1474

This article is about the year 1474.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1440s  1450s  1460s  – 1470s –  1480s  1490s  1500s
Years:	1471 1472 1473 – 1474 – 1475 1476 1477

1474 by topic
Arts and science
Architecture - Art
Politics
State leaders - Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births - Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments - Disestablishments
Art and literature
1474 in poetry

1474 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1474 MCDLXXIV
Ab urbe condita	2227
Armenian calendar	923 ԹՎ ՋԻԳ
Assyrian calendar	6224
Bengali calendar	881
Berber calendar	2424
English Regnal year	13 Edw. 4 – 14 Edw. 4
Buddhist calendar	2018
Burmese calendar	836
Byzantine calendar	6982–6983
Chinese calendar	癸巳年 (Water Snake) 4170 or 4110     — to — 甲午年 (Wood Horse) 4171 or 4111
Coptic calendar	1190–1191
Discordian calendar	2640
Ethiopian calendar	1466–1467
Hebrew calendar	5234–5235
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1530–1531
- Shaka Samvat	1396–1397
- Kali Yuga	4575–4576
Holocene calendar	11474
Igbo calendar	474–475
Iranian calendar	852–853
Islamic calendar	878–879
Japanese calendar	Bunmei 6 (文明６年)
Julian calendar	1474 MCDLXXIV
Korean calendar	3807
Minguo calendar	438 before ROC 民前438年
Thai solar calendar	2016–2017

Year 1474 (MCDLXXIV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

• February – The Treaty of Utrecht puts an end to the Anglo-Hanseatic War.
• March 19 – The Senate of the Republic of Venice enacts the Venetian Patent Statute, one of the earliest patent systems in the world. 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.
• December 12 – Upon the death of Henry IV of Castile, a civil war ensues between his designated successor Isabella I of Castile and her niece Juana, who is supported by her husband, Afonso V of Portugal. Isabella wins the civil war after a lengthy struggle when her husband, Ferdinand II of Aragon, the newly crowned king of Aragon, comes to her aid.

Date unknown

• Marsilio Ficino completes his book Theologia Platonica (Platonic Theology).

Births

• March 1 – Angela Merici, Italian religious leader and saint (d. 1540)
• May 18 – Isabella d'Este, Marquise of Mantua (d. 1539)
• September 8 – Ludovico Ariosto, Italian poet (d. 1533)
• October 13 – Mariotto Albertinelli, Italian painter (d. 1515)
• date unknown
  • Juan Diego, Mexican Catholic saint (d. 1548)
  • Giacomo Pacchiarotti, Italian painter (d. 1539 or 1540)
  • Cuthbert Tunstall, English bishop and diplomat (d. 1559)
  • Humphrey Kynaston, English highwayman (d. 1534)
• probable
  • Sebastian Cabot, Venetian explorer (d. c.1557)
  • Edward Guilford, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports of England (d. 1534)
  • Stephen Hawes, English poet (d. c. 1521)
  • Sir John Seymour, English courtier (d. 1536)
  • Perkin Warbeck, pretender to the throne of England (d. 1499)

Deaths

• August 26 – James III of Cyprus (b. 1473)
• November – William Canynge, English merchant (b. c. 1399)
• November 27 – Guillaume Dufay, Flemish composer (b. 1397)
• December 11 – King Henry IV of Castile (b. 1425)
• date unknown
  • Gomes Eannes de Azurara, Portuguese chronicler (b. c. 1410)
  • Gendun Drup, 1st Dalai Lama (b. 1391)
• probable
  • Walter Frye, English composer
  • Jehan de Waurin, French chronicler