Events September 23 - Battle of Blore Heath. ... Events The first Portuguese navigators reach the coast of modern Sierra Leone. ... Events February 2 - Battle of Mortimers Cross - Yorkist troops led by Edward, Duke of York defeat Lancastrians under Owen Tudor and his son Jasper Tudor, Earl of Pembroke in Wales. ... Events January 5 - Poet Francois Villon is banned from Paris Births January 17 - Frederick III, Elector of Saxony (died 1525) February 24 - Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Italian philosopher (died 1494) October 20 - Alessandro Achillini, Italian philosopher (died 1512) Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de Medici, ruler of Florence (died 1503) Deaths June... Events February - Christian I of Denmark and Norway who was also serving as King of Sweden is declared deposed from the later throne. ... Events July 13 - Battle of Montlhéry Troops of King Louis XI of France fight inconclusively against an army of the great nobles organized as the League of the Public Weal. ... This is a list of decades which have articles with more information about them. ... 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 ... Centuries: 14th century - 15th century - 16th century Decades: 1430s 1440s 1450s 1460s 1470s - 1480s - 1490s 1500s 1510s 1520s 1530s Years: 1480 1481 1482 1483 1484 1485 1486 1487 1488 1489 Events and Trends Categories: 1480s ... Centuries: 14th century - 15th century - 16th century Decades: 1440s 1450s 1460s 1470s 1480s - 1490s - 1500s 1510s 1520s 1530s 1540s Years: 1490 1491 1492 1493 1494 1495 1496 1497 1498 1499 Events and Trends 1490: Tirant lo Blanc by Joanot Martorell & Martí Joan De Galba is published. ... 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

• Settlers from Portugal begin to settle the Cape Verde islands.
• March 28 - Death of Vasili II of Russia. Succeeded by his son Ivan III of Russia.
• September 17 - Battle of Świecino, called also Battle of Żarnowiec, during Thirteen Years' War
• Winter - Vlad III Dracula, reigning Prince of Wallachia is deposed by the forces of Sultan Mehmed II of the Ottoman Empire and replaced by his younger brother Radu the Handsome.

March 28 is the 87th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (88th in Leap years). ... Vasili II Vasiliyevich Tyomniy (Blind) (Василий II Васильевич Тёмный in Russian) (March 10, 1415 – March 27, 1462) was the Grand Prince of Moscow whose long reign (1425-1462) was plagued by the greatest civil war of medieval Russian history. ... Albus rex Ivan III Ivan III Vasilevich (Иван III Васильевич) (January 22, 1440 - October 27, 1505), also known as Ivan the Great, was a grand duke of Muscovy who first adopted a more pretentious title of the grand duke of all the Russias. Sometimes referred to as the gatherer of the Russian... September 17 is the 260th day of the year (261st in leap years). ... The Battle of Åšwiecino (or Åšwiecin) (named for the village of Åšwiecino, near Å»arnowiec Lake, northern Poland) also called the Battle of Å»arnowiec or in German Battle of Schwetzin, took place on September 17, 1462 during the Thirteen Years War. ... The Thirteen Years War (also called the War of the Cities) started out as an uprising by Prussian cities and the local nobility with the goal of gaining independence from the Teutonic Knights. ... In many parts of the world, winter is associated with snow. ... It has been suggested that Vlad IV be merged into this article or section. ... Map of Romania with Wallachia in yellow. ... Mehmed II Mehmed II, also known as Muhammed II (March 30, 1432 – May 3, 1481; also known as el-Fatih, the Conqueror) was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire for a short time from 1444 to 1446, and later from 1451 to 1481. ... The Ottoman Empire at the height of its power Imperial motto Devlet-i Ebed-müddet (Ottoman Turkish for the Eternal State) Official language Ottoman Turkish Capital Bursa (1335 - 1365), Edirne (1365-1453), Ä°stanbul (Constantinople) (1453-1922) Imperial anthem Ottoman imperial anthem Sovereigns Padishah of the Osmanli Dynasty Population ca... Radu cel Frumos (Radu the Handsome), (1435-1475), was the younger brother of Vlad Ţepeş (Vlad the Impaler; actually Vlad III). ...

Births

• February 1 - Johannes Trithemius, German scholar and cryptographer (died 1516)
• June 27 - Louis XII of France (died 1515)
• Jodocus Badius, Flemish printer (died 1535)
• Joan, princess of Castile (died 1530)
• Edmund Dudley, minister of Henry VII of England (died 1510)
• Piero di Cosimo, Italian artist (died 1521)

February 1 is the 32nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Polygraphia (1518) — the first printed book on cryptography. ... // Events March - With the death of Ferdinand II of Aragon, his grandson Charles of Ghent becomes King of Spain as Carlos I. July - Selim I of the Ottoman Empire declares war on the Mameluks and invades Syria. ... June 27 is the 178th day of the year (179th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 187 days remaining. ... Louis XII Louis XII the Father of the People (French: Louis XII le Père du Peuple) (June 27, 1462 - January 1, 1515) was King of France from 1498-January 1, 1515. ... // Events June - Invasion of Persia by Sultan Selim I of the Ottoman Empire. ... Jodocus Badius (or Josse Badius) (1462-1535) was a pioneer of the printing industry. ... Events January 18 - Lima, Peru founded by Francisco Pizarro April - Jacques Cartier discovers the Iroquois city of Stadacona, Canada (now Quebec) and in May, the even greater Huron city of Hochelaga (now Montreal) June 24 - The Anabaptist state of Münster (see Münster Rebellion) is conquered and disbanded. ... Portrait of Joan the Beltraneja. ... Events June 25 - Augsburg confession presented to Charles V of Holy Roman Empire. ... Edmund Dudley (a. ... Events Conquest of Pskov by Grand Prince Vasili III of Muscovy. ... Portrait of Simonetta Vespucci (c. ... Events January 3 - Pope Leo X excommunicates Martin Luther in the papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem. ...

Deaths

• March 27 - Vasili II of Russia, Grand Prince of Moscow (b. 1415)
• Niccolo of Lesbos, last Prince of Lesbos