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March 19 – The Senate of the Republic of Venice enacts the Venetian Patent Statute, one of the earliest patent systems in the world. [1] New and inventive devices, once put into practice, have to be communicated to the Republic to obtain the right to prevent others from using them. This is considered the first modern patent system. [2]
1474. Eric II, Duke of Pomerania died 5 July Ali Qushji died 16 December. January 3 – Pietro Riario, Catholic cardinal (b. 1447) March 22 – Iacopo III Appiani, Prince of Piombino (b. 1422) April 14 – Anna of Brunswick-Grubenhagen, daughter of Duke Eric I of Brunswick-Grubenhagen (b. 1414) April 30 – Queen Gonghye, Korean royal consort ...
The Treaty of London (French: Traités de Londres) was an agreement between Charles the Bold of Burgundy and Edward IV of England signed on 25 July 1474. In the treaty, Charles agreed to support England militarily during an invasion of France, and to recognise Edward as the King of France. [1]
1470. 12 March – Wars of the Roses: House of York defeats rebel forces allied with Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick at the Battle of Losecoat Field. [2]20 March – the Battle of Nibley Green (in Gloucestershire) is the last fought between the private armies of feudal magnates in England.
Almanach cracoviense ad annum 1474, an astronomical wall calendar, is published in Kraków, the oldest known printing in Poland. [2] Florentine physician Marsilio Ficino becomes a Catholic priest. Possible date – Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye is the first book to be printed in English, by William Caxton, in Bruges.
The Late Bronze Age collapse was a period of societal collapse in the Mediterranean basin during the 12th century BC. It is thought to have affected much of the Eastern Mediterranean and Near East, in particular Egypt, Anatolia, the Aegean, eastern Libya, and the Balkans.
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June 3 – Bogislaw X, Duke of Pomerania (1474–1523) (d. 1523) June 16 – Joanna of Aragon, Queen of Naples (d. 1517) July 14 – Poliziano, Italian humanist (d. 1494) September 4 – Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English politician (d. 1483) September 24 – Gerold Edlibach, Swiss historian (d. 1530)