1476

1476 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar1476
MCDLXXVI
Ab urbe condita2229
Armenian calendar925
ԹՎ ՋԻԵ
Assyrian calendar6226
Balinese saka calendar1397–1398
Bengali calendar883
Berber calendar2426
English Regnal year15 Edw. 4 – 16 Edw. 4
Buddhist calendar2020
Burmese calendar838
Byzantine calendar6984–6985
Chinese calendar乙未(Wood Goat)
4172 or 4112
    — to —
丙申年 (Fire Monkey)
4173 or 4113
Coptic calendar1192–1193
Discordian calendar2642
Ethiopian calendar1468–1469
Hebrew calendar5236–5237
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1532–1533
 - Shaka Samvat1397–1398
 - Kali Yuga4576–4577
Holocene calendar11476
Igbo calendar476–477
Iranian calendar854–855
Islamic calendar880–881
Japanese calendarBunmei 8
(文明8年)
Javanese calendar1392–1393
Julian calendar1476
MCDLXXVI
Korean calendar3809
Minguo calendar436 before ROC
民前436年
Nanakshahi calendar8
Thai solar calendar2018–2019
Tibetan calendarཤིང་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་
(female Wood-Sheep)
1602 or 1221 or 449
    — to —
མེ་ཕོ་སྤྲེ་ལོ་
(male Fire-Monkey)
1603 or 1222 or 450

1476 (MCDLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1476th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 476th year of the 2nd millennium, the 76th year of the 15th century, and the 7th year of the 1470s decade. As of the start of 1476, the Gregorian calendar was 9 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

Events

  • March 2 – Battle of Grandson. A Swiss army defeats the Burgundians under Charles the Bold
  • June 2 – Battle of Morat. The Swiss again defeat Charles.
  • December – Vlad III Dracula manages to become reigning Prince of Wallachia for the third and last time before being assassinated by decapitation. His head is sent to his old enemy Sultan Mehmed II of the Ottoman Empire.