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2nd millennium
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* 14th century
* 15th century
* 16th century

Decades

* 1450s
* 1460s
* 1470s
* 1480s
* 1490s

Years

* 1470
* 1471
* 1472
* 1473
* 1474
* 1475
* 1476

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1473 by topic

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1473 in various calendarsGregorian calendar| 1473
MCDLXXIII

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Ab urbe condita| 2226
Armenian calendar| 922
ԹՎ ՋԻԲ
Assyrian calendar| 6223
Balinese saka calendar| 1394–1395
Bengali calendar| 879–880
Berber calendar| 2423
English Regnal year| 12 Edw. 4 – 13 Edw. 4
Buddhist calendar| 2017
Burmese calendar| 835
Byzantine calendar| 6981–6982
Chinese calendar| 壬辰年 (Water Dragon)
4170 or 3963
— to —
癸巳年 (Water Snake)
4171 or 3964
Coptic calendar| 1189–1190
Discordian calendar| 2639
Ethiopian calendar| 1465–1466
Hebrew calendar| 5233–5234
Hindu calendars|
\- Vikram Samvat| 1529–1530
\- Shaka Samvat| 1394–1395
\- Kali Yuga| 4573–4574
Holocene calendar| 11473
Igbo calendar| 473–474
Iranian calendar| 851–852
Islamic calendar| 877–878
Japanese calendar| Bunmei 5
(文明５年)
Javanese calendar| 1389–1390
Julian calendar| 1473
MCDLXXIII
Korean calendar| 3806
Minguo calendar| 439 before ROC
民前439年
Nanakshahi calendar| 5
Thai solar calendar| 2015–2016
Tibetan calendar| ཆུ་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་
(male Water-Dragon)
1599 or 1218 or 446
— to —
ཆུ་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་
(female Water-Snake)
1600 or 1219 or 447

Year 1473 (MCDLXXIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar.

## Events

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### January–December

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* February 12 – The first complete Inside edition of Avicenna's The Canon of Medicine (Latin translation) is published in Milan.
* August 11 – Battle of Otlukbeli: Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II defeats the White Sheep Turkmens, led by Uzun Hasan.[1]

### Date unknown

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* Stephen the Great of Moldavia refuses to pay tribute to the Ottomans. This will attract an Ottoman invasion in 1475, resulting in the greatest defeat of the Ottomans so far.
* Axayacatl, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan, invades the territory of the neighboring Aztec city of Tlatelolco. The ruler of Tlatelolco is killed and replaced by a military governor; Tlatelolco loses its independence.
* Possible discovery of the island of "Bacalao" (possibly Newfoundland off North America) by Didrik Pining and João Vaz Corte-Real.
* The city walls and defensive moat are built in Celje, Slovenia.
* Almanach cracoviense ad annum 1474, an astronomical wall calendar, is published in Kraków, the oldest known printing in Poland.[2]
* Florentine physician Marsilio Ficino becomes a Catholic priest.
* Possible date – Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye is the first book to be printed in English, by William Caxton, in Bruges.

## Births

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Nicolaus Copernicus

* February 19 – Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish astronomer and mathematician (d. 1543)[3]
* February 25 – Al-Mutawakkil Yahya Sharaf ad-Din, Imam of the Zaidi state in Yemen (d. 1555)
* March 3 – Asakura Sadakage, 9th head of the Asakura clan (d. 1512)
* March 14 – Reinhard IV, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg (1500–1512) (d. 1512)
* March 16 – Henry IV, Duke of Saxony (1539–1541) (d. 1541)
* March 17 – King James IV of Scotland, King of Scots from 11 June 1488 to his death (d. 1513)[4]
* April 2 – John Corvinus, Hungarian noble (d. 1504)
* July 4 – Matilda of Hesse, German noblewoman (d. 1505)[5]
* July 6 – James III of Cyprus, son of James II of Cyprus and Catherine Cornaro, king of Cyprus (d. 1474)
* July – Maddalena de' Medici, Italian noble (d. 1528)[6]
* August 14 – Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury (d. 1541)
* August 17 – Richard, Duke of York, one of the Princes in the Tower (d. 1483)[7]
* August 25 – Margaret of Münsterberg, Duchess consort and regent of Anhalt (d. 1530)
* September 2 – Ercole Strozzi, Italian poet (d. 1508)[8]
* September 23 – Thomas Lovett III, High Sheriff of Northamptonshire (d. 1542)
* September 24 – Georg von Frundsberg, German knight and landowner (d. 1528)
* October 26 – Friedrich of Saxony, Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights (d. 1510)
* date unknown – Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, English Tudor politician (d. 1555)
* probable
* Jean Lemaire de Belges, Walloon poet and historian (d. 1525)
* Edward of Middleham, Prince of Wales, only son of Richard III of England (d. 1484)
* Cecilia Gallerani, principal mistress of Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan (d. 1536)

## Deaths

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* January 24 – Conrad Paumann, German composer (b. c. 1410)
* February 23 – Arnold, Duke of Guelders (b. 1410)
* April 3 – Alessandro Sforza, Italian condottiero (b. 1409)
* April 15 – Yamana Sōzen, Japanese daimyō and monk (b. 1404)
* May 8 – John Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, English politician (b. 1420)
* June 6 – Hosokawa Katsumoto, Japanese nobleman (b. 1430)
* June 28 – John Talbot, 3rd Earl of Shrewsbury, English nobleman (b. 1448)[9]
* July 10 – James II of Cyprus (b. c. 1440)
* November 26 – Diego Fernández de la Cueva, 1st Viscount of Huelma
* October – Contessina de' Bardi, politically active Florentine woman (b. 1390)
* December 24 – John Cantius, Polish scholar and theologian (b. 1390)
* date unknown
* Ewuare I, Oba of Benin
* Jean Jouffroy, French prelate and diplomat (b. c. 1412)
* Nicholas I, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1448)
* Sigismondo Polcastro, Paduan physician and natural philosopher (b. 1384)
* probable – Marina Nani, Venetian dogaressa (b. c. 1400)
* probable – Patriarch Gennadios II of Constantinople (b. c. 1400)

## References

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1. ^ Selcuk Aksin Somel (March 23, 2010). The A to Z of the Ottoman Empire. Scarecrow Press. p. 35\. ISBN 978-1-4617-3176-4.
2. ^ Carter, F. W. (2006). Trade and Urban Development in Poland: An Economic Geography of Cracow, from Its Origins to 1795. Cambridge University Press. p. 364. ISBN 9780521024389.
3. ^ "Copernicus born". History.com. A&E Television Networks. February 9, 2010. Retrieved June 18, 2019.
4. ^ Lynch, Michael, ed. (February 24, 2011). The Oxford Companion to Scottish history. Oxford University Press. p. 352\. ISBN 9780199693054.
5. ^ Krefeld Immigrants and Their Descendants. Vol. 13–17\. Links Genealogy Publications. 1996. p. 59.
6. ^ Grzonka, Michael (November 7, 2016). Luther and His Times. Lulu Press, Inc. p. 58\. ISBN 9781365515897.
7. ^ Arlene Okerlund (2005). Elizabeth Wydeville: The Slandered Queen. Tempus. p. 154\. ISBN 978-0-7524-3384-4.
8. ^ Giraldi, Lilio Gregorio (May 31, 2011). Grant, John N (ed.). Modern Poets. Harvard University Press. p. 336\. ISBN 9780674055759.
9. ^ E. B. Pryde; D. E. Greenway; S. Porter; I. Roy (February 23, 1996). Handbook of British Chronology. Cambridge University Press. p. 482\. ISBN 978-0-521-56350-5.

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