1473

This article is about the year 1473.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1440s  1450s  1460s  – 1470s –  1480s  1490s  1500s
Years:	1470 1471 1472 – 1473 – 1474 1475 1476

1473 by topic
Arts and science
Architecture - Art
Politics
State leaders - Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births - Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments - Disestablishments
Art and literature
1473 in poetry

1473 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1473 MCDLXXIII
Ab urbe condita	2226
Armenian calendar	922 ԹՎ ՋԻԲ
Assyrian calendar	6223
Bengali calendar	880
Berber calendar	2423
English Regnal year	12 Edw. 4 – 13 Edw. 4
Buddhist calendar	2017
Burmese calendar	835
Byzantine calendar	6981–6982
Chinese calendar	壬辰年 (Water Dragon) 4169 or 4109     — to — 癸巳年 (Water Snake) 4170 or 4110
Coptic calendar	1189–1190
Discordian calendar	2639
Ethiopian calendar	1465–1466
Hebrew calendar	5233–5234
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1529–1530
- Shaka Samvat	1395–1396
- Kali Yuga	4574–4575
Holocene calendar	11473
Igbo calendar	473–474
Iranian calendar	851–852
Islamic calendar	877–878
Japanese calendar	Bunmei 5 (文明５年)
Julian calendar	1473 MCDLXXIII
Korean calendar	3806
Minguo calendar	439 before ROC 民前439年
Thai solar calendar	2015–2016

Year 1473 (MCDLXXIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

• February 12 – First complete printed edition of Avicenna's The Canon of Medicine (in Latin translation) published in Milan.
• August 11 – Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II defeats the White Sheep Turkmens led by Uzun Hasan at the Battle of Otlukbeli.

Date unknown

• Axayacatl, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan, invades the territory of the neighboring Aztec city of Tlatelolco. The ruler of Tlatelolco is killed and replaced by a military governor. Tlatelolco loses its independence.
• Possible discovery of Bacalao (possibly Newfoundland, North America) by Didrik Pining and João Vaz Corte-Real.
• The Almanach cracoviense ad annum 1474 is published.
• The city walls and defensive moat are built in Celje, Slovenia.
• Marsilio Ficino becomes a Catholic priest.
• Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye is the first book to be printed in English by William Caxton

Births

Nicolaus Copernicus

• February 19 – Nicolaus Copernicus, astronomer and mathematician (d. 1543)
• March 17 – King James IV of Scotland (d. 1513)
• August 14 – Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury (d. 1541)
• August 17 – Richard, Duke of York, one of the Princes in the Tower (d. 1483)
• September 24 – Georg von Frundsberg, German Knight and landowner (d. 1528)
• October 26 – Friedrich of Saxony (d. 1510)
• date unknown – Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, Tudor politician (d. 1555)
• probable
  • Jean Lemaire de Belges, Walloon poet and historian (d. 1525)
  • Edward of Middleham, Prince of Wales, only son of Richard III of England (d. 1484)

Deaths

• January 24 – Conrad Paumann, German composer (b. c. 1410)
• February 23 – Arnold, Duke of Gelderland (b. 1410)
• April 3 – Alessandro Sforza, Italian condottiero (b. 1409)
• May 8 – John Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, English politician (b. 1420)
• July 10 – James II of Cyprus (b. c. 1440)
• December 24 – John Cantius, Polish scholar and theologian (b. 1390)
• date unknown
  • Jean Jouffroy, French prelate and diplomat (b. c. 1412)
  • Hosokawa Katsumoto, Japanese nobleman (b. 1430)
  • Nicholas I, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1448)
  • Yamana Sōzen, Japanese daimyo and monk (b. 1404)
• probable – Patriarch Gennadios II of Constantinople (b. c. 1400)