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Events in 1477
| 17 January: |  | Muslims celebrate the Conclusion of the Fast on the first day of the month Shawwal. |
| 27 February: |  | The Swedish University of Uppsala is founded, the first university in Scandinavia. |
| 26 March: | | Muslims celebrate the Festival of Sacrifice on the tenth day of the month Dhu al-Hijjah. |
| 6 April: | | The resurrection of Jesus Christ is celebrated Easter Sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox as fixed by the Council of Nicaea in 325. |
| 7 April: | | Jews celebrate Pesach for the next seven or eight days. |
| 25 May: | | Seven weeks after Easter Christians celebrate Pentecost, possibly since 68 AD. |
| 26 September: | | Jews celebrate Yom Kippur since sunset last night. |
| 18 November: |  | English printer William Caxton produces the second book on an English press, “Dictes or Sayengis of the Philosophres”, after Chaucer's “Canterbury Tales”. |
| 7 December: | | The thirty days of Ramadan in the Islamic year 882 begin at the first sighting of the lunar crescent. |
People in 1477
Jami, Ivan III the Great, Lorenzo de' Medici, Christopher Columbus, Richard III, Leonardo da Vinci, Amerigo Vespucci, Pope Adrian VI, Maximilian I, Juan Ponce de León, Frans van Brederode, Selim I, Desiderius Erasmus, Nicolò Machiavelli, Hongzhi, Albrecht Dürer, Nicolaus Copernicus and Michelangelo Buonarroti celebrated their birthday this year.
Presenting 1477
The year 1477 was a common year starting on a Wednesday, just like 1382, 1393, 1399, 1410, 1421, 1427, 1438, 1449, 1455 and 1466 in the century before it and 1483, 1494, 1500, 1505, 1511, 1522, 1533, 1539, 1550, 1561 and 1567 in the next.
The coloured days highlight
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political
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scientific,
artistic and
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historical milestones, and recurring events such as anniversaries and
holidays.
The new
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icons indicate the phases of the moon and appear only for dates in the Gregorian calendar, i.e. after 14 October 1582. The Chinese calendar is available only from 1645 to 2644, the first millenium since the last reform. The coloured columns mark the Sundays, the last day of the week per standard ISO-8601.
Calculating time
The normal calendar page for the current /year?2013 contains an introduction to the intriguing history of the year as we know it. The Calendar Converter has more detail. The so called Perpetual Calendar uses a trick from before the age of computers to find the weekday for any Gregorian date. Also see an overview of all historical events in the last six thousand years.
URL: < http://4umi.com/year?1477 >, created 23 January 2011, changed 13 September 2012, served 19 May 2013.-
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