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 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1474 MCDLXXIV
Ab urbe condita	2227
Armenian calendar	923 ԹՎ ՋԻԳ
Assyrian calendar	6224
Balinese saka calendar	1395–1396
Bengali calendar	881
Berber calendar	2424
English Regnal year	13 Edw. 4 – 14 Edw. 4
Buddhist calendar	2018
Burmese calendar	836
Byzantine calendar	6982–6983
Chinese calendar	癸巳年 (Water Snake) 4170 or 4110     — to — 甲午年 (Wood Horse) 4171 or 4111
Coptic calendar	1190–1191
Discordian calendar	2640
Ethiopian calendar	1466–1467
Hebrew calendar	5234–5235
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1530–1531
- Shaka Samvat	1395–1396
- Kali Yuga	4574–4575
Holocene calendar	11474
Igbo calendar	474–475
Iranian calendar	852–853
Islamic calendar	878–879
Japanese calendar	Bunmei 6 (文明６年)
Javanese calendar	1390–1391
Julian calendar	1474 MCDLXXIV
Korean calendar	3807
Minguo calendar	438 before ROC 民前438年
Nanakshahi calendar	6
Thai solar calendar	2016–2017
Tibetan calendar	阴水蛇年 (female Water-Snake) 1600 or 1219 or 447     — to — 阳木马年 (male Wood-Horse) 1601 or 1220 or 448

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