Events The community of Rauma, Finland was granted its town rights. ... Events Albanians, under Skanderbeg, defeat the Turks John Hunyadi defeats Turks at the Battle of Nis Vlad II Dracul begins his second term as ruler of Wallachia, succeeding Basarab II. Births January 27 - Albert, Duke of Saxony (died 1500) February 23 - Matthias Corvinus of Hungary (died 1490) May 17 - Edmund... Events March 1 - Gjergj Kastriot Skanderbeg proclaimed commander of the Albanian resistance April 16 - Truce of Tours. ... Events Mehmed II Sultan of the Ottoman Empire is forced to abdicate in favor of his father Murad II by the Janissaries. ... Events March 6 - Nicholas V becomes Pope. ... Events January 5/ 6 - Christopher of Bavaria, Norway and Sweden dies with no designated heir leaving all three kingdoms with vacant thrones. ... This is a list of decades which have articles with more information about them. ... Centuries: 14th century - 15th century - 16th century Decades: 1360s 1370s 1380s 1390s 1400s - 1410s - 1420s 1430s 1440s 1450s 1460s Years: 1410 1411 1412 1413 1414 1415 1416 1417 1418 1419 Events and Trends Categories: 1410s ... Centuries: 14th century - 15th century - 16th century Decades: 1370s 1380s 1390s 1400s 1410s - 1420s - 1430s 1440s 1450s 1460s 1470s Years: 1420 1421 1422 1423 1424 1425 1426 1427 1428 1429 Events and Trends Categories: 1420s ... Centuries: 14th century - 15th century - 16th century Decades: 1380s 1390s 1400s 1410s 1420s - 1430s - 1440s 1450s 1460s 1470s 1480s Years: 1430 1431 1432 1433 1434 1435 1436 1437 1438 1439 Events and Trends Categories: 1430s ... Events and Trends Categories: 1440s ... Centuries: 14th century - 15th century - 16th century Decades: 1400s 1410s 1420s 1430s 1440s - 1450s - 1460s 1470s 1480s 1490s 1500s Years: 1450 1451 1452 1453 1454 1455 1456 1457 1458 1459 Events and Trends Fall of Constantinople on May 29, 1453. ... Centuries: 14th century - 15th century - 16th century Decades: 1410s 1420s 1430s 1440s 1450s - 1460s - 1470s 1480s 1490s 1500s 1510s Years: 1460 1461 1462 1463 1464 1465 1466 1467 1468 1469 Events and Trends Sonni Ali, first Songhai king, conquers many of his African neighbors. ... Centuries: 14th century - 15th century - 16th century Decades: 1420s 1430s 1440s 1450s 1460s - 1470s - 1480s 1490s 1500s 1510s 1520s Years: 1470 1471 1472 1473 1474 1475 1476 1477 1478 1479 Events and Trends battle of Avenches 1476 Prominent Persons Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish astronomer Categories: 1470s ... These pages contain the trends of millennia and centuries. ... This 14th-century statue from south India depicts the gods Shiva (on the left) and Uma (on the right}. It is housed in the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. As a means of recording the passage of time, the 14th century was that century which lasted from 1301 to... (14th century - 15th century - 16th century - other centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 15th century was that century which lasted from 1401 to 1500. ... (15th century - 16th century - 17th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 16th century was that century which lasted from 1501 to 1600. ...

Events

• Discovery of Senegal and Cape Verde by Dinas Diaz

Births

• March 1 - Sandro Botticelli, Italian painter (died 1510)
• March 16 - Johann Geiler von Kaisersberg, Swiss-born preacher (died 1510)
• Albert Brudzewski, Polish astronomer (died 1497)
• Nicolas Chuquet, French mathematician

March 1 is the 60th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (61st in leap years). ... Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi, better known as Sandro Botticelli (little barrel) (Florence March 1, 1445 – May 17, 1510) was an Italian painter of the Florentine school during the Early Renaissance (Quattrocento). ... Events Conquest of Pskov by Grand Prince Vasili III of Muscovy. ... March 16 is the 75th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (76th in Leap years). ... Johann Geiler von Kaisersberg (March 16, 1445 - March 10, 1510), German preacher, considered one of the greatest of the popular preachers of the 15th century, was born at Schaffhausen on the 16th of March 1445, but from 1448 passed his childhood and youth at Kaisersberg in Upper Alsace, from which... Events Conquest of Pskov by Grand Prince Vasili III of Muscovy. ... Albert Blar Brudzewski, Wojciech Brudzewski, Albert of Brudzewo in Masovia (Latin Albertus de Brudzewo) (1445_1497) Polish astronomer and mathematician, a prominent professor at the University of Kraków, where he stayed for twenty years. ... Events May 10 - Amerigo Vespucci allegedly leaves Cádiz for his first voyage to the New World. ... Nicolas Chuquet (born 1445 (some sources say c. ...

Deaths

• June 5 - Leonel Power, English composer
• June 11 - Henry de Beauchamp, 1st Duke of Warwick (born 1424)
• August 8 - Oswald von Wolkenstein, Tyrolian composer, poet, diplomat, traveler (born 1377)
• Joan Beaufort, Queen of Scotland
• Olug Moxammat, khan of Kazan Khanate