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

Events of 1473

Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II defeats the White Sheep Turkmens led by Uzun Hasan at Otlukbeli.
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.

Births

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 (born c1410)

February 23 - Arnold, Duke of Gelderland (born 1410)

April - Alessandro Sforza, condottiero

May 8 - John Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, English politician (born 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)

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