This article is about the year 1470.
Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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Centuries: | 14th century – 15th century – 16th century |
Decades: | 1440s 1450s 1460s – 1470s – 1480s 1490s 1500s |
Years: | 1467 1468 1469 – 1470 – 1471 1472 1473 |
1470 by topic |
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Arts and science |
Architecture - Art |
Politics |
State leaders - Sovereign states |
Birth and death categories |
Births - Deaths |
Establishments and disestablishments categories |
Establishments - Disestablishments |
Art and literature |
1470 in poetry |
Gregorian calendar | 1470 MCDLXX |
Ab urbe condita | 2223 |
Armenian calendar | 919 ԹՎ ՋԺԹ |
Assyrian calendar | 6220 |
Bahá'í calendar | -374–-373 |
Bengali calendar | 877 |
Berber calendar | 2420 |
English Regnal year | 9 Edw. 4 – 10 Edw. 4 |
Buddhist calendar | 2014 |
Burmese calendar | 832 |
Byzantine calendar | 6978–6979 |
Chinese calendar | 己丑年十一月廿九日 (4106/4166-11-29) — to —
庚寅年十二月初十日(4107/4167-12-10) |
Coptic calendar | 1186–1187 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1462–1463 |
Hebrew calendar | 5230–5231 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1526–1527 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1392–1393 |
- Kali Yuga | 4571–4572 |
Holocene calendar | 11470 |
Iranian calendar | 848–849 |
Islamic calendar | 874–875 |
Japanese calendar | Bunmei 2 (文明2年) |
Julian calendar | 1470 MCDLXX |
Korean calendar | 3803 |
Minguo calendar | 442 before ROC 民前442年 |
Thai solar calendar | 2013 |
Year 1470 (MCDLXX) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
- March 12 – Wars of the Roses – Battle of Lose-coat Field: The House of York defeats the House of Lancaster.
- May 15 – Charles VIII of Sweden, who had served three terms as King of Sweden, dies. Sten Sture the Elder becomes Regent of Sweden.
- October – A rebellion orchestrated by King Edward's former ally, the Earl of Warwick, forces the King to flee England to seek support from his brother-in-law Charles the Bold of Burgundy.
- October 30 – Warwick releases Henry VI of England from the Tower and restores him to the throne.
Date unknown
- Start of the Anglo-Hanseatic War.
- King Afonso V of Portugal conquers the city of Arzila in North Africa.
- 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 (see also History of Ghana).
- Johann Heynlin introduces the printing press into France and prints his first book that same year.
- In Tonga, in or around 1470, the Tu'i Tonga dynasty cedes its temporal powers to the Tu'i Ha'atakalaua 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 (alchemist) dedicates his book The Compound of Alchemy to the King Edward IV of England.
Births
- April 7 – Edward Stafford, 2nd Earl of Wiltshire (d. 1498)
- May 20 – Pietro Bembo, Italian cardinal (d. 1547)
- June 30 – Charles VIII of France (d. 1498)
- July 30 – Hongzhi Emperor of China (d. 1505)
- October 2 – Isabella, Princess of Asturias, Daughter of Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon (d. 1498)
- November 4 – King Edward V of England, one of the princes in the Tower (d. c. 1483)
- 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)
- probable
- Matthias Grünewald, German painter (d. 1528)
- Hayuya, Taino chief
- Hugh Latimer, Protestant martyr (d. 1555)
Deaths
- January 2 – Heinrich Reuß von Plauen, Grand Master of the Teutonic Order
- May 15 – Charles VIII of Sweden (b. 1409)
- November 23 – Gaston, Prince of Viana (b. 1444)
- December 16 – John II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1425)
- date unknown
- Domenico da Piacenza, Italian dancemaster (b. 1390)
- Pal Engjëlli, Albanian Catholic clergyman (b. 1416)
- probable – Jacopo Bellini, Italian painter (b. 1400)