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Calendar year
Year 1473 (
MCDLXXIII ) was a
common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the
Julian calendar .
Events
January–December
Date unknown
Births
Nicolaus Copernicus
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
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
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 .