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Year 1475 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January 10 - Battle of Vaslui: Stephen III of Moldavia defeats the Ottoman Empire.
August 29— The Treaty of Picquigny ends a brief war between France and England.
November - The Battle on the Planta takes place during the Burgundian Wars.
Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye is the first book to be printed in English, by William Caxton in Bruges.
The Landshuter hochzeit takes place.
Kiva Han, the world's first coffee house, opens in Constantinople, now modern day Istanbul.
The oldest recorded game of chess is played, between Francesco di Castellvi and Narciso Vinyoles.
Jacopo de Promotoria ascribes the low birthrate among noble Turks in Anatolia to "the infinite lechery of various slaves and young boys to whom they give themselves".

Births

February 25—Edward, Earl of Warwick, last male member of the House of York (d. 1499)

March 6—Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian painter (d. 1564)

September 6 - Sebastiano Serlio, Italian Mannerist architect (d. 1554)

September 13? - Cesare Borgia, illegitimate son of Pope Alexander VI (d. 1507)

December 11—Pope Leo X (d. 1521)

December 24—Thomas Murner, German satirist (d. c. 1537)

date unknown

Valerius Anshelm, Swiss chronicler
Vasco Núñez de Balboa, Spanish conquistador (approximate date; d. 1519)
Gendun Gyatso, 2nd Dalai Lama (d. 1541)

probable

Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón, Spanish explorer (d. 1526)
Thomas West, 9th Baron De La Warr (d. 1554)
Margaret Drummond, mistress of James IV of Scotland (d. 1502)
Pierre Gringore, French poet and playwright (d. 1538)
Filippo de Lurano, Italian composer (d. 1520)
Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conquistador (d. 1541)
John Stokesley, English prelate (d. 1539)

Deaths

March 10 - Richard West, 7th Baron De La Warr (b. 1430)

March - Simon of Trent, Italian saint, subject of a blood libel

June 13 - Joan of Portugal, Queen of Castile (b. 1439)

September 6 - Adolph II of Nassau, Archbishop of Mainz (b. c. 1423)

December 10 - Paolo Uccello, Italian painter (b. 1397)

date unknown

Georges Chastellain, Burgundian chronicler and poet
Radu cel Frumos, Prince of Wallachia (born c. 1437)
Theodorus Gaza, one of the Greek scholars who were the leaders of the revival of learning in the 15th century (b. c. 1400)
Theodosius, Metropolitan of Moscow
Masuccio Salernitano, Italian poet (b. 1410)

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