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== Events ==
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=== January&ndash;December ===
* [[January 18]] &ndash; The [[Order of Our Lady of Bethlehem]] is founded by [[Pope Pius II]], to defend the island of [[Lemnos]].
* [[September 23]] &ndash; [[Wars of the Roses]]: [[Battle of Blore Heath]] in [[Kingdom of England|England]] &ndash; [[Yorkist]]s under [[Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury]], defeat a [[House of Lancaster|Lancastrian]] force.<ref>{{cite book|author=John Sadler|title=The Red Rose and the White: The Wars of the Roses, 1453-1487|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DI2rAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT86|date=14 January 2014|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-317-90517-2|pages=86}}</ref>
* [[October 12]] &ndash; Wars of the Roses: With a royal force advancing on his fortress at [[Ludlow]], [[Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York]], flees to Ireland, while his ally [[Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick]] (Warwick the Kingmaker, eldest son of the Earl of Salisbury) goes to [[Calais]].

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* The [[Wallachia]]n town of [[Bucharest]] is first mentioned.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Sonnenburg |first1=Stephan |last2=Baker |first2=Laura |title=Branded Spaces: Experience Enactments and Entanglements |date=February 26, 2013 |publisher=Springer Science & Business Media |isbn=978-3-658-01561-9 |page=236 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6WQ_AAAAQBAJ&pg=PA236 |language=en}}</ref>
* The city of [[Jodhpur]], in western India, is founded by [[Rao Jodha]] of [[Marwar]].
* [[Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York|Richard, Duke of York]], [[Lord Lieutenant of Ireland]], returns on a second visit to Ireland.<ref name="FO">''The Oxford Illustrated History of Ireland.'' Foster, RF. Oxford University Press, Oxford. 1989</ref>  The Irish Parliament, meeting at [[Drogheda]], upholds his authority against [[Henry VI of England|Henry VI]], and an English Act of [[Attainder]]. 
* [[Richard Hygons]], English composer, begins fifty years of service at [[Wells Cathedral]].

=== Religion ===
* King [[Thomas of Bosnia]] forces the clergy of the Bosnian Church into exile.
* According to a legend, the wedding of [[Christian Rosenkreuz]] takes place.</onlyinclude>