- 1476
Year 1476 was a
leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of theJulian calendar .Events
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March 2 -Battle of Grandson : A Swiss army defeats the Burgundians underCharles the Bold .
*June 2 -Battle of Morat : The Swiss again defeat Charles.
*July 26 -Battle of Valea Albă : The Moldavians are defeated by the Ottoman army of Mehmed the Conqueror.
* December -Vlad III the Impaler manages to become reigning Prince ofWallachia for the third and last time, before being killed by the Ottoman Turks at the Battle of Bucharest. His head is sent to his old enemy SultanMehmed II of theOttoman Empire .Births
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June 28 -Pope Paul IV (d.1559 )
*August 28 -Kano Motonobu , Japanese painter (d.1559 )
*"date unknown" -Juan Sebastián Elcano , Spanish explorer (d.1526 )Deaths
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January 14 -John de Mowbray, 4th Duke of Norfolk (b.1444 )
*June 8 - George Neville, English archbishop and statesman (b. c.1432 )
*July 6 -Regiomontanus , German astronomer (b.1436 )
*November 28 -James of the Marches , Franciscan friar
* December
**Vlad III the Impaler , Prince of Wallachia (b.1431 )
**Isabella Neville , Duchess of Clarence (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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