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Centuries: 14th century - 15th century - 16th century
Decades: 1420s 1430s 1440s 1450s 1460s - 1470s - 1480s 1490s 1500s 1510s 1520s
Years: 1473 1474 1475 1476 1477 - 1478 - 1479 1480 1481 1482 1483
Events
- April 26 - The Pazzi attack Lorenzo de' Medici and kill his brother Giuliano during High Mass in the Florence Cathedral.
- December 28 - Battle of Giornico - Swiss troops defeat the Milanese.
- Lorenzo de' Medici becomes sole ruler of Florence
- Grand Prince Ivan III of Moscow conquers Novgorod
- February 7 - Sir Thomas More, statesman and humanist, author of Utopia (+ 1535)
- Baldassarre Castiglione, italian writer and diplomat (the author of The Book of the Courtier - d. 1529).
- Giuliano de' Medici killed in Florence Cathedral\n
