Editing 1475

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{{C15 year in topic}}Year '''1475''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MCDLXXV]]''') was a [[common year starting on Sunday]] of the [[Julian calendar]].

== Events ==
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=== January&ndash;December ===
* [[January 10]] &ndash; [[Battle of Vaslui]] ([[Moldavian–Ottoman Wars]]): [[Stephen III of Moldavia]] defeats the [[Ottoman Empire]], which is led at this time by [[Mehmed the Conqueror]] of Constantinople.
* [[July 4]] &ndash; [[Burgundian Wars]]: [[Edward IV of England]] lands in [[Calais]], in support of the [[Duchy of Burgundy]] against France.<ref name="Cassell's Chronology">{{cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|url=https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will|url-access=registration|location=London|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|pages=[https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/185 185–187]}}</ref>
* [[August 29]] &ndash; The [[Treaty of Picquigny]] ends the brief war between France and England.
* [[November 13]] &ndash; Burgundian Wars &ndash; [[Battle on the Planta]]: Forces of the [[Old Swiss Confederacy]] are victorious against those of the [[Duchy of Savoy]], near [[Sion, Switzerland]].
* [[November 14]] &ndash; The original [[Landshut Wedding]] takes place, between [[George, Duke of Bavaria]], and [[Hedwig Jagiellon, Duchess of Bavaria|Hedwig Jagiellon]].
* [[December]] &ndash; The [[Principality of Theodoro]] falls to the [[Ottoman Empire]],<ref>{{Cite book |last=Vasiliev |first=Alexander A. |url=http://archive.org/details/Vasiliev1936Goths |title=The Goths in the Crimea |year=1936 |location=Cambridge, MA |pages=259 |language=en}}</ref> arguably taking with it the final territorial remnant of the successor to the [[Roman Kingdom]] after nearly 2,228 years of Roman civilization since the legendary [[Founding of Rome]] in [[753 BC]].

===Date unknown===
* ''[[Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye]]'' is the first book to be printed in [[English language|English]], by [[William Caxton]] in [[Bruges]] (or 1473–74?).
* [[Rashi]]'s commentary on the [[Torah]] is the first dated book to be printed in [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]], in [[Reggio di Calabria]].<ref>{{cite web|title=The Earliest Printed Book in Hebrew|url=http://menachemmendel.net/blog/2007/04/11/the-earliest-printed-book-in-hebrew/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210827093605/http://menachemmendel.net/blog/2007/04/11/the-earliest-printed-book-in-hebrew/|url-status=usurped|archive-date=August 27, 2021|first=Menachem|last=Mendel|year=2007|access-date=2011-12-09}}</ref>
* [[Conrad of Megenberg]]'s book, ''Buch der Natur'', is published in [[Augsburg]].<ref name="WDL3158">{{cite web |url = http://www.wdl.org/en/item/3158/ |title = Book of Nature |website = [[World Digital Library]] |date = 2013-08-07 |access-date = 2013-08-30 }}</ref>
* In Wallachia, [[Radu cel Frumos]] loses the throne (for the last time), and is again replaced by [[Basarab Laiotă]].</onlyinclude>

== Births ==
[[File:Michelango Portrait by Volterra.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Michelangelo Buonarroti]]]]
* [[January 9]] &ndash; [[Crinitus]], Italian humanist (d. [[1507]])
* [[January 29]] &ndash; [[Giuliano Bugiardini]], Italian painter (d. [[1555]])
* [[February 25]] &ndash; [[Edward Plantagenet, 17th Earl of Warwick]], last male member of the House of York (d. [[1499]])
* [[March 6]] &ndash; [[Michelangelo|Michelangelo Buonarroti]], Italian sculptor (d. [[1564]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Barbara A. Somervill|title=Michelangelo: Sculptor and Painter|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AD9SAcJ55_0C&pg=PA102|date=February 2008|publisher=Capstone|isbn=978-0-7565-1060-2|pages=102}}</ref>
* [[March 12]] &ndash; [[Luca Gaurico]], Italian astrologer (d. [[1558]])
* [[March 30]] &ndash; [[Elisabeth of Culemborg]], German noble (d. [[1555]])
* [[June 29]] &ndash; [[Beatrice d'Este]], duchess of Bari and Milan (d. [[1497]])
* [[September 6]]
** [[Artus Gouffier, Lord of Boissy]], French nobleman and politician (d. [[1519]])
** [[Sebastiano Serlio]], Italian Mannerist architect (d. [[1554]])
* [[September 8]] &ndash; [[John Stokesley]], English prelate (d. [[1539]])<ref>{{cite ODNB |title=Stokesley, John (1475–1539), bishop of London |url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-26563 |year=2004 |access-date=26 October 2021 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/26563|isbn=978-0-19-861412-8 }}</ref>
* [[September 13]] or April [[1476]] &ndash; [[Cesare Borgia]], illegitimate son of [[Pope Alexander VI]] (approximate date; d. [[1507]])
* [[October 20]] &ndash; [[Giovanni di Bernardo Rucellai]], Italian Renaissance man of letters (d. [[1525]])
* [[November 2]] &ndash; [[Anne of York (daughter of Edward IV)|Anne of York]], seventh child of King Edward IV of England and Elizabeth Woodville (d. [[1511]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Levin |first1=Carole |last2=Bertolet |first2=Anna Riehl |last3=Carney |first3=Jo Eldridge |title=A Biographical Encyclopedia of Early Modern Englishwomen: Exemplary Lives and Memorable Acts, 1500-1650 |date=3 November 2016 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-1-315-44071-2 |page=275 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kDglDwAAQBAJ&dq=Anne+of+York+2+november+1475+1511&pg=PA275 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[November 28]] &ndash; [[Anne Shelton (courtier)|Anne Shelton]], elder sister of Thomas Boleyn (d. [[1556]])
* [[December 11]] &ndash; [[Pope Leo X]] (d. [[1521]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Leo X {{!}} pope |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Leo-X |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=1 December 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[December 24]] &ndash; [[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''
** [[Thomas West, 9th Baron De La Warr]] (d. [[1554]])
** [[Margaret Drummond (mistress)|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]])
** [[Gunilla Bese]], Finnish noble and fiefholder (d. [[1553]])

== Deaths ==
* [[January]] &ndash; [[Radu cel Frumos]], Voivoid of Wallachia (b. c. [[1437]])
* [[February 3]] &ndash; [[John IV, Count of Nassau-Siegen]] (b. [[1410]])
* [[March]] &ndash; [[Simon of Trent]], Italian saint, subject of a [[blood libel]]
* [[March 20]] &ndash; [[Georges Chastellain]], Burgundian chronicler and poet<ref>{{cite book|title=A New Survey of Universal Knowledge|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SpsbqwOe0fQC|year=1952|page=313| isbn=9780690841152 | last1=Ogg | first1=Oscar | publisher=Crowell }}</ref>
* [[May 20]] &ndash; [[Alice Chaucer, Duchess of Suffolk]] (born c.1404)<ref>{{cite book|author=Thelma Anna Leese|title=Blood Royal: Issue of the Kings and Queens of Medieval England, 1066-1399: the Normans and Plantagenets|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OvscAAAAYAAJ|year=1996|publisher=Heritage Books|isbn=978-0-7884-0525-9|page=302}}</ref>
* [[June 13]] &ndash; [[Joan of Portugal]], Queen of Castile (b. [[1439]])
* [[September 6]] &ndash; [[Adolph II of Nassau]], Archbishop of Mainz (b. c. [[1423]])
* [[December 10]] &ndash; [[Paolo Uccello]], Italian painter (b. [[1397]])
* ''date unknown''
** [[Theodorus Gaza]], Greek scholar, one of the leaders of the revival of learning in the 15th century (b. c. [[1400]])
** [[Theodosius, Metropolitan of Moscow]]
** [[Masuccio Salernitano]], Italian poet (b. [[1410]])

== References ==
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