1474

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Year 1474 (MCDLXXIV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

• February – The Treaty of Utrecht puts an end to the Anglo-Hanseatic War.
• March 19 – The Senate of the Republic of Venice enacts the Venetian Patent Statute, one of the earliest patent systems in the world.^[1] New and inventive devices, once put into practice, have to be communicated to the Republic to obtain the right to prevent others from using them. This is considered the first modern patent system.^[2]
• December 12 – Upon the death of Henry IV of Castile, a civil war ensues between his designated successor Isabella I of Castile and her niece Juana, who is supported by her husband, Afonso V of Portugal. Isabella wins the civil war after a lengthy struggle when her husband, Ferdinand II of Aragon, the newly crowned king of Aragon, comes to her aid.

Date unknown

• Marsilio Ficino completes his book Theologia Platonica (Platonic Theology).

Births

• January 7 – Thihathura II of Ava (d. 1501)
• March 1 – Angela Merici, Italian religious leader and saint (d. 1540)
• May 18 – Isabella d'Este, Marquise of Mantua (d. 1539)
• September 8 – Ludovico Ariosto, Italian poet (d. 1533)
• October 7 – Bernhard III, Margrave of Baden-Baden (d. 1536)
• October 13 – Mariotto Albertinelli, High Renaissance Italian painter of the Florentine school (d. 1515)
• October 26 – Frederick of Saxony (d. 1510)
• December 24 – Bartolomeo degli Organi, Italian musician (d. 1539)
• date unknown
  • Anacaona, Taino queen and poet (d. 1503)
  • Juan Diego, Mexican Catholic saint (d. 1548)
  • Giacomo Pacchiarotti, Italian painter (d. 1539 or 1540)
  • Cuthbert Tunstall, English bishop and diplomat (d. 1559)
  • Humphrey Kynaston, English highwayman (d. 1534)
• probable
  • Sebastian Cabot, Venetian explorer (d. c.1557)
  • Edward Guilford, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports of England (d. 1534)
  • Stephen Hawes, English poet (d. c. 1521)
  • Sir John Seymour, English courtier (d. 1536)
  • Perkin Warbeck, pretender to the throne of England (d. 1499)

Deaths

• August 26 – James III of Cyprus (b. 1473)
• November – William Canynge, English merchant (b. c. 1399)
• November 27 – Guillaume Dufay, Flemish composer (b. 1397)
• December 11 – King Henry IV of Castile (b. 1425)
• date unknown
  • Gomes Eannes de Azurara, Portuguese chronicler (b. c. 1410)
  • Gendun Drup, 1st Dalai Lama (b. 1391)
• probable
  • Walter Frye, English composer
  • Jehan de Waurin, French chronicler

References