Explore 102 historical events from 1460–1469.
Henry Medwall was the first known English vernacular dramatist. Fulgens and Lucrece (c.1497), whose heroine must choose between two suitors, is the earliest known secular English…
Henry Medwall, first known English vernacular dramatist (died 1501)
Pietro Pomponazzi was an Italian philosopher. He is sometimes known by his Latin name, Petrus Pomponatius.
Pietro Pomponazzi, Italian philosopher (died 1525)
Engelbert of Cleves, Count of Nevers was the younger son of John I, Duke of Cleves and Elizabeth of Nevers, only surviving child of John II, Count of Nevers.
Engelbert, Count of Nevers, younger son of John I, Duke of Cleves (died 1506)
Catherine Asenina Zaccaria or Catherine Palaiologina was the daughter of the Prince of Achaea, Centurione II Zaccaria and a Byzantine lady hailing from the prestigious houses of As…
Catherine Zaccaria, Despotess of the Morea
The Hungarian–Ottoman wars were a series of battles between the Ottoman Empire and the medieval Kingdom of Hungary. Following the Byzantine Civil War, the Ottoman capture of Gallip…
Hungarian–Ottoman Wars: Wallachian forces led by Vlad Dracula attacked an Ottoman camp at night in an unsuccessful attem
The Ottoman conquest of Lesbos took place in September 1462. The Ottoman Empire, under Sultan Mehmed II, laid siege to the island's capital, Mytilene. After its surrender, the othe…
The Ottoman conquest of Lesbos ended upon the surrender of commander Niccolò Gattilusio; the conquering Mehmed II…
Edward IV was King of England from 4 March 1461 to 3 October 1470, then again from 11 April 1471 until he died in 1483. A member of the House of York, he was a central figure in th…
Edward, Earl of March, is crowned King Edward IV of England
The Ming dynasty, officially the Great Ming, was an imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 1368 to 1644, following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty. The Ming was the …
The Ming dynasty Chinese military general Cao Qin stages a coup against the Tianshun Emperor.
The Empire of Trebizond or the Trapezuntine Empire was one of the three Byzantine rump states of the Byzantine Empire that existed during the 13th through to the 15th century. The …
The Empire of Trebizond surrenders to the forces of Sultan Mehmed II. This is regarded by some historians as the real…
Raffaele Sansoni Galeoti Riario was an Italian cardinal of the Renaissance, mainly known as the constructor of the Palazzo della Cancelleria and the person who invited Michelangelo…
Raffaele Riario, Italian cardinal (died 1521)
Alexander Jagiellon was Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1492 and King of Poland from 1501 until his death in 1506. He was the fourth son of Casimir IV Jagiellon and a member of the Ja…
Alexander Jagiellon, Polish king (died 1506)
Jacopo Salviati was a Florentine politician and son-in-law of Lorenzo de' Medici.
Jacopo Salviati, Italian politician (died 1533)
Domenico Veneziano was an Italian painter of the early Renaissance, active mostly in Perugia and Tuscany.
Domenico Veneziano, Italian painter (born c
Stephen Thomas, a member of the House of Kotromanić, reigned from 1443 until his death as the penultimate king of Bosnia.
Thomas, king of Bosnia (born 1411)
Charles VII, called the Victorious or the Well-Served, was King of France from 1422 to his death in 1461. His reign saw the end of the Hundred Years' War and a de facto end of the …
Charles VII of France (born 1403)
Charles, Prince of Viana, sometimes called Charles IV of Navarre, was the eldest son of King John II of Aragon and Queen Blanche I of Navarre. He pre-deceased his father.
Charles, Prince of Viana, King of Navarre (born 1421)
Jean Poton de Xaintrailles, a minor noble of Gascon origin, was one of the chief lieutenants of Joan of Arc.
Jean Poton de Xaintrailles, follower of Joan of Arc (born c. 1390)
Edward IV was King of England from 4 March 1461 to 3 October 1470, then again from 11 April 1471 until he died in 1483. A member of the House of York, he was a central figure in th…
Edward IV was crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey
The Ming dynasty, officially the Great Ming, was an imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 1368 to 1644, following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty. The Ming was the …
Ming Chinese general Cao Qin staged a failed coup against the Tianshun Emperor.
The Byzantine–Ottoman wars were a series of decisive conflicts between the Byzantine Greeks and Ottoman Turks and their allies that led to the final destruction of the Byzantine Em…
Byzantine–Ottoman wars: The Empire of Trebizond, the longest-surviving Byzantine successor state, was conquered by…
The Wars of the Roses, known at the time and in following centuries as the Civil Wars, were a series of armed confrontations, machinations, battles and campaigns fought for control…
War of the Roses: Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, and Edward, Earl of March, land in England with a rebel army an
Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, 6th Earl of Salisbury, known as Warwick the Kingmaker, was an English nobleman, administrator, landowner of the House of Neville fortune and …
Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, defeats the king's Lancastrian forces and takes King Henry VI prisoner in the…
The capture of Roxburgh was a siege that took place during the Anglo-Scottish Wars. Following the Second War of Scottish Independence intermittent conflict continued along the Angl…
The Kingdom of Scotland captures Roxburgh, one of the last English strongholds in Scotland, following a siege.
Frederick I of Ansbach and Bayreuth was born at Ansbach as the eldest son of Albert III, Margrave of Brandenburg, and his second wife Anna, daughter of Frederick II, Elector of Sax…
Frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (died 1536)