1474

This page relates to the year 1474 Calendrier Julien.

Events

With the Japan, the Shogun Yoshimasa Ashikaga abdicates to be devoted to arts in favor of his/her son Yoshihisa Ashikaga. A conflict of succession precipitates the decline of the family Ashikaga.

July 18th: Execution of the Othoman vizier of Greek origin Mahmoud Pasha, suspected of having negotiated with Venice between 1469 and 1473 to restore with its profit the Byzantine Empire.

March 30th - April 4th: Creation of the League of Constancy between Sigismond of the the Tyrol, Basle, Strasbourg, Colmar, Sélestat and the Swiss cantons against Charles Bold the.

Louis XI of France weaves around Burgundian diplomatic net: it binds to the Suisse S and milked with the English (1475).

May 23rd: Giuliano della Rovere, future pope Jules II, is named bishop of Avignon (Vaucluse, France).
July 25th: Edouard IV of England and Charles Bold the sign a treaty in virtue of which the king of England commits himself unloading in France with ten thousand men before June 1st 1475.
June 27th: François II of Brittany, count d' Etampes, duke of Brittany wife to Clisson, Loire-Atlantique, Marguerite de Foix, with which it will have a girl, who will succeed to him: the duchess Anne of Brittany.
October 25th: The Swiss cantons declare the war with Charles Bold the. Beginning of the War of Burgundy (fine in 1477).

November 13rd: Battle of Héricourt. In 1474 the Alsatian ones revolt against the baillif Pierre de Hagenbach who was imposed to them by the duke of Burgundy, their lord, and call the Help! the Suisses, their allies, which beat the Burgundian ones with Héricourt.
November 19th: The talks of Breslau between Mathias Corvin, Vladislas IV of Bohemia and Casimir IV of Poland arrive at the conclusion of a three years armistice.
December 12th:

Beginning of the reign of Isabelle the Catholic (1451-1504), queen of Castille.
Rebellion of the noble Castilians supported by Alphonse V of Portugal against Isabelle (end in 1477).

December: Mehmet II sends troops in Moldavie in order to punish Etienne III Large the which refuses to pay the tribute.

the Bold share with the conquest of the Lorraine but is put in failure at the seat of Neuss, in the Rhineland (1474 - 1475).
Louis XI of France grants privileges to the foreign merchants come to settle with Bordeaux. Many new Christians of Spain and Portugal settle in the city.
Incursions Othoman be in Austria and Hungary (fine in 1480).
Ivan III the Large one joins together Rostov at the Muscovite State.

In its retirement of Higashiyama, close to Kyôto, with the foot of the “mountains of the East”, Yoshimasa Ashikaga is surrounded “companions” ( dôbôshû ), professional often of modest origin and faithful artists of the school amidist of the “Moment”. With them he invents the “style of library” ( shoin zukuri ), which remains the gun of Japanese traditional architecture. Hitherto made to receive and request, the aristocratic houses from now on are designed to work in the middle of the books. The allied concept of comfort to a simple elegance yields the step to that of setting in scene.

Flavio Biondo of Forlì publishes, in Italy, the illustrated Italy , one of its historical works most important.
William Caxton off prints with Bruges the Recuyell the Historyes off Troye , the first work printed in language English E.

Ivan III invites to Moscow Italian architects and craftsmen: Aristote Fioravanti, Pietro Solario, Alevisio Nuovo, Marco Ruffo.
Ivan III undertakes the construction of the the Kremlin in Moscow.
Fioravanti builds the Cathédrale of Dormition of Moscow (fine in 1479).
Retable of San Cassiano and Saint-Sebastien, painted with Venice by Antonello da Messina.
Construction of the ducal palate with Venice, decorated amongst other things by Carpaccio and Bellini.

June 25th: Letter of the cosmographer Florentin Paolo Toscanelli with the Portuguese canon Martins, basing itself on the errors spread by Martin de Tyr. It locates the Japan at 2400 miles in the west of the the Canaries (with less of the quarter of the real distance).

the English printer William Caxton publishes in Bruges the first book printed in English.
First Printing works with Cracow in Poland.
Shoeing introduces printing works with Naples.
Piero della Francesca writes De Prospectiva Pingendi .
the first true legislation allotting a Monopole for the inventions appears with Venice.

May 18th: Isabelle d' Este, noble Italian, First Lady of the Rebirth († February 13rd 1539)
August 24th: Bartolomé de Las Put priest, defender of the Indians at the time of the Controverse of Valladolid (death 1566)

November 27th: Guillaume Dufay, French type-setter (born v. 1400), one of the first Masters of the counterpoint and the Polyphony to four votes.
December 11th: Henri IV of Castille

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