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[[File:Vlad Ţepeş, the Impaler, Prince of Wallachia (1456-1462) (died 1477).jpg|200px|thumbnail|A painting of [[Vlad the Impaler]], who was killed on the march to Bucharest, probably before the end of December.]]
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{{C15 year in topic}}Year '''1476''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MCDLXXVI]]''') was a [[leap year starting on Monday]] of the [[Julian calendar]].

== Events ==
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=== January&ndash;December ===
* [[March 1]] &ndash; [[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]] &ndash; [[Battle of Grandson]] ([[Burgundian Wars]]): Swiss forces defeat [[Kingdom of Burgundy|Burgundy]].<ref>{{cite book|author1=Anne Curry|author2=Adrian R. Bell|title=Soldiers, Weapons and Armies in the Fifteenth Century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mN07G3w3lUwC&pg=PA125|date=September 2011|publisher=Boydell & Brewer Ltd|isbn=978-1-84383-668-1|pages=125}}</ref>
* [[June 22]] &ndash; [[Battle of Morat]] ([[Burgundian Wars]]): The [[Kingdom of Burgundy|Burgundians]] suffer a crushing defeat, at the hands of the Swiss.
* [[July 26]] &ndash; [[Battle of Valea Albă]] ([[Moldavian–Ottoman Wars]]): The Ottoman Sultan [[Mehmed II]] defeats [[Stephen III of Moldavia]].
* [[November 26]] &ndash; [[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]].<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.dailyinqilab.com/details/19365/%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%82%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A6%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B6%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B0-%E0%A6%95%E0%A7%9F%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%9F%E0%A6%BF-%E0%A6%AA%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%9A%E0%A7%80%E0%A6%A8-%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%9C%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A6-|title=বাংলাদেশের কয়েকটি প্রাচীন মসজিদ|publisher=Inqilab Enterprise & Publications Ltd|date=25 August 2015|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150923212401/http://www.dailyinqilab.com/details/19365/%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%82%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A6%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B6%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B0-%E0%A6%95%E0%A7%9F%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%9F%E0%A6%BF-%E0%A6%AA%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%9A%E0%A7%80%E0%A6%A8-%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%9C%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A6-|archive-date=23 September 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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== Births ==
* [[January 14]] &ndash; [[Anne St Leger, Baroness de Ros]], English baroness (d. [[1526]])<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H0BlAAAAMAAJ |title=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 |first=David |last=Faris |publisher=Genealogical Pub Co |year=1996 |pages=324 |isbn=9780806315188}}</ref>
* [[March 12]] &ndash; [[Anna Jagiellon, Duchess of Pomerania]], Polish princess (d. [[1503]])
* [[May 2]] &ndash; [[Charles I, Duke of Münsterberg-Oels]], Count of Kladsko, Governor of Bohemia and Silesia (d. [[1536]])
* [[May 19]] &ndash; [[Helena of Moscow]], Grand Duchess consort of Lithuania and Queen consort of Poland (d. [[1513]])
* [[June 28]] &ndash; [[Pope Paul IV]] (d. [[1559]])<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ln2BAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA235 |title=Who's Who in Christianity |first=Lavinia |last=Cohn-Sherbok |author-link=Lavinia Cohn-Sherbok |publisher=[[Routledge]] |date=2 September 2003 |page=235 |isbn=9781134509560}}</ref>
* [[July 17]] &ndash; [[Adrian Fortescue (martyr)|Adrian Fortescue]], English Roman Catholic martyr (d. [[1539]])<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gkEEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA74 |title=The Lambeth Review: A Quarterly Magazine of Theology, Christian Politics, Literature, and Art |date=March 1872 |issue=1 |volume=1 |location=London |publisher=R. J. Mitchell and Sons}}</ref>
* [[July 21]]
** [[Alfonso I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara]] (d. [[1534]])
** [[Anna Sforza]], Italian noble (d. [[1497]])<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YGhFAQAAMAAJ |title=The Renaissance in Italian Art: A Series in Nine Parts |volume=5 |first=Selwyn |last=Brinton |publisher=[[G. Bell & Sons]] |year=1909 |page=16}}</ref>
* [[July 22]] &ndash; [[Zhu Youyuan]], Ming Dynasty politician (d. [[1519]])
* [[August 28]] &ndash; [[Kanō Motonobu]], Japanese painter (d. [[1559]])
* [[September 11]] &ndash; [[Louise of Savoy]], French regent (d. [[1531]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Louise Of Savoy {{!}} French regent |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Louise-of-Savoy |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=21 September 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[October 1]] &ndash; [[Guy XVI de Laval|Guy XVI]], Count of Laval (d. [[1531]])
* [[October 26]] &ndash; [[Yi Gi]], Korean philosopher (d. [[1552]])
* [[November 23]] &ndash; [[Yeonsangun of Joseon]], King of Korean Joseon Dynasty (d. [[1506]])
* [[December 13]] &ndash; [[Lucy Brocadelli]], Dominican tertiary and stigmatic (d. [[1544]])
* ''date unknown'' &ndash; [[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]] &ndash; [[Imagawa Yoshitada]], 9th head of the [[Imagawa clan]] (b. [[1436]])
* [[March 10]] &ndash; [[Richard West, 7th Baron De La Warr]] (b. [[1430]])
* March &ndash; [[John I Ernuszt]], [[Ban of Slavonia]]
* [[June 8]] &ndash; [[George Neville (bishop)|George Neville]], English archbishop and statesman (b. c. [[1432]])
* [[July 6]] &ndash; [[Regiomontanus]], German astronomer (b. [[1436]])
* [[September 8]] &ndash; [[Jean II, Duke of Alençon]], son of John I of Alençon and Marie of Brittany (b. [[1409]])
* [[November 28]] &ndash; [[James of the Marches]], Franciscan friar
* December
** [[Vlad the Impaler|Vlad III the Impaler]], Prince of Wallachia (b. [[1431]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Radu Florescu|author2=Raymond T. McNally|title=Dracula: A Biography of Vlad the Impaler, 1431-1476|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oB9pAAAAMAAJ|year=1973|publisher=Hawthorn Books|page=115}}</ref>
** [[Isabel Neville, Duchess of Clarence]], English noblewoman (b. [[1451]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Guild of the Holy Cross (Stratford-upon-Avon, England)|title=The Register of the Guild of the Holy Cross, St Mary and St John the Baptist, Stratford-upon-Avon|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w_wWAQAAIAAJ|year=2007|publisher=Dugdale Society|isbn=978-0-85220-088-9|page=315}}</ref>
* [[December 12]] &ndash; [[Frederick I, Elector Palatine]] (b. [[1425]])
* [[December 26]] &ndash; [[Galeazzo Maria Sforza]], Duke of Milan (assassinated) (b. [[1444]])
* [[Clara Hätzlerin]], German scribe (b. [[1430]])

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