Editing 1477

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{{C15 year in topic}}[[File:VlaanderenArtesie1477.png|thumb|The situation of 1477, with Calais, the English Pale and neighboring counties.]]Year '''1477''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MCDLXXVII]]''') was a [[common year starting on Wednesday]] of the [[Julian calendar]].

== 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>

== Births ==
* [[January 13]] &ndash; [[Henry Percy, 5th Earl of Northumberland]] (d. [[1527]])
* [[January 14]] &ndash; [[Hermann of Wied]], German Catholic archbishop (d. [[1552]])
* [[January 16]] &ndash; [[Johannes Schöner]], German astronomer and cartographer (d. [[1547]])
* [[January 25]] &ndash; [[Anne of Brittany]], sovereign duchess of Brittany, queen of [[Charles VIII of France]] (d. [[1514]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Kathleen Wellman|title=Queens and Mistresses of Renaissance France|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lGOIzDx2lycC&pg=PT72|date=21 May 2013|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=978-0-300-19065-6|pages=72}}</ref>
* [[March 20]] &ndash; [[Jerome Emser]], German theologian (d. [[1527]])
* [[June 22]] &ndash; [[Thomas Grey, 2nd Marquess of Dorset]], English noble (d. [[1530]])
* [[July 4]] &ndash; [[Johannes Aventinus]], Bavarian historian and philologist (d. [[1534]])
* [[July 12]] &ndash; [[Jacopo Sadoleto]], Italian cardinal (d. [[1547]])
* [[September 1]] &ndash; [[Bartolomeo Fanfulla]], Italian mercenary (d. [[1525]])
* [[September 19]] &ndash; [[Ferrante d'Este]], Ferrarese nobleman and condottiero (d. [[1540]])
* [[September 21]] &ndash; [[Matthäus Zell]], German Lutheran pastor (d. [[1548]])
* ''date unknown'' &ndash; [[István Báthory]], Hungarian nobleman (d. [[1534]])
* ''probable''
** [[Giorgione]], painter in Italian High Renaissance (d. [[1510]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Essential History of Art|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PBCpWhtI6xUC|year=2000|publisher=Dempsey Parr|isbn=978-1-84084-952-3|page=63}}</ref>
** [[Girolamo del Pacchia]], Italian painter (d. [[1533]])
** [[Lambert Simnel]], pretender to the throne of England (d. c. [[1534]])
** [[Il Sodoma]], Italian painter (d. [[1549]])
** [[Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire]], English diplomat (d. [[1539]])

== Deaths ==
* [[January 2]]
** [[Franzone]], Italian assassin (executed)<ref name="Martines2003">{{cite book|author=Lauro Martines|title=April Blood: Florence and the Plot against the Medici|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P5YgdfSxBREC&pg=PT34|date=24 April 2003|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-988239-7|pages=34}}</ref>
** [[Gerolamo Olgiati]], Italian assassin (executed)<ref name="Martines2003"/>
** [[Carlo Visconti]], Italian assassin (executed)<ref name="Martines2003"/>
* [[January 5]] &ndash; [[Charles the Bold]], [[Duke of Burgundy]] (in battle) (b. [[1433]])<ref name="Prokhorov1973"/>
* [[January 6]] &ndash; [[Jean VIII, Count of Vendôme]]
* [[January 15]] &ndash; [[Adriana of Nassau-Siegen]], consort of Count Philip I of Hanau-Münzenberg (b. [[1449]])
* [[April]] &ndash; [[William Hugonet]], former chancellor of Burgundy (executed)
* [[June 27]] &ndash; [[Adolf, Duke of Guelders]] and Count of Zutphen (1465–1471) (b. [[1438]])
* [[August 4]] &ndash; [[Jacques d'Armagnac, Duke of Nemours]]
* [[August 11]] &ndash; [[Latino Orsini]], Italian Catholic cardinal (b. [[1411]])
* [[December 19]] &ndash; [[Maria of Mangup]], Princess-consort of Moldavia
* ''June 1'' &ndash; [[Charlotte de Brézé]], French countess  (b. [[1446]])

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