Editing 1470 (section)

== Events ==
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=== January&ndash;December ===
* [[March 12]] &ndash; [[Wars of the Roses]] in England &ndash; [[Battle of Losecoat Field]]: The [[House of York]] defeats the [[House of Lancaster]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Michael Rayner|title=English Battlefields: An Illustrated Encyclopaedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X2tnAAAAMAAJ|year=2004|publisher=Tempus|isbn=978-0-7524-2978-6|page=212}}</ref>
* [[March 20]] &ndash; The [[Battle of Nibley Green]] is the last fought between the private armies of feudal magnates in England.<ref name="Society2007">{{cite book|author=Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society|title=Transactions - Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DAMMAQAAMAAJ|year=2007|publisher=Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society}}</ref>
* Spring: [[Anglo-Hanseatic War]]: [[Hanseatic League]] [[privateer]]s set sail.
* [[May 15]] &ndash; [[Charles VIII of Sweden]], who has served three terms as [[List of Swedish monarchs|King of Sweden]], dies. [[Sten Sture the Elder]] proclaims himself Regent of Sweden the following day. 
* [[June 1]] &ndash; Sten Sture is recognised as Swedish ruler by the estates.
* [[July 12]] &ndash; The [[Ottoman Empire|Ottomans]] capture [[Euboea]].
* [[August 20]] &ndash; [[Battle of Lipnic]]: [[Stephen the Great]] defeats the [[Volga Tatars]] of the [[Golden Horde]], led by Ahmed Khan.
* [[September 13]] &ndash; A rebellion orchestrated by King [[Edward IV]] of England's former ally, [[Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick]], forces the King to flee England to seek support from his brother-in-law, [[Charles the Bold]] of Burgundy.  
* [[October 3]] &ndash; Warwick releases [[Henry VI of England]] from the [[Tower of London]], and restores him to the throne.
* [[November 28]] &ndash;  Emperor [[Lê Thánh Tông]] of [[Đại Việt]] launches a naval expedition against [[Champa]], beginning the [[Cham–Annamese War (1471)|Cham–Annamese War]].
* [[December 18]] &ndash; [[Lê Thánh Tông]] leads the [[Đại Việt]] army into [[Champa]], conquering the country in less than three months.

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* The [[Pahang Sultanate]] is established at Pahang Darul Makmur (in modern-day Malaysia).
* The first contact occurs between Europeans and the [[Fante people|Fante]] nation of the [[Gold Coast (British colony)|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 [[Old Swiss Confederacy|Swiss Confederation]]; 5,417 of them are executed.
* Sir [[George Ripley (alchemist)|George Ripley]] dedicates his book, ''The Compound of Alchemy'', to the King [[Edward IV]] of England.</onlyinclude>
* The [[Chimor–Inca War]] ends with an Inca victory. The Chimor Empire is absorbed into the [[Inca Empire]].