1474

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1440s  1450s  1460s  – 1470s –  1480s  1490s  1500s
Years:	1471 1472 1473 – 1474 – 1475 1476 1477

1474 Media

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  Eric II, Duke of Pomerania died 5 July

1474 (MCDLXXIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1474th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 474th year of the 2nd millennium, the 74th year of the 15th century, and the 5th year of the 1470s decade. As of the start of 1474, the Gregorian calendar was 9 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

Events

The Treaty of Utrecht was signed ending the Anglo-Hanseatic War in February

Births

• Ludovico Ariosto (d. 1533), Italian Poet
• Giulia Farnese (d. 1524) mistress to Pope Alexander VI
• Juan Ponce de Leon (d. 1521), Spanish explorer
• Perkin Warbeck (d. 1499) English Throne Pretender

Deaths

• Guillaume Dufay, Franco-Flemish Renaissance composer