This page relates to the year 1473 Calendrier Julien.

Events

Africa

• the king of the Songhaï Sonni Ali Ber takes Djenné after a seat which would have lasted, according to the legend, seven years, seven months and seven days. Master of the loop of the Niger, Sonni Ali attacks the Yatenga Mossi, between Songhaï and the Macina. He occupies by the force the north of the Yatenga and part of the Lolo (1473 - 1475).

• the Portuguese Fernando Póo occupies the island who bears his name in the gulf of Guinea and the river Cameroun (Rio back Camaroes: river of shrimps).

• Two armies Ethiopia are not defeats by the Moslem Afar in 1473 and 1474.

The close East

• Battle of Otluk-Beli. Victoire of the Othoman on the Ak Koyunlu.
• With died of the king of Cyprus Jacques II of Lusignan, Venice protects his wife Catherine Corner, enclosure of the future Jacques III of Cyprus, of a Neapolitan plot.

Europe

• March 13rd: Anti-Jewish riot with Cordoue. The day before Easter, the Christian brotherhood “Charity” stops its procession and is thrown on the Juifs and the Conversos. The order east restores only at the price of the prohibition of the access of the city to the conversos. The wave of disorder extends to the remainder from the Andalusia.

• the pope Sixte IV establishes the inquisitorial court of the the Holy Office in Castille.
• Sixth IV asserting persistent confusion, in spite of the statute of 1469, between the jurisdictions of the ecclesiastical courts and the communal courts of Rome, considerably reduced the field of application of the Curia capitoline.

France

• March 5th: Jean V of Armagnac is assassinated at the time of the catch of Lectoure.
• July - August: Charles Bold the appendix the Gueldre.
• Be hot. Early grape harvest.
• September 17th: Treated Perpignan between the king of Aragon and Louis XI of France, which neutralizes the territory roussillonnais.
• November 8th: Treaty of Senlis: truce enters the duke of Brittany and Louis XI.
• November: Marriage of Pierre de Beaujeu and Anne of France.

Holy roman Empire

• Charles Bold the establishes a single Parliament with Malines to centralize the capacity on its States (1473 - 1477). Failure of its royal ambitions.

• Rene II becomes duke of Lorraine.

• Engagement between Marie of Burgundy (16 years) and Maximilien de Habsbourg (14 years) with Trier, causing the estrangement between the France and the Austria during three centuries.

• the Austrians fight against the Othoman in Carniole and Carinthie (1473, 1476, 1479, 1483). Carniole undergoes 27 incursions between 1473 and 1508.

Balkans

• the Venetian fleet, which operates on the Albanian littoral (seat of Scutari) is decimated by the Malaria and must gain Cattaro to remake itself there.
• November: Basarab III Laiota becomes voïévode of Valachie (1473 - 1474; 1475 - 1476; 1477).
• Etienne III Large the of Moldavie succeeds in reversing Radu Beautiful the in Valachie and replacing it by a faithful prince. During more than one year, Valachie passes with the hands of the allied princes of Etienne to that of vassal of the Turks and vice versa.

Russia

• Ivan III of Moscow is combined with the khan the Crimea Mengli Giray to fight the Horde of Gold.

Arts & cultures

• Construction of the library Marciana with Venice whose first bottom is consisted 600 manuscripts bequeathed to the city by the cardinal Bessarion, died the previous year.

• Chronica Hungarorum , of Thuroczy, first book printed in Hungary by András Hess.
• Translation of the legal code of the town of Magdeburg ( Sachsenspiegel ) in slovaquized Czech with Žilina.

• With the Japan, Yoshimasa Ashikaga builds the “Ginkakuji” (Money House).
• Beginning of the construction of the Large Seraglio of Topkapi with Istanbul.
• the construction of the Chapelle Sixtine starts with Rome (fine in 1481).
• Léonard de Vinci painted the Annunciation .
• Holy Sebastien , painting of Sandro Botticelli (1473-1474).
• the Test of fire , painting of Dierick Ends.
• Virgin with the bush of pinks , large retable carried out for the Saint Martin's day church with Colmar of Martin Schongauer.
• the last Judgment , fabric of Hans Memling, is completed (1466 -1473).

Sciences & technology

• Portuguese Lopo Gonsalves crosses for the first time of the history the equator.

• the Imprimerie is established with Lyon, which becomes about it one of the principal centers in Europe.

Births in 1473

• February 19th: Nicolas Copernic, Astronomer Polish.

Death in 1473

• February 20th: Hardouin IX of With a grid, baron of With a grid, Rochecorbon and $the Hague, lord of Beaucay, Rillé and Montils-the-Turns, adviser and Chamberlain of the king Louis XI and Seneshal of Saintonge.

• July 10th: Jacques II of Cyprus

• nonwell informed or unknown Dates :
• Petrus Christus, Flemish painter (born in 1420).

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