1470 Explained

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

• 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

• 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

• 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)

Notes and References

1. Book: Michael Rayner. English Battlefields: An Illustrated Encyclopaedia. 2004. Tempus. 978-0-7524-2978-6. 212.
2. Book: Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. Transactions - Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. 2007. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society.
3. Book: Pietro Bembo. History of Venice: Books I-IV. 2007. Harvard University Press. 978-0-674-02283-6. 9.
4. Web site: Charles VIII king of France . Encyclopedia Britannica . 20 October 2020 . en.
5. Book: Anne Crawford. The Yorkists: The History of a Dynasty. 22 February 2007. Bloomsbury Publishing. 978-0-8264-0989-8. 119.
6. Book: The Encyclopedia Americana: The International Reference Work. 1962. Americana Corporation of Canada. 323.
7. Book: The Genealogist. 1982. Association for the Promotion of Scholarship in Genealogy. 38.