1476
A painting of Vlad the Impaler, who was killed on the march to Bucharest, probably before the end of December.
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| Gregorian calendar | 1476 MCDLXXVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2229 |
| Armenian calendar | 925 ԹՎ ՋԻԵ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6226 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1397–1398 |
| Bengali calendar | 883 |
| Berber calendar | 2426 |
| English Regnal year | 15 Edw. 4 – 16 Edw. 4 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2020 |
| Burmese calendar | 838 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6984–6985 |
| Chinese calendar | 乙未年 (Wood Goat) 4172 or 4112 — to — 丙申年 (Fire Monkey) 4173 or 4113 |
| Coptic calendar | 1192–1193 |
| Discordian calendar | 2642 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1468–1469 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5236–5237 |
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| - Vikram Samvat | 1532–1533 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1397–1398 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4576–4577 |
| Holocene calendar | 11476 |
| Igbo calendar | 476–477 |
| Iranian calendar | 854–855 |
| Islamic calendar | 880–881 |
| Japanese calendar | Bunmei 8 (文明８年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1392–1393 |
| Julian calendar | 1476 MCDLXXVI |
| Korean calendar | 3809 |
| Minguo calendar | 436 before ROC 民前436年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 8 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2018–2019 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴木羊年 (female Wood-Goat) 1602 or 1221 or 449 — to — 阳火猴年 (male Fire-Monkey) 1603 or 1222 or 450 |
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Year 1476 (MCDLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
- March 1 – Battle of Toro (War of the Castilian Succession): Although militarily inconclusive, this assures the Catholic Monarchs the Crown of Castile, forming the basis for modern-day Spain.
- March 2 – Battle of Grandson (Burgundian Wars): Swiss forces defeat Burgundy.
- November 26 – Vlad the Impaler declares himself reigning Prince of Wallachia for the third and last time. He is killed on the march to Bucharest, probably before the end of December. His head is sent to his old enemy, Sultan Mehmed of the Ottomans.
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Births
- January 14 – Anne St Leger, Baroness de Ros, English baroness (d. 1526)
- March 12 – Anna Jagiellon, Duchess of Pomerania, Polish princess (d. 1503)
- May 2 – Charles I, Duke of Münsterberg-Oels, Count of Kladsko, Governor of Bohemia and Silesia (d. 1536)
- May 19 – Helena of Moscow, Grand Duchess consort of Lithuania and Queen consort of Poland (d. 1513)
- June 28 – Pope Paul IV (d. 1559)
- July 17 – Adrian Fortescue, English Roman Catholic martyr (d. 1539)
- July 21
- Alfonso I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara (d. 1534)
- Anna Sforza, Italian noble (d. 1497)
- July 22 – Zhu Youyuan, Ming Dynasty politician (d. 1519)
- August 28 – Kanō Motonobu, Japanese painter (d. 1559)
- September 11 – Louise of Savoy, French regent (d. 1531)
- October 1 – Guy XVI, Count of Laval (d. 1531)
- October 26 – Yi Gi, Korean philosopher (d. 1552)
- November 23 – Yeonsangun of Joseon, King of Korean Joseon Dynasty (d. 1506)
- December 13 – Lucy Brocadelli, Dominican tertiary and stigmatic (d. 1544)
- date unknown – Juan Sebastián Elcano, Spanish explorer (d. 1526)
Deaths
- January 14
- John de Mowbray, 4th Duke of Norfolk (b. 1444)
- Anne of York, Duchess of Exeter, Duchess of York, second child of Richard Plantagenet (b. 1439)
- March 1 – Imagawa Yoshitada, 9th head of the Imagawa clan (b. 1436)
- March 10 – Richard West, 7th Baron De La Warr (b. 1430)
- March – John I Ernuszt, Ban of Slavonia
- June 8 – George Neville, English archbishop and statesman (b. c. 1432)
- July 6 – Regiomontanus, German astronomer (b. 1436)
- September 8 – Jean II, Duke of Alençon, son of John I of Alençon and Marie of Brittany (b. 1409)
- November 28 – James of the Marches, Franciscan friar
- December
- Vlad III the Impaler, Prince of Wallachia (b. 1431)
- Isabel Neville, Duchess of Clarence, English noblewoman (b. 1451)
- December 12 – Frederick I, Elector Palatine (b. 1425)
- December 26 – Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan (assassinated) (b. 1444)
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