Editing 1477 (section)

== Events ==
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=== January&ndash;December ===
* [[January 5]] &ndash; [[Battle of Nancy]]: [[Charles the Bold]] of [[Duchy of Burgundy|Burgundy]] is again defeated, and this time is killed; this marks the end of the [[Burgundian Wars]].<ref name="Prokhorov1973">{{cite book|author=Aleksandr Mikhaĭlovich Prokhorov|title=Great Soviet Encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x1wNAQAAMAAJ|year=1973|publisher=Macmillan|page=226}}</ref>
* [[February]]? &ndash; Volcano [[Bardarbunga]] erupts in Iceland, with a [[VEI]] of 6.
* [[February 11]] &ndash; [[Mary of Burgundy]], the daughter of [[Charles of Burgundy|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 have been abolished by the decrees of the dukes of Burgundy, in their efforts to create in the [[Low Countries]] a centralized state.
* [[February 27]] &ndash; [[Uppsala University]] is founded, becoming the first university in [[Sweden]] and all of Scandinavia.<ref>{{cite book|author=Sten Lindroth|title=A History of Uppsala University 1477-1977|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KM0kAAAAMAAJ|year=1976|publisher=Almqvist & Wiksell international |isbn=978-91-506-0081-0|page=6}}</ref>
* [[August 19]] &ndash; [[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.<ref>{{cite book|first=Heinz-Dieter|last=Heimann|title=Die Habsburger: Dynastie und Kaiserreiche|year=2001|isbn=3-406-44754-6|pages=38–45|publisher=C.H.Beck }}</ref>
* [[November 18]] &ndash; [[William Caxton]] produces [[Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers|Earl Rivers]]' translation into English of ''[[Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers|Dictes or Sayengis of the Philosophres]]'', at his press in [[Westminster]], the first full-length book printed in England on a printing press.<ref name="Pocket On This Day">{{cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-14-102715-0|year=2006}}</ref>

===Undated===
* [[Ivan III of Russia]] marches against the [[Novgorod Republic]], marking the beginning of [[Russian Colonialism]].
* [[Giovanni Pico della Mirandola]] starts to study [[canon law]], at the [[University of Bologna]].
* [[Thomas Norton (alchemist)]] writes ''Ordinall of Alchemy''.
* The first edition of ''[[The Travels of Marco Polo]]'' is printed.</onlyinclude>