Year 1470

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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. 
  • March 20 (Julian calendar) – The Battle of Nibley Green is the last fought between the private armies of feudal magnates in England.
  • 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 Sure is recognised as Swedish ruler by the estates.
  • July 12 – The Ottomans capture Euboea.
  • August 20 – Stephen the Great defeats the Volga Tatars of the Golden Horde led by Ahmed Khan, in the Battle of Lipnic.
  • 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 Vietnam 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).
  • History of Ghana: 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

  • 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)
  • June 30 – Charles VIII of France (d. 1498)
  • 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
    • 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 King Alfonso II of Naples (d. 1524)
    • George I of Münsterberg, Imperial Prince, Duke of Münsterberg and Oels, Graf von Glatz (d. 1502)
  • 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)
  • November 28 – Wen Zhengming, artist during the Ming Dynasty (d. 1559)
  • December 5 – Willibald Pirckheimer, German humanist (d. 1530)
  • date unknown
    • Thomas Cajetan, Italian theologian and cardinal (d. 1534)
    • Juan Díaz de Solís, Spanish navigator and explorer (d. 1516)
    • Wen Zhengming, Chinese painter (d. 1559)
    • Tang Yin, Chinese painter (d. 1524)
  • probable
    • Matthias Grünewald, German painter (d. 1528)
    • Hayuya, Taino chief
    • Hugh Latimer, Protestant martyr (d. 1555)

Deaths

  • 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)
  • 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)