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* [[Vlad II Dracul]] seizes the recently vacated throne of [[Wallachia]], with Hungarian support.
* The [[Bosnian language]] is first mentioned in a document.
* Date of the [[Visoko]]m papers, the last direct sources on the [[old town of Visoki]].
* In [[Ming dynasty]] China, the inauguration of the [[Zhengtong Emperor]] takes place.
* In Ming dynasty China, a significant portion of the southern grain tax is commuted to payments in [[silver]], known as the Gold Floral Silver (''{{lang|zh|jinhuayin}}''). This comes about due to officials' and military generals' increasing demands to be paid in silver instead of grain, as commercial transactions draw more silver into nationwide circulation. Some counties have trouble transporting all the required grain to meet their tax quotas, so it makes sense to pay the government in silver, a [[medium of exchange]] that is already abundant amongst landowners, through their own private commercial affairs.
* The [[Florence|Florentine]] polymath [[Leon Battista Alberti]] begins writing the treatise ''On Painting'', in which he argues for the importance of mathematical perspective, in the creation of three-dimensional vision on a two-dimensional plane. This follows the ideas of [[Masaccio]], and his concepts of [[linear perspective]] and [[vanishing point]] in artwork.
* [[Afonso Gonçalves Baldaia]] becomes the first European to explore the western coast of Africa, past the [[Tropic of Cancer]].
* [[Johannes Gutenberg]] begins work on the [[printing press]].</onlyinclude>