1469

Year 1469 (MCDLXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

• February 4 – Battle of Qarabagh: Uzun Hasan decisively defeats the Timurids of Abu Sa'id Mirza.
• July 24 – Battle of Edgcote: Yorkists are defeated and, in the aftermath, King Edward IV of England is taken prisoner.
• August–October – Caister Castle in England is besieged by John de Mowbray, 4th Duke of Norfolk.
• October 19 – Ferdinand II of Aragon marries Isabella I of Castile in Valladolid, bringing about a dynastic union.

Date unknown

• Sigismund of Austria sells Upper-Elsass (Alsace) to Charles the Bold, in exchange for aid in a war against the Swiss.
• Moctezuma I, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan, dies and is succeeded by Axayacatl.
• Anglo-Hanseatic War breaks out.
• Marsilio Ficino completes his translation of the collected works of Plato, writes Commentary on Plato's Symposium on Love, and starts to work on Platonic Theology.

Births

• February 13 – Elia Levita, Renaissance Hebrew grammarian (d. 1549)
• February 20 – Thomas Cajetan, Italian philosopher (d. 1534)
• March 20 – Cecily of York, English princess (d. 1507)
• November 29 – Guru Nanak, Sikh guru (d. 1539)
• April 29 – William II, Landgrave of Hesse (d. 1509)
• May 3 – Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian historian and political author (d. 1527)
• May 31 – King Manuel I of Portugal (d. 1521)
• June 20 – Gian Galeazzo Sforza, Duke of Milan (d. 1494)
• August 4 – Margaret of Saxony, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1528)
• August 26 – King Ferdinand II of Naples (d. 1496)
• date unknown
  • John III of Navarre (d. 1516)
  • Silvio Passerini, Italian politician (d. 1529)
  • Laura Cereta, Italian humanist and feminist (d. 1499)
• probable – Vasco da Gama, Portuguese explorer (d. 1524)

Deaths

• May 30 – Lope de Barrientos, powerful Castilian bishop and statesman (b. 1382)
• August 12 – Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers (executed) (b. 1405)
• September 25 – Margaret of Brittany, Breton duchess consort (b. 1443)
• October 8/10 – Filippo Lippi, Italian artist (b. 1406)
• December 2 – Piero di Cosimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (b. 1416)
• December 31 – King Yejong of Joseon (b. 1450)
• date unknown
  • Abu Sa'id Mirza, ruler of Persia and Afghanistan (b. 1424)
  • Niccolò Da Conti, Italian merchant and explorer (b. 1395)
  • Andrew Gray, 1st Lord Gray (b. c. 1390)
  • Moctezuma I, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan, son of Huitzilihuitl (b. 1390)

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