1470

Year 1470 (MCDLXX) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1470 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1470
MCDLXX
Ab urbe condita2223
Armenian calendar919
ԹՎ ՋԺԹ
Assyrian calendar6220
Balinese saka calendar1391–1392
Bengali calendar877
Berber calendar2420
English Regnal year9 Edw. 4  10 Edw. 4
Buddhist calendar2014
Burmese calendar832
Byzantine calendar6978–6979
Chinese calendar己丑年 (Earth Ox)
4166 or 4106
     to 
庚寅年 (Metal Tiger)
4167 or 4107
Coptic calendar1186–1187
Discordian calendar2636
Ethiopian calendar1462–1463
Hebrew calendar5230–5231
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1526–1527
 - Shaka Samvat1391–1392
 - Kali Yuga4570–4571
Holocene calendar11470
Igbo calendar470–471
Iranian calendar848–849
Islamic calendar874–875
Japanese calendarBunmei 2
(文明2年)
Javanese calendar1386–1387
Julian calendar1470
MCDLXX
Korean calendar3803
Minguo calendar442 before ROC
民前442年
Nanakshahi calendar2
Thai solar calendar2012–2013
Tibetan calendar阴土牛年
(female Earth-Ox)
1596 or 1215 or 443
     to 
阳金虎年
(male Iron-Tiger)
1597 or 1216 or 444
Europe in 1470

Events

JanuaryDecember

Date unknown

  • The Pahang Sultanate is established at Pahang Darul Makmur (in modern-day Malaysia).
  • History of Ghana: 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
    • 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 King Alfonso II of Naples (d. 1524)
    • George I of Münsterberg, Imperial Prince, Duke of Münsterberg and Oels, Graf von Glatz (d. 1502)
  • 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 during the Ming Dynasty (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)
    • 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)

References

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