal year | 13 Edw. 4 – 14 Edw. 4 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2018 |
| Burmese calendar | 836 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6982–6983 |
| Chinese calendar | 癸巳年十二月十四日 (4110/4170-12-14) — to —
甲午年十一月廿三日(4111/4171-11-23) |
| Coptic calendar | 1190–1191 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1466–1467 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5234–5235 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1530–1531 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1396–1397 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4575–4576 |
| Holocene calendar | 11474 |
| Iranian calendar | 852–853 |
| Islamic calendar | 878–879 |
| Japanese calendar | Bunmei 6 (文明6年) |
| Korean calendar | 3807 |
| Minguo calendar | 438 before ROC 民前438年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2017 |
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Year 1474 (MCDLXXIV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
[edit] Events
[edit] January–December
- December 12 – Upon the death of Henry IV of Castile, a civil war ensues between his designated successor Isabella I of Castile and her sister Juana, who is supported by her husband, Alfonso V of Portugal. Isabella wins the civil war after a lengthy struggle when her husband, Ferdinand II of Aragon, the newly crowned king of Aragon, comes to her aid.
[edit] Date unknown
- Marsilio Ficino finishes his work on "Platonic Theology".
- The Republic of Venice enacts a decree that new and inventive devices, once put into practice, have to be communicated to the Republic to obtain the right to prevent others from using them, the first modern patent system.[1]
[edit] Births
- March 1 – Angela Merici, Italian religious leader and saint (d. 1540)
- May 18 – Isabella d'Este, Marquise of Mantua (d. 1539)
- September 8 – Ludovico Ariosto, Italian poet (d. 1533)
- October 13 – Mariotto Albertinelli, Italian painter (d. 1515)
- date unknown
- Juan Diego, Mexican Catholic saint (d. 1548)
- Giacomo Pacchiarotti, Italian painter (d. 1539 or 1540)
- Cuthbert Tunstall, English church leader (d. 1559)
- Humphrey Kynaston, English highwayman (d. 1534)
- probable
- Sebastian Cabot, Venetian explorer (d. c.1557)
- Edward Guilford, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports of England (d. 1534)
- Sir John Seymour, English courtier (d. 1536)
- Perkin Warbeck, pretender to the throne of England (d. 1499)
- Katerina Petrova, (Katherine Pierce), second Petrova doppelganger
[edit] Deaths
- November 27 – Guillaume Dufay, Flemish composer (b. 1397)
- December 11 – King Henry IV of Castile (b. 1425)
- date unknown
- Gomes Eannes de Azurara, Portuguese chronicler (b. c. 1410)
- William Canynge, English merchant (b. c. 1399)
- James III of Cyprus (b. 1473)
- Gendun Drup, 1st Dalai Lama (b. 1391)
- probable
- Walter Frye, English composer
- Jehan de Waurin, French chronicler
[edit] References
- ^ Schippel, Helmut (2001). "Die Anfänge des Erfinderschutzes in Venedig". In Lindgren, Uta (Hrsg.). Europäische Technik im Mittelalter, 800 bis 1400: Tradition und Innovation (4. ed.). Berlin: Wolfgang Pfaller. pp. 539–550. ISBN 3-7861-1748-9. http://www.wolfgang-pfaller.de/venedig.htm.
