1477
| Years: 1474 1475 1476 – 1477 – 1478 1479 1480 | |
| Decades: 1440s 1450s 1460s – 1470s – 1480s 1490s 1500s | |
| Centuries: 14th century – 15th century – 16th century | |
Events
- January 5 – Battle of Nancy – Charles the Bold of Burgundy is again defeated, and this time is killed. This marks the end of the Burgundian Wars.
- February 10 – Mary of Burgundy, the daughter of Charles the Bold, is forced by her disgruntled subjects to sign the "Great Privilege," by which the Flemish cities recovered all the local and communal rights which had been abolished by the arbitrary decrees of the dukes of Burgundy in their efforts to create in the Low Countries a centralized state.
- August 18 – Mary of Burgundy marries Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor in Ghent, bringing her Flemish and Burgundian lands into the Holy Roman Empire and detaching them from France.
- Swedish University of Uppsala founded.
- November 18 – William Caxton produces "Dictes or Sayengis of the Philosophres", the first English book printed on a printing press.
Births
- January 25 – Anna, Duchess of Brittany, queen of Charles VIII of France (d. 1514)
- Il Sodoma, Italian painter
- Lambert Simnel, Pretender to the throne of England (estimated date)
- Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, English diplomat (approximate date)
Deaths
- January 5 – Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy
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