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Year 1474 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events. January–December. February – The ...
The Burgundian Wars (1474–1477) were a conflict between the Burgundian State and the Old Swiss Confederacy and its allies. Open war broke out in 1474, and the Duke of Burgundy, Charles the Bold, was defeated three times on the battlefield in the following years and was killed at the Battle of Nancy in 1477.
Almanach cracoviense ad annum 1474, an astronomical wall calendar, is published in Kraków, the oldest known printing in Poland. [16] 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 Sand Pebbles is a 1966 American epic war film directed by Robert Wise in Panavision.It tells the story of an independent, rebellious U.S. Navy machinist's mate first class, aboard the fictional river gunboat USS San Pablo, on Yangtze Patrol in 1920s China.
However, the film took many liberties in its story, including altering the timeline of events (the movie is set in the late 1930s even though the real Georg and Maria wed a decade earlier) and how ...
In the spring of 1474, Laiotă took the Wallachian throne for the second time; and in June, he made the decision to betray his protégé by submitting to Mehmet. [37] Stephen then invested his support into a new candidate, named Ţepeluş (little spear), but his reign was even shorter, as it only lasted a few weeks after being defeated by ...
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]
1474 William Canynge, merchant (born c. 1399) Walter Frye, composer (year of birth unknown) 1475 10 March – Richard West, 7th Baron De La Warr (born 1430) 20 May – Alice de la Pole, Duchess of Suffolk, courtier and patron of the arts (born c. 1404) 1476 14 January – John de Mowbray, 4th Duke of Norfolk (born 1444)