1475

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 is led at this time by Mehmed the Conqueror of Constantinople.
• July 4 – Burgundian Wars: Edward IV of England lands in Calais in support of the Duchy of Burgundy against France.^[1]
• August 29 – The Treaty of Picquigny ends the brief war between France and England.
• November 13 – Burgundian Wars: Battle on the Planta: Forces of the Old Swiss Confederacy are victorious against those of the Duchy of Savoy near Sion, Switzerland.
• November 14 – The original Landshut Wedding takes place, between George, Duke of Bavaria, and Hedwig Jagiellon.

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.^[2]
• The oldest recorded game of chess is played, between Francesco di Castellvi and Narciso Vinyoles.^{[citation needed]}
• Conrad of Megenberg's book, Buch der Natur, is published in Augsburg.^[3]

Births

Michelangelo Buonarroti

• January 9 – Crinitus, Italian humanist (d. 1507)
• January 29 – Giuliano Bugiardini, Italian painter (d. 1577)
• February 25 – Edward Plantagenet, 17th Earl of Warwick, last male member of the House of York (d. 1499)
• March 6 – Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian sculptor (d. 1564)
• March 12 – Luca Gaurico, Italian astrologer (d. 1558)
• March 30 – Elisabeth of Culemborg, German noble (d. 1555)
• June 29 – Beatrice d'Este (d. 1497)
• September 6
  • Artus Gouffier, Lord of Boissy, French nobleman and politician (d. 1519)
  • Sebastiano Serlio, Italian Mannerist architect (d. 1554)
• September 13 – Cesare Borgia, illegitimate son of Pope Alexander VI (approximate date; d. 1507)
• October 20 – Giovanni di Bernardo Rucellai, Renaissance man of letters (d. 1525)
• November 2 – Anne of York, Fifth daughter of King Edward IV of England and Elizabeth Woodville (d. 1511)
• November 28 – Anne Shelton, elder sister of Thomas Boleyn (d. 1555)
• 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 Gringoire, French poet and playwright (d. 1538)
  • Filippo de Lurano, Italian composer (d. 1520)
  • John Stokesley, English prelate (d. 1539)
  • Gunilla Bese, Finnish noble and fiefholder (d. 1553)

Deaths

• March – Simon of Trent, Italian saint, subject of a blood libel
• March 10 – Richard West, 7th Baron De La Warr (b. 1430)
• March 20 – Georges Chastellain, Burgundian chronicler and poet
• 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
  • 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)

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