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1473
Nezahualpilli becomes ruler of the city-state Texcoco of the Central American Acolhua people .	Nicolò Marcello becomes Doge of Venice .
Leonardo da Vinci paints the landscape with the river .
1473 in other calendars
Armenian calendar	921/922 (turn of the year July)
Ethiopian calendar	1465/66
Aztec calendar	6. Feuerstein - Chicuace Tecpatl (until the end of January / beginning of February: 5th pipes - Macuilli Acatl )
Buddhist calendar	2016/17 (southern Buddhism); 2015/16 (alternative calculation according to Buddhas Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar	69th (70th) cycle Year of the Water Snake癸巳 ( at the beginning of the year Water Dragon 壬辰)
Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam)	835/836 (turn of the year April)
Iranian calendar	851/852
Islamic calendar	877/878 (turn of the year 28/29 May)
Jewish calendar	5233/34 (September 22/23)
Coptic calendar	1189/90
Malayalam calendar	648/649
Seleucid era	Babylon: 1783/84 (turn of the year April) Syria: 1784/85 (turn of the year October)
Spanish era	1511
Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar)	1529/30 (turn of the year April)

Events

Politics and world events

Europe

• On July 12th, the Urach contract is signed, which determines the succession in the house of Württemberg .

Nicolò Marcellos coat of arms

• Nicolò Marcello succeeds the late Niccolò Tron as Doge of Venice . In the election, he prevails against the later Doges Pietro Mocenigo and Andrea Vendramin . In his short reign he mainly devoted himself to the reorganization of the state finances of the Maritime Republic .

Asia

• On August 11th, the Battle of Otlukbeli takes place between the Aq Qoyunlu and the Ottoman Empire . The Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II the Conqueror celebrates a decisive victory against his opponent Uzun Hasan .

• The Kingdom of Kandy on Ceylon becomes independent from the Kingdom of Kotte .

European voyages of discovery

• The Europeans are advancing into the southern hemisphere: a Portuguese expedition under the seafarer Lopes Gonçalves crosses the equator on a journey along the west coast of Africa .
• A Danish-Portuguese expedition with the pilot Johannes Scolvus under the direction of Hildesheimer Didrik Pining , Hans Pothorst and the Portuguese João Vaz Corte-Real is traveling the North Atlantic on behalf of King Christian I of Denmark and Norway and at the request of the Portuguese King Alfons V. . It reaches at least the west coast of Greenland via the classic Iceland route . It cannot be completely ruled out that it could also reach Newfoundland and Labrador .

Mesoamerica

• Tenochtitlan under his ruler Axayacatl conquered the neighboring city-state of Tlatelolco . The two cities grow together, Tenochtitlan gains hegemony in the Aztec empire .
• The nine-year-old Nezahualpilli becomes ruler of the city-state Texcoco of the Central American Acolhua people . Like his father Nezahualcóyotl , who died last year , he works as a poet and gains the reputation of a just ruler.

economy

Coat of arms of the
Fugger from the lily

• The Fugger bank receives its own coat of arms .

science and technology

• March 16 : The University of Trier opens - 18 years after Pope Nikolaus V gave permission to establish it.

• The St Catharine's College of the University of Cambridge was founded.

Culture

• On August 5 signed Leonardo da Vinci 's drawing of the Arno landscape . It is said to be the first example of a purely landscape representation in European art.

Disasters

• In summer, Central Europe is extremely dry and hot. The Danube can even be crossed on foot in Hungary.

Born

Date of birth saved

Nicolaus Copernicus

• February 19 : Nikolaus Kopernikus , Frauenburg canon, lawyer, administrator and doctor, as well as mathematician and astronomer († 1543 )
• March 14th : Reinhard IV. , Co-regent of the County of Hanau-Münzenberg († 1512 )
• March 16 : Heinrich the Pious , Duke of Saxony and Sagan and Margrave of Meissen († 1541 )
• March 17th : James IV , King of Scotland († 1513 )

Johann Corvinus 1486

• April 2 : Johann Corvinus , Count of Hunyadi, Ban of Croatia and Slavonia and Duke of Slavonia, Opava, Leobschütz, Glogau and Liptau († 1504 )

• July 2 : Maria von Baden , princess of Baden and abbess in the Lichtenthal monastery († 1519 )
• July 25 : Maddalena de 'Medici , Florentine patrician († 1519 )

• August 14 : Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury , English noblewoman, Catholic martyr († 1541 )
• August 17 : Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York , Duke of York and Norfolk, one of the two princes in the Tower († 1483 ?)
• August 25 : Margarethe von Münsterberg , Princess of Anhalt († 1530 )
• August: Jacob III. , last king of Cyprus († 1474 )

• September 24 : Georg von Frundsberg , German soldier and Landsknechtsführer in the Imperial-Habsburg service († 1528 )
• October 26 : Friedrich von Sachsen , Grand Master of the Teutonic Order († 1510 )
• November 11th : Martin von Baumgartner , Tyrolean mine owner and driver of Palestine († 1535 )

Exact date of birth unknown

• Arakida Moritake , Japanese Shinto priest and poet († 1549 )
• Baba Arudsch , Ottoman corsair and ruler of Algiers († 1518 )
• Hans Burgkmair the Elder , German painter, draftsman and wood cutter († 1531 )
• Johannes Cuspinian , German humanist, poet and diplomat († 1529 )
• Wolfgang VI. von Dalberg , electoral Palatinate knight, clerk and castle man in Oppenheim († 1522 )
• Edward of Middleham , Prince of Wales († 1484 )

Leonardo da Vinci: Cecilia Gallerani as a lady with an ermine

• Cecilia Gallerani , patrician of Milan, mistress of Ludovico Sforza († 1536 )
• George III von Ortenburg , Bavarian nobleman († 1553 )
• Louis de Gorrevod , Bishop of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne and Bishop of Bourg-en-Bresse († 1535 )
• Barbara von Gundelfingen , abbess of the liberal women's monastery in Buchau († 1523 )
• Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk , English nobleman and politician († 1554 )
• Franciotto Orsini , Bishop of Rimini († 1534 )
• Hans von der Planitz , Saxon knight and lawyer († 1535 )
• Hans Schweiner , German stonemason, master builder, sculptor and architect († 1534 )

Portrait of Elsbeth Tucher by Albrecht Dürer

• Elsbeth Tucher , Nuremberg patrician († 1517 )

Died

First half of the year

Epitaph for Conrad Paumann in the Frauenkirche in Munich

• January 24th : Conrad Paumann , German musician (* between 1409 and 1415)
• January: Agnes von Baden , Duchess of Schleswig, Countess of Holstein and Margravine of Baden (* 1408 )

• February 19 : Heinrich Birnbaum , German clergyman and Carthusian monk (* 1403 )
• February 23 : Arnold von Egmond , Duke of Geldern (* 1410 )

• 3. / 4 March : Heinrich Bukow , German Catholic theologian and rector of the University of Greifswald
• March 25 : Jean II. De Croÿ , Burgundian nobleman and Count of Chimay (* around 1403 )

• April 3 : Alessandro Sforza , ruler of Pesaro (* 1409 )
• April 25 : Albrecht von Hoya , Bishop of Minden and administrator of the Diocese of Osnabrück

• June 11th : Herbord , Catholic priest, Benedictine and abbot of St. Januarius Monastery in Murrhardt
• June 28th : Pierre d'Amboise , French nobleman
• June 28 : Niclas Gerhaert van Leyden , Flemish-German sculptor (* around 1430 )
• June 28 : John Talbot , English nobleman (* 1448 )

Second half of the year

• July 10 : James II , King of Cyprus (* around 1440 )
• July 11th : Bernhard II Leoprechtinger , Reich prelate and provost of the Berchtesgaden monastery
• July 14th : Jean Juvénal des Ursins , French historian, diplomat and bishop (* 1388 )
• July 27 : Nicholas I , Duke of Lorraine, Bar and Calabria (* 1448 )
• July 28 : Niccolò Tron , 68th Doge of Venice (* around 1399 )

• August 5th : Konrad von Rechberg , Administrator of the Diocese of Chur and Provost of Constance
• September 9 : Sophie von Sachsen-Lauenburg , Duchess and Regent of Jülich and Berg (* before 1444)
• September: Wilhelm II. , Count of Limburg and Herr zu Broich (* around 1425 )
• November 8th : Sibet Attena , East Frisian chief (* around 1425 )

Exact date of death unknown

• Heinrich II. , Prince of Lüneburg and Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel (* 1411 )
• Thomas Pirckheimer , German jurist and early humanist (* 1417 / 1418 )

Niccolò Tron's tomb in the Frari Church in Venice

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