1477

This article is about the year 1477.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1440s  1450s  1460s  – 1470s –  1480s  1490s  1500s
Years:	1474 1475 1476 – 1477 – 1478 1479 1480

1477 by topic
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Architecture - Art
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Births - Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments - Disestablishments
Art and literature
1477 in poetry

1477 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1477 MCDLXXVII
Ab urbe condita	2230
Armenian calendar	926 ԹՎ ՋԻԶ
Assyrian calendar	6227
Bahá'í calendar	-367–-366
Bengali calendar	884
Berber calendar	2427
English Regnal year	16 Edw. 4 – 17 Edw. 4
Buddhist calendar	2021
Burmese calendar	839
Byzantine calendar	6985–6986
Chinese calendar	丙申年十二月十七日 (4113/4173-12-17) — to — 丁酉年十一月廿七日 (4114/4174-11-27)
Coptic calendar	1193–1194
Ethiopian calendar	1469–1470
Hebrew calendar	5237–5238
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1533–1534
- Shaka Samvat	1399–1400
- Kali Yuga	4578–4579
Holocene calendar	11477
Igbo calendar
- Ǹrí Ìgbò	477–478
Iranian calendar	855–856
Islamic calendar	881–882
Japanese calendar	Bunmei 9 (文明9年)
Juche calendar	N/A (before 1912)
Julian calendar	1477    MCDLXXVII
Korean calendar	3810
Minguo calendar	435 before ROC 民前435年
Thai solar calendar	2020

The situation of 1477, with Calais, the English Pale and neighboring counties.

Year 1477 (MCDLXXVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

• 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 recover all the local and communal rights which had been abolished by the decrees of the dukes of Burgundy, in their efforts to create in the Low Countries a centralized state.
• February 27 – The Swedish University of Uppsala is founded, becoming the first university in Sweden and all of Scandinavia.
• August 18 – Mary of Burgundy marries Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor in Ghent, bringing her Flemish and Burgundian lands into the Holy Roman Empire and detaching them from France.
• August 19 – Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor marries Mary of Burgundy,
• November 18 – William Caxton produces Dictes or Sayengis of the Philosophres, the first English book printed on an English printing press.

Unknown dates

• Giovanni Pico della Mirandola starts to study canon law at University of Bologna.
• Thomas Norton (alchemist) writes Ordinall of Alchemy.
• First printed edition of The Travels of Marco Polo.
• Russian Colonialism begins.

Births

• January 14 – Hermann of Wied, German Catholic archbishop (d. 1552)
• January 16 – Johannes Schöner, German astronomer and cartographer (d. 1547)
• January 25 – Anne of Brittany, queen of Charles VIII of France (d. 1514)
• February 3 – Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham (d. 1521)
• March 20 – Jerome Emser, German theologian (d. 1527)
• July 4 – Johannes Aventinus, Bavarian historian and philologist (d. 1534)
• date unknown – István Báthory, Hungarian nobleman (d. 1534)
• probable
  • Giorgione, painter in Italian High Renaissance (d. 1510)
  • Girolamo del Pacchia, Italian painter (d. 1533)
  • Lambert Simnel, pretender to the throne of England (d. c. 1534)
  • Il Sodoma, Italian painter (d. 1549)
  • Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, English diplomat (d. 1539)

Deaths

• January 2
  • Franzone, assassin (executed)
  • Gerolamo Olgiati, assassin (executed)
  • Carlo Visconti, assassin (executed)
• January 5 – Charles, Duke of Burgundy (in battle) (b. 1433)
• January 6 – Jean VIII, Count of Vendôme
• August 4 – Jacques d'Armagnac, Duke of Nemours
• August 11 – Latino Orsini, cardinal (b. 1411)