1470
This article is about the year 1470. For the hominid fossil known as "Skull 1470", see Homo rudolfensis.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 14th century – 15th century – 16th century |
| Decades: | 1440s 1450s 1460s – 1470s – 1480s 1490s 1500s |
| Years: | 1467 1468 1469 – 1470 – 1471 1472 1473 |
| 1470 by topic |
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| Arts and science |
| Architecture - Art |
| Politics |
| State leaders - Sovereign states |
| Birth and death categories |
| Births - Deaths |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories |
| Establishments - Disestablishments |
| Art and literature |
| 1470 in poetry |
| Gregorian calendar | 1470 MCDLXX |
| Ab urbe condita | 2223 |
| Armenian calendar | 919 ԹՎ ՋԺԹ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6220 |
| 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) 4166 or 4106 — to — 庚寅年 (Metal Tiger) 4167 or 4107 |
| Coptic calendar | 1186–1187 |
| Discordian calendar | 2636 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1462–1463 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5230–5231 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1526–1527 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1392–1393 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4571–4572 |
| Holocene calendar | 11470 |
| Igbo calendar | 470–471 |
| Iranian calendar | 848–849 |
| Islamic calendar | 874–875 |
| Japanese calendar | Bunmei 2 (文明２年) |
| Julian calendar | 1470 MCDLXX |
| Korean calendar | 3803 |
| Minguo calendar | 442 before ROC 民前442年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2012–2013 |
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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.
- March 20 (Julian calendar) – The Battle of Nibley Green is the last fought between the private armies of feudal magnates in England.
- 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 and is recognised by the estates on June 1.
- July 12 – The Ottomans capture Euboea.
- 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.
Date unknown
- Start of the Anglo-Hanseatic War.
- 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 (see also History of Ghana).
- Johann Heynlin introduces the printing press into France and prints his first book that 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 (alchemist) dedicates his book The Compound of Alchemy to the King Edward IV of England.
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, 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, 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)
- George I of Münsterberg, Imperial Prince, Duke of Münsterberg and Oels, Graf von Glatz (d. 1502)
- November 2 – King Edward V of England, one of the princes in the Tower (d. c. 1483)
- November 28 – Wen Zhengming (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
- May 15 – Charles VIII of Sweden (b. 1409)
- 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
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