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 Settlers from Portugal begin to settle the Cape Verde islands. ... 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 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. ... Events Chimú Empire conquered by troops of the Inca End of term for Regent of Sweden Jöns Bengtsson Oxenstierna. ... Events October 29 - Battle of Brusthem: Charles the Bold defeats Liege Beginning of the Sengoku Period in Japan. ... 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

• February - Christian I of Denmark and Norway who was also serving as King of Sweden is declared deposed from the later throne. His deposed predecessor Charles VIII of Sweden is re-elected to the throne.
• April 25 - Battle of Hedgeley Moore - Yorkist forces under Lord Montague defeat Lancastrians under Sir Ralph Percy, who is killed.
• May 1 - Edward IV of England secretly marries Elizabeth Woodville. He keeps the marriage a secret for five months afterwards
• May 15 - Battle of Hexham - Montague defeats another Lancastrian army, this one led by King Henry and Queen Margaret themselves. This marks the end of organized Lancastrian existence for several years.
• End of the reign of Emperor Go-Hanazono of Japan
• Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado ascends to the throne of Japan

February is the second month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Christian I of Denmark (1426 – 1481), Danish monarch and union king of Denmark (1448 – 1481), Norway (1450 – 1481) and Sweden (1457 – 1464), under the Kalmar Union. ... This is a list of Swedish monarchs, that is, the Kings and ruling Queens of Sweden with Regents and Viceroys of the Kalmar Union up until the present time. ... Charles VIII of Sweden, Charles I of Norway, or Karl Knutsson (Bonde), king of Sweden (1448 – 1457, 1464 – 1465 and from 1467 to his death in 1470); king of Norway (1449 – 1450). ... April 25 is the 115th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (116th in leap years). ... May 1 is the 121st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (122nd in leap years). ... Edward IV (April 28, 1442 – April 9, 1483) was King of England from March 4, 1461 to April 9, 1483, with a break of a few months in the period 1470-1471. ... Elizabeth Woodville or Wydville (c. ... May 15 is the 135th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (136th in leap years). ... The Battle of Hexham (May 15, 1464) marked the end of significant Lancastrian resistance in the north of England during the early part of the reign of Edward IV. John Neville, later to be 1st Marquess of Montagu, led a modest force of 3,000_4,000 men, routed the rebel... Henry VI (December 6, 1421 – May 21/22, 1471) was King of England from 1422 to 1461 (though with a Regent until 1437) and then from 1470 to 1471. ... Margaret of Anjou (March 23, 1429 - August 25, 1482) was the Queen consort of Henry VI of England from 1445 to 1471, and a major proponent in the Wars of the Roses. ... Emperor Go-Hanazono (後花園天皇) (July 10, 1419 - January 18, 1471) was the 102nd imperial ruler of Japan, reigning from September 7, 1428 until August 21, 1464. ... Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado (jp: 後土御門天皇) (July 3, 1442 – October 21, 1500) was the 103rd imperial ruler of Japan. ...

Births

• November 19 - Emperor Go-Kashiwabara of Japan (died 1526)
• Nezahualpilli, Aztec ruler (died 1515)

November 19 is the 323rd day of the year (324th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Emperor Go-Kashiwabara (後柏原天皇) (November 19, 1464 - May 19, 1526) was the 104th imperial ruler of Japan. ... Events January 14 - Treaty of Madrid. ... Nezahualpilli (1464-1515) was king of Texcoco. ... // Events June - Invasion of Persia by Sultan Selim I of the Ottoman Empire. ...

Deaths

• February 23 - Zhengtong Emperor, of the Ming dynasty of China (born 1427)
• May 17 - Thomas de Ros, 10th Baron de Ros (born 1427)
• August 1 - Cosimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (born 1389)
• August 11 - Nicholas of Cusa, German cardinal (born 1401)
• August 14 - Pope Pius II (born 1405)
• John Capgrave, English historian and theologian (born 1393)
• Bernardo Rossellino, Florentine sculptor and architect
• Desiderio da Settignano, Italian sculptor (born c. 1430)
• Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke of Somerset (born 1436)