1470
This article is about the year 1470. For the hominid fossil known as "Skull 1470", see
Homo rudolfensis .
Calendar year
Europe in 1470
Year 1470 (MCDLXX ) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar .
Events
January–December
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
Births
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
October 2
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
probable
Deaths
References