1477
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| Years: 1474 1475 1476 - 1477 - 1478 1479 1480 | |
| Decades: 1440s 1450s 1460s - 1470s - 1480s 1490s 1500s | |
| Centuries: 14th century - 15th century - 16th century | |
Events
- January 5 - Battle of Nancy - Charles the Bold of Burgundy is again defeated, and this time is killed. This marks the end of the Burgundian Wars.
- February 10 - Mary of Burgundy, the daughter of Charles the Bold, is forced by her disgruntled subjects to sign the "Great Privilege," by which the Flemish cities recovered all the local and communal rights which had been abolished by the arbitrary decrees of the dukes of Burgundy in their efforts to create in the Low Countries a centralized state.
- August 18 - Mary of Burgundy marries Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor in Ghent, bringing her Flemish and Burgundian lands into the Holy Roman Empire and detaching them from France.
- Swedish University of Uppsala founded.
- November 18 - William Caxton produces "Dictes or Sayengis of the Philosophres", the first English book printed on a printing press.
Births
- January 14 - Hermann of Wied, German Catholic archbishop (died 1552)
- January 16 - Johannes Schöner, German astronomer and cartographer (died 1547)
- January 25 - Anne of Brittany, queen of Charles VIII of France (died 1514)
- February 3 - Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham (died 1521)
- March 20 - Jerome Emser, German theologian (d. 1527)
- Johannes Aventinus, Bavarian historian and philologist (died 1534)
- István Báthory, Hungarian nobleman (died 1534)
- Girolamo del Pacchia, Italian painter (approximate date; died 1533)
- Lambert Simnel, pretender to the throne of England (approximate date; died c. 1534)
- Il Sodoma, Italian painter (died 1549)
- Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, English diplomat (died 1539)
Deaths
- January 5 - Charles, Duke of Burgundy (killed in battle) (born 1433)
