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1473 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1473; MCDLXXIII
Ab urbe condita	2226
Armenian calendar	922; ԹՎ ՋԻԲ
Assyrian calendar	6223
Balinese saka calendar	1394–1395
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); 4170 or 3963; — to —; 癸巳年 (Water Snake); 4171 or 3964
Coptic calendar	1189–1190
Discordian calendar	2639
Ethiopian calendar	1465–1466
Hebrew calendar	5233–5234
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1529–1530
- Shaka Samvat	1394–1395
- Kali Yuga	4573–4574
Holocene calendar	11473
Igbo calendar	473–474
Iranian calendar	851–852
Islamic calendar	877–878
Japanese calendar	Bunmei 5; (文明５年)
Javanese calendar	1389–1390
Julian calendar	1473; MCDLXXIII
Korean calendar	3806
Minguo calendar	439 before ROC; 民前439年
Nanakshahi calendar	5
Thai solar calendar	2015–2016
Tibetan calendar	阳水龙年; (male Water-Dragon); 1599 or 1218 or 446; — to —; 阴水蛇年; (female Water-Snake); 1600 or 1219 or 447

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

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

Events

January–December

February 12 – The first complete Inside edition of Avicenna's The Canon of Medicine (Latin translation) is published in Milan.
August 11 – Battle of Otlukbeli: Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II defeats the White Sheep Turkmens, led by Uzun Hasan.^[1]

Date unknown

Stephen the Great of Moldavia refuses to pay tribute to the Ottomans. This will attract an Ottoman invasion in 1475, resulting in the greatest defeat of the Ottomans so far.
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 the island of "Bacalao" (possibly Newfoundland off North America) by Didrik Pining and João Vaz Corte-Real.
The city walls and defensive moat are built in Celje, Slovenia.
Almanach cracoviense ad annum 1474, an astronomical wall calendar, is published in Kraków, the oldest known printing in Poland.^[2]
Florentine physician Marsilio Ficino becomes a Catholic priest.
Possible date – Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye is the first book to be printed in English, by William Caxton, in Bruges.

Births

February 19 – Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish astronomer and mathematician (d. 1543)^[3]
February 25 – Al-Mutawakkil Yahya Sharaf ad-Din, Imam of the Zaidi state in Yemen (d. 1555)
March 3 – Asakura Sadakage, 9th head of the Asakura clan (d. 1512)
March 14 – Reinhard IV, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg (1500–1512) (d. 1512)
March 16 – Henry IV, Duke of Saxony (1539–1541) (d. 1541)
March 17 – King James IV of Scotland, King of Scots from 11 June 1488 to his death (d. 1513)^[4]
April 2 – John Corvinus, Hungarian noble (d. 1504)
July 4 – Matilda of Hesse, German noblewoman (d. 1505)^[5]
July 6 – James III of Cyprus, son of James II of Cyprus and Catherine Cornaro, king of Cyprus (d. 1474)
July – Maddalena de' Medici, Italian noble (d. 1528)^[6]
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)^[7]
August 25 – Margaret of Münsterberg, Duchess consort and regent of Anhalt (d. 1530)
September 2 – Ercole Strozzi, Italian poet (d. 1508)^[8]
September 23 – Thomas Lovett III, High Sheriff of Northamptonshire (d. 1542)
September 24 – Georg von Frundsberg, German knight and landowner (d. 1528)
October 26 – Friedrich of Saxony, Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights (d. 1510)
date unknown – Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, English 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)
- Cecilia Gallerani, principal mistress of Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan (d. 1536)

Deaths

January 24 – Conrad Paumann, German composer (b. c. 1410)
February 23 – Arnold, Duke of Guelders (b. 1410)
April 3 – Alessandro Sforza, Italian condottiero (b. 1409)
April 15 – Yamana Sōzen, Japanese daimyō and monk (b. 1404)
May 8 – John Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, English politician (b. 1420)
June 6 – Hosokawa Katsumoto, Japanese nobleman (b. 1430)
June 28 – John Talbot, 3rd Earl of Shrewsbury, English nobleman (b. 1448)^[9]
July 10 – James II of Cyprus (b. c. 1440)
November 26 – Diego Fernández de la Cueva, 1st Viscount of Huelma
October – Contessina de' Bardi, politically active Florentine woman (b. 1390)
December 24 – John Cantius, Polish scholar and theologian (b. 1390)
date unknown
- Ewuare I, Oba of Benin
- Jean Jouffroy, French prelate and diplomat (b. c. 1412)
- Nicholas I, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1448)
- Sigismondo Polcastro, Paduan physician and natural philosopher (b. 1384)
probable – Marina Nani, Venetian dogaressa (b. c. 1400)
probable – Patriarch Gennadios II of Constantinople (b. c. 1400)

References

^ Selcuk Aksin Somel (March 23, 2010). The A to Z of the Ottoman Empire. Scarecrow Press. p. 35. ISBN 978-1-4617-3176-4.
^ Carter, F. W. (2006). Trade and Urban Development in Poland: An Economic Geography of Cracow, from Its Origins to 1795. Cambridge University Press. p. 364. ISBN 9780521024389.
^ "Copernicus born". History.com. A&E Television Networks. February 9, 2010. Retrieved June 18, 2019.
^ Lynch, Michael, ed. (February 24, 2011). The Oxford Companion to Scottish history. Oxford University Press. p. 352. ISBN 9780199693054.
^ Krefeld Immigrants and Their Descendants. Vol. 13–17. Links Genealogy Publications. 1996. p. 59.
^ Grzonka, Michael (November 7, 2016). Luther and His Times. Lulu Press, Inc. p. 58. ISBN 9781365515897.
^ Arlene Okerlund (2005). Elizabeth Wydeville: The Slandered Queen. Tempus. p. 154. ISBN 978-0-7524-3384-4.
^ Giraldi, Lilio Gregorio (May 31, 2011). Grant, John N (ed.). Modern Poets. Harvard University Press. p. 336. ISBN 9780674055759.
^ E. B. Pryde; D. E. Greenway; S. Porter; I. Roy (February 23, 1996). Handbook of British Chronology. Cambridge University Press. p. 482. ISBN 978-0-521-56350-5.

[1] Selcuk Aksin Somel (March 23, 2010). The A to Z of the Ottoman Empire. Scarecrow Press. p. 35. ISBN 978-1-4617-3176-4.

[2] Carter, F. W. (2006). Trade and Urban Development in Poland: An Economic Geography of Cracow, from Its Origins to 1795. Cambridge University Press. p. 364. ISBN 9780521024389.

[3] "Copernicus born". History.com. A&E Television Networks. February 9, 2010. Retrieved June 18, 2019.

[4] Lynch, Michael, ed. (February 24, 2011). The Oxford Companion to Scottish history. Oxford University Press. p. 352. ISBN 9780199693054.

[5] Krefeld Immigrants and Their Descendants. Vol. 13–17. Links Genealogy Publications. 1996. p. 59.

[6] Grzonka, Michael (November 7, 2016). Luther and His Times. Lulu Press, Inc. p. 58. ISBN 9781365515897.

[7] Arlene Okerlund (2005). Elizabeth Wydeville: The Slandered Queen. Tempus. p. 154. ISBN 978-0-7524-3384-4.

[8] Giraldi, Lilio Gregorio (May 31, 2011). Grant, John N (ed.). Modern Poets. Harvard University Press. p. 336. ISBN 9780674055759.

[9] E. B. Pryde; D. E. Greenway; S. Porter; I. Roy (February 23, 1996). Handbook of British Chronology. Cambridge University Press. p. 482. ISBN 978-0-521-56350-5.

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