Editing 1473 (section)

== Events ==
=== January&ndash;December ===
* [[February 12]] &ndash; The first complete Inside edition of [[Avicenna]]'s ''[[The Canon of Medicine]]'' ([[Latin]] translation) is published in [[Milan]].
* [[August 11]] &ndash; [[Battle of Otlukbeli]]: [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] Sultan [[Mehmed II]] defeats the [[White Sheep Turkmen]]s, led by [[Uzun Hasan]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Selcuk Aksin Somel|title=The A to Z of the Ottoman Empire|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UU8iCY0OZmcC&pg=PA35|date=23 March 2010|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-1-4617-3176-4|pages=35}}</ref>

=== Date unknown ===
* [[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 (altepetl)|Tlatelolco]]. The ruler of Tlatelolco is killed and replaced by a military governor; Tlatelolco loses its independence.
* Possible discovery of the island of "[[Bacalao (phantom island)|Bacalao]]" (possibly [[Newfoundland (island)|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]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Carter|first=F. W.|title=Trade and Urban Development in Poland: An Economic Geography of Cracow, from Its Origins to 1795|url=https://archive.org/details/tradeurbandevelo00cart|url-access=limited|date=2006|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9780521024389|page=[https://archive.org/details/tradeurbandevelo00cart/page/n385 364]}}</ref>
* Florentine physician [[Marsilio Ficino]] becomes a [[Catholic Church|Catholic]] priest.
* Possible date &ndash; ''[[Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye]]'' is the first book to be printed in English, by [[William Caxton]], in [[Bruges]].