1476
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| Years: 1473 1474 1475 - 1476 - 1477 1478 1479 |
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| Decades: 1440s 1450s 1460s - 1470s - 1480s 1490s 1500s |
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| Centuries: 14th century - 15th century - 16th century |
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| Arts and science |
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| State leaders - Sovereign states |
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| Establishments and disestablishments categories |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1476 MCDLXXVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2229 |
| Armenian calendar | 925 ԹՎ ՋԻԵ |
| Chinese calendar | 4112/4172-12-5 (乙未年十二月初五日) — to —
4113/4173-12-16(丙申年十二月十六日) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1468 – 1469 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5236 – 5237 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1531 – 1532 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1398 – 1399 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4577 – 4578 |
| Iranian calendar | 854 – 855 |
| Islamic calendar | 881 – 882 |
| Japanese calendar | Bunmei 8 (文明8年) |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 2136 (皇紀2136年) |
| - Jōmon Era | 11476 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2019 |
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[edit] Events
- March 2 - Battle of Grandson. A Swiss army defeats the Burgundians under Charles the Bold
- June 2 - Battle of Morat. The Swiss again defeat Charles.
- July 26 - Battle of Valea Albă. The Moldavians defeated by Ottoman army of Mehmed the Conqueror.
- December - Vlad III Dracula manages to become reigning Prince of Wallachia for the third and last time before being killed by the Ottoman turks at the battle of Bucharest. His head is sent to his old enemy Sultan Mehmed II of the Ottoman Empire.
[edit] Births
- June 28 - Pope Paul IV (died 1559)
- August 28 - Kano Motonobu, Japanese painter (died 1559)
- Juan Sebastián Elcano, Spanish explorer (died 1526)
[edit] Deaths
- June 8 - George Neville, English archbishop and statesman (born c1432)
- July 6 - Regiomontanus, German astronomer (born 1436)
- December 26 - Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan (assassinated) (born 1444)
- Vlad III Dracula, Prince of Wallachia (born 1431)
- Isabella Neville, Duchess of Clarence (born 1451)
- John de Mowbray, 4th Duke of Norfolk (born 1444)
[edit] In fiction
- The video game Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse is set in this year, as this is when Vlad/Dracula rises from the dead (following the historical Vlad's death in December).
