1475

This article is about the year 1475.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1440s  1450s  1460s  – 1470s –  1480s  1490s  1500s
Years:	1472 1473 1474 – 1475 – 1476 1477 1478

1475 by topic
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
1475 in poetry

1475 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1475 MCDLXXV
Ab urbe condita	2228
Armenian calendar	924 ԹՎ ՋԻԴ
Assyrian calendar	6225
Bahá'í calendar	-369–-368
Bengali calendar	882
Berber calendar	2425
English Regnal year	14 Edw. 4 – 15 Edw. 4
Buddhist calendar	2019
Burmese calendar	837
Byzantine calendar	6983–6984
Chinese calendar	甲午年十一月廿四日 (4111/4171-11-24) — to — 乙未年十二月初四日 (4112/4172-12-4)
Coptic calendar	1191–1192
Ethiopian calendar	1467–1468
Hebrew calendar	5235–5236
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1531–1532
- Shaka Samvat	1397–1398
- Kali Yuga	4576–4577
Holocene calendar	11475
Iranian calendar	853–854
Islamic calendar	879–880
Japanese calendar	Bunmei 7 (文明7年)
Korean calendar	3808
Minguo calendar	437 before ROC 民前437年
Thai solar calendar	2018

Year 1475 (MCDLXXV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

• January 10 – Battle of Vaslui: Stephen III of Moldavia defeats the Ottoman Empire, which was led at that time by Mehmed II, the conqueror of Constantinople.
• August 29— The Treaty of Picquigny ends a brief war between France and England.
• November – The Battle on the Planta takes place during the Burgundian Wars.

Date unknown

• Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye is the first book to be printed in English, by William Caxton in Bruges.
• Rashi's commentary on the Torah is the first dated book to be printed in Hebrew, in Reggio di Calabria.
• The Landshuter hochzeit takes place.
• The oldest recorded game of chess is played, between Francesco di Castellvi and Narciso Vinyoles.

Births

• February 25 – Edward, Earl of Warwick, last male member of the House of York (d. 1499)
• March 6 – Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian painter (d. 1564)
• September 6 – Sebastiano Serlio, Italian Mannerist architect (d. 1554)
• September 13 – Cesare Borgia, illegitimate son of Pope Alexander VI (approximate date; d. 1507)
• December 11 – Pope Leo X (d. 1521)
• December 24 – Thomas Murner, German satirist (d. c. 1537)
• date unknown
  • Valerius Anshelm, Swiss chronicler
  • Vasco Núñez de Balboa, Spanish conquistador (approximate date; d. 1519)
  • Gendun Gyatso, 2nd Dalai Lama (d. 1541)
• probable
  • Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón, Spanish explorer (d. 1526)
  • Thomas West, 9th Baron De La Warr (d. 1554)
  • Margaret Drummond, mistress of James IV of Scotland (d. 1502)
  • Pierre Gringore, French poet and playwright (d. 1538)
  • Filippo de Lurano, Italian composer (d. 1520)
  • Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conquistador (d. 1541)
  • John Stokesley, English prelate (d. 1539)

Deaths

• March – Simon of Trent, Italian saint, subject of a blood libel
• March 10 – Richard West, 7th Baron De La Warr (b. 1430)
• June 13 – Joan of Portugal, Queen of Castile (b. 1439)
• September 6 – Adolph II of Nassau, Archbishop of Mainz (b. c. 1423)
• December 10 – Paolo Uccello, Italian painter (b. 1397)
• date unknown
  • Georges Chastellain, Burgundian chronicler and poet
  • Radu cel Frumos, Prince of Wallachia (b. c. 1437)
  • Theodorus Gaza, one of the Greek scholars who were the leaders of the revival of learning in the 15th century (b. c. 1400)
  • Theodosius, Metropolitan of Moscow
  • Masuccio Salernitano, Italian poet (b. 1410)