1473

1473 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar	1473; MCDLXXIII
Ab urbe condita	2226
Armenian calendar	922; ԹՎ ՋԻԲ
Assyrian calendar	6223
Balinese saka calendar	1394–1395
Bengali calendar	880
Berber calendar	2423
English Regnal year	12 Edw. 4 – 13 Edw. 4
Buddhist calendar	2017
Burmese calendar	835
Byzantine calendar	6981–6982
Chinese calendar	壬辰年 (Water Dragon); 4169 or 4109; — to —; 癸巳年 (Water Snake); 4170 or 4110
Coptic calendar	1189–1190
Discordian calendar	2639
Ethiopian calendar	1465–1466
Hebrew calendar	5233–5234
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1529–1530
- Shaka Samvat	1394–1395
- Kali Yuga	4573–4574
Holocene calendar	11473
Igbo calendar	473–474
Iranian calendar	851–852
Islamic calendar	877–878
Japanese calendar	Bunmei 5; (文明５年)
Javanese calendar	1389–1390
Julian calendar	1473; MCDLXXIII
Korean calendar	3806
Minguo calendar	439 before ROC; 民前439年
Nanakshahi calendar	5
Thai solar calendar	2015–2016
Tibetan calendar	阳水龙年; (male Water-Dragon); 1599 or 1218 or 446; — to —; 阴水蛇年; (female Water-Snake); 1600 or 1219 or 447

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1440s 1450s 1460s – 1470s – 1480s 1490s 1500s
Years:	1470 1471 1472 – 1473 – 1474 1475 1476

1473 (MCDLXXIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1473rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 473rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 73rd year of the 15th century, and the 4th year of the 1470s decade. As of the start of 1473, the Gregorian calendar was 9 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

Events

February 12 - The first complete edition of Avicenna's The Canon of Medicine (in Latin translation) is published in Milan.
August 11 - Sultan of the Ottoman Empire Mehmed II defeats the White Sheep Turkmens led by Uzun Hasan at Otlukbeli.

Axayacatl, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan, in present-day Mexico, invades the territory of the neighbouring Aztec city of Tlatelolco. The ruler of Tlatelolco is killed and replaced by a military governor, and it loses its independence in the process.
The city walls of Celje, Slovenia, are built.
Marsilio Ficino becomes a priest.
Nicolo Marcello becomes Doge of Venice.

February 19 – Nicolaus Copernicus, astronomer and mathematician (d. 1543)
March 16 – Henry IV, Duke of Saxony (d. 1541)
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)

January 24 – Conrad Paumann, German composer (b. c. 1410)
February 23 – Arnold, Duke of Gelderland (b. 1410)
April – Alessandro Sforza, condottiero
May 8 – John Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, English politician (b. 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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