• William Caxton and Colard Mansion publish Caxton's translation of the French courtly Romance Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye, the first work in English ever printed using a printing press.
• Pope Sixtus IV begins construction on the Sistine Chapel.

These people were born in 1475:

• Italian artist Michelangelo Buonarroti.
• Ottoman admiral Khair ad Din.

These people died in 1475:

• Florentine painter Paolo Uccello.

1474 - 1475 - 1476

15th century

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