Year 1470 (
MCDLXX) was a
common year starting on Monday of the
Julian calendar
The Julian calendar is a solar calendar of 365 days in every year with an additional leap day every fourth year (without exception). The Julian calendar is still used as a religious calendar in parts of the Eastern Orthodox Church and in parts ...
.
Events
January–December
* March 12
Events Pre-1600
* 538 – Vitiges, king of the Ostrogoths ends his siege of Rome and retreats to Ravenna, leaving the city to the victorious Byzantine general, Belisarius.
* 1088 – Election of Urban II as the 159th Pope of th ...
– Wars of the Roses
The Wars of the Roses, known at the time and in following centuries as the Civil Wars, were a series of armed confrontations, machinations, battles and campaigns fought over control of the English throne from 1455 to 1487. The conflict was fo ...
in England – Battle of Losecoat Field: The House of York defeats the House of Lancaster.
* March 20 – The Battle of Nibley Green is the last fought between the private armies of feudal magnates in England.Hanseatic League
The Hanseatic League was a Middle Ages, medieval commercial and defensive network of merchant guilds and market towns in Central Europe, Central and Northern Europe, Northern Europe. Growing from a few Northern Germany, North German towns in the ...
privateers set sail.
* May 15 – Charles VIII of Sweden, who has served three terms as King of Sweden, dies. Sten Sture the Elder proclaims himself Regent of Sweden the following day.
* June 1
Events Pre-1600
* 1252 – Alfonso X is proclaimed king of Castile and León.
* 1298 – Residents of Riga and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeat the Livonian Order in the Battle of Turaida.
* 1495 – A monk, John Cor, rec ...
– Sten Sture is recognised as Swedish ruler by the estates.
* July 12 – The Ottomans
Ottoman may refer to:
* Osman I, historically known in English as "Ottoman I", founder of the Ottoman Empire
* Osman II, historically known in English as "Ottoman II"
* Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire (), also called the Turkish Empir ...
capture Euboea.
* August 20 – Battle of Lipnic: Stephen the Great defeats the Volga Tatars of the Golden Horde, led by Ahmed Khan.
* September 13 – A rebellion orchestrated by King Edward IV of England's former ally, Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, forces the King to flee England to seek support from his brother-in-law, Charles the Bold of Burgundy.
* October 3 – Warwick releases Henry VI of England from the Tower of London, and restores him to the throne.
* November 28 – Emperor Lê Thánh Tông of Đại Việt launches a naval expedition against Champa, beginning the Cham–Annamese War.
* December 18 – Lê Thánh Tông leads the Đại Việt army into Champa, conquering the country in less than three months.
Date unknown
* The Pahang Sultanate is established at Pahang Darul Makmur (in modern-day Malaysia).
* The first contact occurs between Europeans and the Fante nation of the Gold Coast, when a party of Portuguese land and meet with the King of Elmina.
* Johann Heynlin introduces the printing press into France and prints his first book this same year.
* In Tonga
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, in or around 1470, the Tuʻi Tonga Dynasty cedes its temporal powers to the Tuʻi Haʻatakalaua Dynasty, which will remain prominent until about 1600.
* Between this year and 1700, 8,888 witches are tried in the Swiss Confederation; 5,417 of them are executed.
* Sir George Ripley dedicates his book, ''The Compound of Alchemy'', to the King Edward IV of England.
* The
Chimor–Inca War ends with an Inca victory. The Chimor Empire is absorbed into the
Inca Empire
The Inca Empire, officially known as the Realm of the Four Parts (, ), was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America. The administrative, political, and military center of the empire was in the city of Cusco. The History of the Incas, Inca ...
.
Births
*
January 1
January 1 is the first day of the calendar year in the Gregorian Calendar; 364 days remain until the end of the year (365 in leap years). This day is also known as New Year's Day since the day marks the beginning of the year. __TOC__
Events ...
–
Magnus I, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg, German noble (d.
1543)
*
February 16
Events Pre-1600
* 1249 – Andrew of Longjumeau is dispatched by Louis IX of France as his ambassador to meet with the Khagan of the Mongol Empire.
* 1270 – The Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeats the Livonian Order in the Battl ...
–
Eric I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Prince of Calenberg (1491–1540) (d.
1540)
*
April 7 –
Edward Stafford, 2nd Earl of Wiltshire (d.
1498)
*
April 9 –
Giovanni Angelo Testagrossa, Italian composer (d.
1530)
*
May 20 –
Pietro Bembo
Pietro Bembo, (; 20 May 1470 – 18 January 1547) was a Venetian scholar, poet, and literary theory, literary theorist who also was a member of the Knights Hospitaller and a cardinal of the Catholic Church. As an intellectual of the Italian Re ...
, Italian cardinal (d.
1547)
*
June 30 –
Charles VIII of France (d.
1498)
*
July 13 –
Francesco Armellini Pantalassi de' Medici
Francesco Armellini Pantalassi de' Medici (13 July 1470 – 8 January 1528) was a Cardinal (Catholicism), cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He was a member of the Roman Curia.
Life
Medici was born in Perugia, Umbria. He was made a car ...
, Italian Catholic cardinal (d.
1528)
*
July 20 –
John Bourchier, 1st Earl of Bath, English noble (d.
1539)
*
July 30 –
Hongzhi Emperor of
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ...
(d.
1505)
*
August 4
**
Bernardo Dovizi, Italian Catholic cardinal (d.
1520)
**
Lucrezia de' Medici, Italian noblewoman (d.
1553)
*
October 2
**
George I of Münsterberg, Imperial Prince, Duke of Münsterberg and Oels, Graf von Glatz (d.
1502)
**
Isabella of Aragon, Queen of Portugal, daughter of
Isabella I of Castile and
Ferdinand II of Aragon
Ferdinand II, also known as Ferdinand I, Ferdinand III, and Ferdinand V (10 March 1452 – 23 January 1516), called Ferdinand the Catholic, was King of Aragon from 1479 until his death in 1516. As the husband and co-ruler of Queen Isabella I of ...
(d.
1498)
**
Isabella of Aragon, Duchess of Milan
Isabella of Aragon (2 October 1470 – 11 February 1524), also known as Isabella of Naples, was by marriage Duchess of Milan and ''suo jure'' Duchess of Bari.
A member of the Neapolitan branch of the House of Trastamara, her life was characteri ...
, daughter of
Alfonso II of Naples
Alfonso II (4 November 1448 – 18 December 1495) was Duke of Calabria and ruled as King of Naples from 25 January 1494 to 23 January 1495. He was a soldier and a patron of Renaissance architecture and the arts.
Heir to his father Fe ...
(d.
1524)
*
October 10 –
Selim I, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (d.
1520)
*
October 15 –
Konrad Mutian, German humanist (d.
1526
Year 1526 (Roman numerals, MDXXVI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–March
* January 14 – Treaty of Madrid (1526), Treaty of Madrid: Peace is declared between Francis I of France and ...
)
*
November 2 – King
Edward V of England, the elder of the "
Princes in the Tower" (d. c.
1483)
*
November 28 –
Wen Zhengming, artist in Ming dynasty China (d.
1559)
*
December 5 –
Willibald Pirckheimer, German humanist (d.
1530)
* ''date unknown''
**
Juan Díaz de Solís, Spanish navigator and explorer (d.
1516)
**
Tang Yin, Chinese painter (d.
1524)
**
Polydore Vergil, Urbinate/English historian (d.
1555)
* ''probable''
**
Matthias Grünewald, German painter (d.
1528)
**
Hayuya, Taino chief (d. unknown)
**
Hugh Latimer, Protestant martyr (d.
1555)
Deaths
*
January 2
Events Pre-1600
* 69 – The Roman legions in Germania Superior refuse to swear loyalty to Galba. They rebel and proclaim Vitellius as emperor.
* 366 – The Alemanni cross the frozen Rhine in large numbers, invading the Roman Emp ...
–
Heinrich Reuß von Plauen, Grand Master of the Teutonic Order
*
March 20 –
Thomas Talbot, 2nd Viscount Lisle, English nobleman killed at the
Battle of Nibley Green (b. c.
1449)
*
May 15 –
Charles VIII of Sweden (b.
1409)
*
August 31 –
Frederick II, Count of Vaudémont (b. c.
1428)
*
October 18 –
John Tiptoft, 1st Earl of Worcester, Lord High Treasurer (b.
1427)
*
November 23 –
Gaston, Prince of Viana (b.
1444)
*
December 16 –
John II, Duke of Lorraine (b.
1425)
* ''date unknown''
**
Domenico da Piacenza, Italian dancing master (b.
1390)
**
Pal Engjëlli, Albanian Catholic clergyman (b.
1416)
* ''probable'' –
Jacopo Bellini, Italian painter (b.
1400)
References
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