1477

The situation of 1477, with Calais, the English Pale and neighboring counties.
January 5: Burgundy is defeated at the Battle of Nancy and the Duke Charles is killed along with most of his troops.
1477 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1477
MCDLXXVII
Ab urbe condita2230
Armenian calendar926
ԹՎ ՋԻԶ
Assyrian calendar6227
Balinese saka calendar1398–1399
Bengali calendar883–884
Berber calendar2427
English Regnal year16 Edw. 4 – 17 Edw. 4
Buddhist calendar2021
Burmese calendar839
Byzantine calendar6985–6986
Chinese calendar丙申年 (Fire Monkey)
4174 or 3967
    — to —
丁酉年 (Fire Rooster)
4175 or 3968
Coptic calendar1193–1194
Discordian calendar2643
Ethiopian calendar1469–1470
Hebrew calendar5237–5238
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1533–1534
 - Shaka Samvat1398–1399
 - Kali Yuga4577–4578
Holocene calendar11477
Igbo calendar477–478
Iranian calendar855–856
Islamic calendar881–882
Japanese calendarBunmei 9
(文明9年)
Javanese calendar1393–1394
Julian calendar1477
MCDLXXVII
Korean calendar3810
Minguo calendar435 before ROC
民前435年
Nanakshahi calendar9
Thai solar calendar2019–2020
Tibetan calendarམེ་ཕོ་སྤྲེ་ལོ་
(male Fire-Monkey)
1603 or 1222 or 450
    — to —
མེ་མོ་བྱ་ལོ་
(female Fire-Bird)
1604 or 1223 or 451

Year 1477 (MCDLXXVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–March

  • January 5 – At the Battle of Nancy in France, Charles the Bold of Duke of Burgundy, who had begun the siege of the capital of the Duchy of Lorraine on October 22, is forced to retreat from a larger force of troops from Lorraine, Alsace and the Swiss Army. During the retreat, the Burgundians pursued and then surrounded by the Swiss. Charles is struck in the head by a halberd and killed, while most of the Burgundian troops are slaughtered.[1] The defeat brings an end to the Burgundian Wars.
  • February 11 – Mary of Burgundy, the daughter of Charles the Bold and the new Duches, 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 a centralized state in the Low Countries.
  • February 27Uppsala University is founded, becoming the first university in Sweden and all of Scandinavia.[2]
  • March 26 – Two months after the death in battle of the Duke of Burgundy, an uprising and rioting take place in Bruges, and 15 local officials, including former mayor Anselm Adornes, are arrested by Burgundian troops, though they are later released without being charged.

April–June

  • April 3 – William Hugonet, formerly the Chancellor of the Duchy of Burgundy during the reign of Charles the Bold, is beheaded in Ghent by citizens who had blamed him for having reduced their independence. Hugonet is executed along with the Marshal of Brabant, Guy of Brimeu (Lord Humbercourt) and the Burgundian treasurer Jan van Melle.[3]
  • May 10 – In England, John Stacy, Thomas Burdet and Thomas Blake are convicted of high treason after being charged with "imagining and compassing" the death of King Edward IV. Stacy and Burdet are hanged, drawn and quartered the next day.[4]
  • May 12Pope Sixtus IV grants a special dispensation for Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York, the three-year-old son of King Edward IV, is betrothed to 4-year-old Anne de Mowbray, 8th Countess of Norfolk, in a waiver of canon law that sets a minimum age for marriage as 14 for boys and 12 for girls. The children's wedding will take place on January 15, 1478.[5]
  • June 10 – Emperor Frederick II confirms his support of Vladislav Jagellonský as King of Bohemia, leading to Matthias Corvinus declaring war on the Holy Roman Empire.[6]

July–September

  • July 21 – The 1475 Treaty of Picquigny between the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of France, is extended by agreement between England's King Edward IV and France's King Louis XI, with a provision that the cessation of hostilities will continue for one year after the death of one of the two monarchs.Louis.[7]
  • August 4 – Martin Truchsess von Wetzhausen is elected as the new Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights to succeed the late Heinrich Reffle von Richtenberg as ruler of a few territories in Prussia.[8]
  • August 18 – Mary, Duchess of Burgundy, marries Prince Maximilian, son of the Holy Roman Emperor, in Ghent, bringing her Flemish and Burgundian lands into the Holy Roman Empire, and detaching them from France.[9]
  • September 14 – King Ferrante of Napoli marries Princess Juana, daughter of the Spanish King John II of Aragon and Navarre after being brought to Naples by King Ferrante's son Prince Alfonso, Duke of Calabria.[10]

October–December

Undated

Births

  • January 13 – Henry Percy, 5th Earl of Northumberland (d. 1527)
  • January 14 – Hermann of Wied, German Catholic archbishop (d. 1552)
  • January 16 – Johannes Schöner, German astronomer and cartographer (d. 1547)
  • January 25Anne of Brittany, sovereign duchess of Brittany, queen of Charles VIII of France (d. 1514)[16]
  • March 20 – Jerome Emser, German theologian (d. 1527)
  • June 22 – Thomas Grey, 2nd Marquess of Dorset, English noble (d. 1530)
  • July 4 – Johannes Aventinus, Bavarian historian and philologist (d. 1534)
  • July 12 – Jacopo Sadoleto, Italian cardinal (d. 1547)
  • September 1 – Bartolomeo Fanfulla, Italian mercenary (d. 1525)
  • September 19 – Ferrante d'Este, Ferrarese nobleman and condottiero (d. 1540)
  • September 21 – Matthäus Zell, German Lutheran pastor (d. 1548)
  • date unknown – István Báthory, Hungarian nobleman (d. 1534)
  • probable
    • Giorgione, painter in Italian High Renaissance (d. 1510)[17]
    • 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)[18]
    • Gerolamo Olgiati, Italian assassin (executed)[18]
    • Carlo Visconti, Italian assassin (executed)[18]
  • January 5Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy (in battle) (b. 1433)[1]
  • January 6 – Jean VIII, Count of Vendôme
  • January 15 – Adriana of Nassau-Siegen, consort of Count Philip I of Hanau-Münzenberg (b. 1449)
  • April 3 – William Hugonet, former chancellor of Burgundy (executed)
  • June 1 – Charlotte de Brézé, French countess (b. 1446)
  • June 27 – Adolf, Duke of Guelders and Count of Zutphen (1465–1471) (b. 1438)
  • August 4 – Jacques d'Armagnac, Duke of Nemours
  • August 11 – Latino Orsini, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1411)
  • December 19 – Maria of Mangup, Princess-consort of Moldavia

References

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  2. ^ Sten Lindroth (1976). A History of Uppsala University 1477-1977. Almqvist & Wiksell international. p. 6. ISBN 978-91-506-0081-0.
  3. ^ Dyer, Thomas Henry (1861). The History of Modern Europe: from the Fall of Constantinople in 1453 to the War in the Crimea in 1857. Spottiswoode and Co. p. 153.
  4. ^ Scofield, C. L. (1967). The Life and Reign of Edward the Fourth, King of England and of France and Lord of Ireland. Vol. II. London: Cass. p. 189. OCLC 310646653.
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  6. ^ Engel, Pál (2001). The Realm of St Stephen: A History of Medieval Hungary, 895–1526. I.B. Tauris Publishers. p. 306. ISBN 1-86064-061-3.
  7. ^ Scofield, C. L. (1923). The Life and Reign of Edward the Fourth. Vol. II. Longmans, Green and Co. pp. 191–194.
  8. ^ Bernhart Jähnig, "Martin Truchseß von Wetzhausen: (4.8.1477 - 3.1.1489)", in Die Hochmeister des Deutschen Ordens 1190-1994, ed. by Udo Arnold (Elwert: Marbug Publishing, 1998) p.147 ISBN 3-7708-1104-6
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  11. ^ Rudolph von Roth, ed., Urkunden zur Geschichte der Universität Tübingen aus den Jahren 1476 bis 1550 (Documents on the history of the University of Tübingen from the years 1476 to 1550)(Tübingen: H. Laupp, 1877) p.31 S. 31.
  12. ^ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
  13. ^ Kubinyi, András (2008). Matthias Rex. Balassi Kiadó. p. 98. ISBN 978-963-506-767-1.
  14. ^ E. Kovács, Péter (1990). Matthias Corvinus (in Hungarian). Officina Nova. p. 118. ISBN 963-7835-49-0.
  15. ^ Sansom, George (1961). A History of Japan, 1334–1615. Stanford University Press. p. 217. ISBN 0804705259. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
  16. ^ Kathleen Wellman (21 May 2013). Queens and Mistresses of Renaissance France. Yale University Press. p. 72. ISBN 978-0-300-19065-6.
  17. ^ Essential History of Art. Dempsey Parr. 2000. p. 63. ISBN 978-1-84084-952-3.
  18. ^ a b c Lauro Martines (24 April 2003). April Blood: Florence and the Plot against the Medici. Oxford University Press. p. 34. ISBN 978-0-19-988239-7.