1477

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1440s 1450s 1460s – 1470s – 1480s 1490s 1500s
Years:	1474 1475 1476 – 1477 – 1478 1479 1480

1477 in topic:
Subjects: Archaeology – Architecture –
Art – Literature – Music – Science
Leaders: State leaders – Colonial governors
Category: Establishments – Disestablishments
Births – Deaths – Works

Year 1477 (MCDLXXVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January 5 – Battle of Nancy: Charles the Bold of Burgundy is again defeated, and this time is killed. This marks the end of the Burgundian Wars.
February 10 – Mary of Burgundy, the daughter of Charles the Bold, is forced by her disgruntled subjects to sign the "Great Privilege," by which the Flemish cities recover all the local and communal rights which had been abolished by the arbitrary decrees of the dukes of Burgundy, in their efforts to create in the Low Countries a centralized state.
August 18 – Mary of Burgundy marries Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor in Ghent, bringing her Flemish and Burgundian lands into the Holy Roman Empire and detaching them from France.
The Swedish University of Uppsala is founded.
November 18 – William Caxton produces Dictes or Sayengis of the Philosophres, the first English book printed on an English printing press.

Map showing the situation of 1477, with Calais, the English Pale and neighboring counties

January 2
- Franzone, assassin (executed)
- Gerolamo Olgiati, assassin (executed)
- Carlo Visconti, assassin (executed)
January 5 – Charles, Duke of Burgundy (in battle) (b. 1433)
January 6 – Jean VIII, Count of Vendôme
August 4 – Jacques d'Armagnac, Duke of Nemours
August 11 – Latino Orsini, cardinal (b. 1411)