1476
A painting of Vlad the Impaler, who was killed on the march to Bucharest, probably before the end of December.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 14th century – 15th century – 16th century |
| Decades: | 1440s 1450s 1460s – 1470s – 1480s 1490s 1500s |
| Years: | 1473 1474 1475 – 1476 – 1477 1478 1479 |
| 1476 by topic |
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| 1476 in poetry |
| Gregorian calendar | 1476 MCDLXXVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2229 |
| Armenian calendar | 925 ԹՎ ՋԻԵ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6226 |
| Bengali calendar | 883 |
| Berber calendar | 2426 |
| English Regnal year | 15 Edw. 4 – 16 Edw. 4 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2020 |
| Burmese calendar | 838 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6984–6985 |
| Chinese calendar | 乙未年 (Wood Goat) 4172 or 4112 — to — 丙申年 (Fire Monkey) 4173 or 4113 |
| Coptic calendar | 1192–1193 |
| Discordian calendar | 2642 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1468–1469 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5236–5237 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1532–1533 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1398–1399 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4577–4578 |
| Holocene calendar | 11476 |
| Igbo calendar | 476–477 |
| Iranian calendar | 854–855 |
| Islamic calendar | 880–881 |
| Japanese calendar | Bunmei 8 (文明８年) |
| Julian calendar | 1476 MCDLXXVI |
| Korean calendar | 3809 |
| Minguo calendar | 436 before ROC 民前436年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2018–2019 |
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Year 1476 (MCDLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
- November 26 – Vlad the Impaler declares himself reigning Prince of Wallachia for the third and last time. He was killed on the march to Bucharest, probably before the end of December. His head was sent to his old enemy Sultan Mehmed of the Ottomans.
Births
- 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
- 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)