1474

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century 15th century 16th century
Decades:	1450s 1460s 1470s 1480s 1490s
Years:	1471 1472 1473 1474 1475 1476 1477

1474 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1474 MCDLXXIV
Ab urbe condita	2227
Armenian calendar	923 ԹՎ ՋԻԳ
Assyrian calendar	6224
Balinese saka calendar	1395–1396
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 (Water Snake) 4171 or 3964     — to — 甲午年 (Wood Horse) 4172 or 3965
Coptic calendar	1190–1191
Discordian calendar	2640
Ethiopian calendar	1466–1467
Hebrew calendar	5234–5235
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1530–1531
- Shaka Samvat	1395–1396
- Kali Yuga	4574–4575
Holocene calendar	11474
Igbo calendar	474–475
Iranian calendar	852–853
Islamic calendar	878–879
Japanese calendar	Bunmei 6 (文明６年)
Javanese calendar	1390–1391
Julian calendar	1474 MCDLXXIV
Korean calendar	3807
Minguo calendar	438 before ROC 民前438年
Nanakshahi calendar	6
Thai solar calendar	2016–2017
Tibetan calendar	阴水蛇年 (female Water-Snake) 1600 or 1219 or 447     — to — 阳木马年 (male Wood-Horse) 1601 or 1220 or 448

Year 1474 (MCDLXXIV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

• February – The Treaty of Utrecht puts an end to the Anglo-Hanseatic War.
• March 19 – The Senate of the Republic of Venice enacts the Venetian Patent Statute, one of the earliest patent systems in the world. 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. This is considered the first modern patent system.
• December 12 – Upon the death of Henry IV of Castile, a civil war ensues between his designated successor Isabella I of Castile, and her niece Juana, who is supported by her husband, Afonso V of Portugal. Isabella wins the civil war after a lengthy struggle, when her husband, the newly crowned Ferdinand II of Aragon, comes to her aid.

Date unknown

• Marsilio Ficino completes his book Theologia Platonica (Platonic Theology).
• Axayacatl defeats the Matlatzinca of the Toluca Valley.

Births

• January 7 – Thihathura II of Ava (d. 1501)
• 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 7 – Bernhard III, Margrave of Baden-Baden (d. 1536)
• October 13 – Mariotto Albertinelli, High Renaissance Italian painter of the Florentine school (d. 1515)
• December 24 – Bartolomeo degli Organi, Italian musician (d. 1539)
• date unknown
  • Anacaona, Taino queen and poet (d. 1503)
  • Juan Diego, Mexican Catholic saint (d. 1548)
  • Giacomo Pacchiarotti, Italian painter (d. 1539 or 1540)
  • Cuthbert Tunstall, English bishop and diplomat (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)
  • Stephen Hawes, English poet (d. c. 1521)
  • Sir John Seymour, English courtier (d. 1536)
  • Perkin Warbeck, pretender to the throne of England (d. 1499)

Deaths

• April 30 – Queen Gonghye, Korean royal consort (b. 1456)
• May 4 – Alain de Coëtivy, Catholic cardinal (b. 1407)
• May 11 – John Stanberry, Bishop of Hereford
• August 26 – James III of Cyprus (b. 1473)
• November – William Canynge, English merchant (b. c. 1399)
• 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)
  • Antoinette de Maignelais, French royal favorite (b. 1434)
  • Gendun Drup, 1st Dalai Lama (b. 1391)
• probable
  • Walter Frye, English composer
  • Jehan de Waurin, French chronicler