A painting of Vlad the Impaler, who was killed on the march to Bucharest, probably before the end of December.
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| Gregorian calendar | 1476 MCDLXXVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2229 |
| Armenian calendar | 925 ԹՎ ՋԻԵ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6226 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1397–1398 |
| Bengali calendar | 883 |
| Berber calendar | 2426 |
| English Regnal year | 15 Edw. 4 – 16 Edw. 4 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2020 |
| Burmese calendar | 838 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6984–6985 |
| Chinese calendar | 乙未年 (Wood Goat) 4173 or 3966 — to — 丙申年 (Fire Monkey) 4174 or 3967 |
| Coptic calendar | 1192–1193 |
| Discordian calendar | 2642 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1468–1469 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5236–5237 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1532–1533 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1397–1398 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4576–4577 |
| Holocene calendar | 11476 |
| Igbo calendar | 476–477 |
| Iranian calendar | 854–855 |
| Islamic calendar | 880–881 |
| Japanese calendar | Bunmei 8 (文明８年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1392–1393 |
| Julian calendar | 1476 MCDLXXVI |
| Korean calendar | 3809 |
| Minguo calendar | 436 before ROC 民前436年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 8 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2018–2019 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴木羊年 (female Wood-Goat) 1602 or 1221 or 449 — to — 阳火猴年 (male Fire-Monkey) 1603 or 1222 or 450 |
Year 1476 (MCDLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
- March 1 – Battle of Toro (War of the Castilian Succession): Although militarily inconclusive, this ensures the Catholic Monarchs the Crown of Castile, forming the basis for modern-day Spain.
- March 2 – Battle of Grandson (Burgundian Wars): Swiss forces defeat Burgundy.[1]
- June 22 – Battle of Morat (Burgundian Wars): The Burgundians suffer a crushing defeat, at the hands of the Swiss.
- July 26 – Battle of Valea Albă (Moldavian–Ottoman Wars): The Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II defeats Stephen III of Moldavia.
- November 26 – Vlad the Impaler declares himself reigning Voivode (Prince) of Wallachia for the third and last time. He is killed on the march to Bucharest, probably before the end of December. His head is sent to his old enemy, Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II.
Date unknown
- Leonardo da Vinci is acquitted on charges of sodomy, after which he disappears from the historical record for two years.
- Axayacatl, sixth Tlatoani of Tenochtitlán, is defeated by the Tarascans of Michoacán.
- Goyghor Mosque is built by Musa ibn Haji Amir and his son, Majlis Alam.[2]
Births
- January 14 – Anne St Leger, Baroness de Ros, English baroness (d. 1526)[3]
- March 12 – Anna Jagiellon, Duchess of Pomerania, Polish princess (d. 1503)
- May 2 – Charles I, Duke of Münsterberg-Oels, Count of Kladsko, Governor of Bohemia and Silesia (d. 1536)
- May 19 – Helena of Moscow, Grand Duchess consort of Lithuania and Queen consort of Poland (d. 1513)
- June 28 – Pope Paul IV (d. 1559)[4]
- July 17 – Adrian Fortescue, English Roman Catholic martyr (d. 1539)[5]
- July 21
- Alfonso I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara (d. 1534)
- Anna Sforza, Italian noble (d. 1497)[6]
- July 22 – Zhu Youyuan, Ming Dynasty politician (d. 1519)
- August 28 – Kanō Motonobu, Japanese painter (d. 1559)
- September 11 – Louise of Savoy, French regent (d. 1531)[7]
- October 1 – Guy XVI, Count of Laval (d. 1531)
- October 26 – Yi Gi, Korean philosopher (d. 1552)
- November 23 – Yeonsangun of Joseon, King of Korean Joseon Dynasty (d. 1506)
- December 13 – Lucy Brocadelli, Dominican tertiary and stigmatic (d. 1544)
- date unknown – Juan Sebastián Elcano, Spanish explorer (d. 1526)
Deaths
- January 14
- John de Mowbray, 4th Duke of Norfolk (b. 1444)
- Anne of York, Duchess of Exeter, Duchess of York, second child of Richard Plantagenet (b. 1439)
- March 1 – Imagawa Yoshitada, 9th head of the Imagawa clan (b. 1436)
- March 10 – Richard West, 7th Baron De La Warr (b. 1430)
- March – John I Ernuszt, Ban of Slavonia
- June 8 – George Neville, English archbishop and statesman (b. c. 1432)
- July 6 – Regiomontanus, German astronomer (b. 1436)
- September 8 – Jean II, Duke of Alençon, son of John I of Alençon and Marie of Brittany (b. 1409)
- November 28 – James of the Marches, Franciscan friar
- December
- Vlad III the Impaler, Prince of Wallachia (b. 1431)[8]
- Isabel Neville, Duchess of Clarence, English noblewoman (b. 1451)[9]
- December 12 – Frederick I, Elector Palatine (b. 1425)
- December 26 – Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan (assassinated) (b. 1444)
- Clara Hätzlerin, German scribe (b. 1430)
References
- ↑ Anne Curry; Adrian R. Bell (September 2011). Soldiers, Weapons and Armies in the Fifteenth Century. Boydell & Brewer Ltd. p. 125. ISBN 978-1-84383-668-1.
- ↑ "বাংলাদেশের কয়েকটি প্রাচীন মসজিদ". Inqilab Enterprise & Publications Ltd. August 25, 2015. Archived from the original on September 23, 2015.
- ↑ Faris, David (1996). Plantagenet ancestry of seventeenth-century colonists: the descent from the later Plantagenet kings of England, Henry III, Edward I, Edward II, and Edward III, of emigrants from England and Wales to the North American colonies before 1701. Genealogical Pub Co. p. 324. ISBN 9780806315188.
- ↑ Cohn-Sherbok, Lavinia (September 2, 2003). Who's Who in Christianity. Routledge. p. 235. ISBN 9781134509560.
- ↑ The Lambeth Review: A Quarterly Magazine of Theology, Christian Politics, Literature, and Art. Vol. 1. London: R. J. Mitchell and Sons. March 1872.
- ↑ Brinton, Selwyn (1909). The Renaissance in Italian Art: A Series in Nine Parts. Vol. 5. G. Bell & Sons. p. 16.
- ↑ "Louise Of Savoy | French regent". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved September 21, 2020.
- ↑ Radu Florescu; Raymond T. McNally (1973). Dracula: A Biography of Vlad the Impaler, 1431-1476. Hawthorn Books. p. 115.
- ↑ Guild of the Holy Cross (Stratford-upon-Avon, England) (2007). The Register of the Guild of the Holy Cross, St Mary and St John the Baptist, Stratford-upon-Avon. Dugdale Society. p. 315. ISBN 978-0-85220-088-9.
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