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1473| 1100–1532 | South America [administration] | The Inca empire dominates the Andes region of South America. Its population numbers as many as 12 million. Incan society is based on a strict hierarchy, with an emperor who rules with absolute power. Their religion is based on sun-worship, and they are skilled builders who create a system of roads and irrigation. | | 1467–1477 | South Asia [political events] | The kingdoms of Jaffna and Kandy in the north and centre of modern Sri Lanka respectively, wrest their independence from the kingdom of Kotte following the death of its king Parakramabahu VI and end its control over the entire island. | | 1473 | Netherlands [fiction] | Gesta Romanorum/Roman Tales is first printed, in Utrecht, Holland. A collection of illustrative tales, anecdotes, and historical narratives written in Latin, it was begun in about 1330 and gradually expanded to become a rich store of tales from Christian, Jewish, and classical sources. It provided many writers (including Geoffrey Chaucer and John Gower) with material. | | 1473 | Germany [literature and language] | De imitatione Christi/On the Imitation of Christ attributed to the German mystic Thomas à Kempis (Thomas Hemerken) is first printed in Augsburg. The text had been widely circulated in manuscript for many years before being published. A classic of devotional literature, it will become the most widely read Christian book after the Bible. | | 1473 | Germany [music] | The earliest known example of printed music, the Constance Gradual is published in Germany. | | 19 February 1473 | Poland [births and deaths] | Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish astronomer, who put forward the theory that the Earth revolved about its axis and around the Sun, born in Torun, Poland (–1543). | | 6 June 1473 | Japan [wars] | In Japan, Hosokawa Katsumoto, leader of the loyalist faction in the Onin War, dies. Following the earlier death of his opponent Yamana Mochitoyo, this ends any prospect of a truce and many residents leave the devastated capital, Kyoto, as Japan descends into feudal chaos. |
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Acciaiuoli, Donato
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Cornaro, Caterina
Council in the Marches
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Fedé, Jehen
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Justus of Ghent
Morton, John
Norfolk, Thomas Howard
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Schongauer, Martin
Sistine Chapel
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| It has some 10,000 volumes of ancient books, the oldest of them
from 1473, and its manuscript collection stretches back even further, to
the 12th century. Davies's slim volume
sets itself the bold ambition of setting the history of the university
between 1385 and 1473 in its social, economic, political,
ecclesiastical, and cultural context and, astonishingly, achieves it, at
least in the context of Florence. Washington Trust also recently announced plans to open two new bank
branches in early 2007: one at 1195 Oaklawn Avenue in Cranston, RI, and
a second at 1473 Warwick Avenue in Warwick, R. |