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| Gregorian calendar | 1470 MCDLXX |
| Ab urbe condita | 2223 |
| Armenian calendar | 919 ԹՎ ՋԺԹ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6220 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1391–1392 |
| Bengali calendar | 877 |
| Berber calendar | 2420 |
| English Regnal year | 9 Edw. 4 – 10 Edw. 4 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2014 |
| Burmese calendar | 832 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6978–6979 |
| Chinese calendar | 己丑年 (Earth Ox) 4167 or 3960 — to — 庚寅年 (Metal Tiger) 4168 or 3961 |
| Coptic calendar | 1186–1187 |
| Discordian calendar | 2636 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1462–1463 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5230–5231 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1526–1527 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1391–1392 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4570–4571 |
| Holocene calendar | 11470 |
| Igbo calendar | 470–471 |
| Iranian calendar | 848–849 |
| Islamic calendar | 874–875 |
| Japanese calendar | Bunmei 2 (文明２年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1386–1387 |
| Julian calendar | 1470 MCDLXX |
| Korean calendar | 3803 |
| Minguo calendar | 442 before ROC 民前442年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 2 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2012–2013 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴土牛年 (female Earth-Ox) 1596 or 1215 or 443 — to — 阳金虎年 (male Iron-Tiger) 1597 or 1216 or 444 |
Year 1470 (MCDLXX) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
[edit]January–December
[edit]- March 12 – Wars of the Roses in England – Battle of Losecoat Field: The House of York defeats the House of Lancaster. [1]
- March 20 – The Battle of Nibley Green is the last fought between the private armies of feudal magnates in England.[2]
- Spring: Anglo-Hanseatic War: Hanseatic League 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 – Sten Sture is recognised as Swedish ruler by the estates.
- July 12 – The Ottomans 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
[edit]- 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, 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.
Births
[edit]- January 1 – Magnus I, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg, German noble (d. 1543)
- February 16 – 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, Italian cardinal (d. 1547)[3]
- June 30 – Charles VIII of France (d. 1498)[4]
- July 13 – Francesco Armellini Pantalassi de' Medici, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1528)
- July 20 – John Bourchier, 1st Earl of Bath, English noble (d. 1539)
- July 30 – Hongzhi Emperor of China (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 (d. 1498)
- Isabella of Aragon, Duchess of Milan, daughter of Alfonso II of Naples (d. 1524)
- October 10 – Selim I, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (d. 1520)
- October 15 – Konrad Mutian, German humanist (d. 1526)
- November 2 – King Edward V of England, the elder of the "Princes in the Tower" (d. c. 1483)[5]
- 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
[edit]- January 2 – 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)[2]
- May 15 – Charles VIII of Sweden (b. 1409)[6]
- August 31 – Frederick II, Count of Vaudémont (b. c.1428)[7]
- 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
[edit]- ^ Michael Rayner (2004). English Battlefields: An Illustrated Encyclopaedia. Tempus. p. 212. ISBN 978-0-7524-2978-6.
- ^ a b Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society (2007). Transactions - Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society.
- ^ Pietro Bembo (2007). History of Venice: Books I-IV. Harvard University Press. p. 9. ISBN 978-0-674-02283-6.
- ^ "Charles VIII | king of France". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved October 20, 2020.
- ^ Anne Crawford (February 22, 2007). The Yorkists: The History of a Dynasty. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 119. ISBN 978-0-8264-0989-8.
- ^ The Encyclopedia Americana: The International Reference Work. Americana Corporation of Canada. 1962. p. 323.
- ^ The Genealogist. Association for the Promotion of Scholarship in Genealogy. 1982. p. 38.