1469 Explained

Year 1469 (MCDLXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January - December

• February 4  - Battle of Qarabagh: Uzun Hasan decisively defeats the Timurids of Abu Sa'id Mirza.
• July 24  - Battle of Edgcote: Yorkists are defeated and, in the aftermath, King Edward IV of England is taken prisoner.^[1]
• August–October  - Caister Castle in England is besieged by John de Mowbray, 4th Duke of Norfolk.
• October 19  - Ferdinand II of Aragon marries Isabella I of Castile in Valladolid, bringing about a dynastic union.^[2]

Date unknown

• Sigismund of Austria sells Upper-Elsass (Alsace) to Charles the Bold, in exchange for aid in a war against the Swiss.
• Moctezuma I, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan, dies and is succeeded by Axayacatl.
• Anglo-Hanseatic War breaks out.
• Marsilio Ficino completes his translation of the collected works of Plato, writes Commentary on Plato's Symposium on Love, and starts to work on Platonic Theology.

Births

• February 13  - Elia Levita, Renaissance Hebrew grammarian (d. 1549)
• February 20  - Thomas Cajetan, Italian philosopher (d. 1534)
• March 20  - Cecily of York, English princess (d. 1507)
• November 29  - Guru Nanak, Sikh guru (d. 1539)^[3]
• April 29  - William II, Landgrave of Hesse (d. 1509)
• May 3  - Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian historian and political author (d. 1527)^[4]
• May 31  - King Manuel I of Portugal (d. 1521)
• June 20  - Gian Galeazzo Sforza, Duke of Milan (d. 1494)
• August 4  - Margaret of Saxony, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1528)
• August 26  - King Ferdinand II of Naples (d. 1496)
• date unknown
  • John III of Navarre (d. 1516)
  • Silvio Passerini, Italian politician (d. 1529)
  • Laura Cereta, Italian humanist and feminist (d. 1499)
• probable  - Vasco da Gama, Portuguese explorer (d. 1524)

Deaths

• May 30  - Lope de Barrientos, powerful Castilian bishop and statesman (b. 1382)
• August 12  - Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers (executed) (b. 1405)
• September 25  - Margaret of Brittany, Breton duchess consort (b. 1443)
• October 8/10  - Filippo Lippi, Italian artist (b. 1406)^[5]
• December 2  - Piero di Cosimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (b. 1416)
• December 31  - King Yejong of Joseon (b. 1450)
• date unknown
  • Abu Sa'id Mirza, ruler of Persia and Afghanistan (b. 1424)
  • Niccolò Da Conti, Italian merchant and explorer (b. 1395)
  • Andrew Gray, 1st Lord Gray (b. c. 1390)
  • Moctezuma I, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan, son of Huitzilihuitl (b. 1390)^[6]

Notes and References

1. Book: Keith Dockray. Edward IV: A Sourcebook. 1999. Sutton Pub.. 978-0-7509-1942-5. 65.
2. Book: Norman Davies. Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe. 2011. Penguin Books. 978-0-14-196048-7. 2.
3. Book: Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh. Sikhism. 2004. Infobase Publishing. 978-1-4381-1779-9. 20.
4. Book: Niccolò Machiavelli. The historical, political, and diplomatic writings of Niccolo Machiavelli, tr. by C.E. Detmold. 1882. 16.
5. Book: Kathleen Kuiper. The 100 Most Influential Painters & Sculptors of the Renaissance. 2009. The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. 978-1-61530-004-4. 69.
6. Web site: Moctezuma I el Grande. Biografias y Vidas.com. es. Moctezuma I the Great. June 1, 2019.