1473

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)