Editing 15th century (section)

===[[1460s]]===
[[File:Cacicazgos mayas - es.svg|thumbnail|The seventeen Kuchkabals of Yucatán after The League of Mayapan in 1461.]]
*[[1461]]: The [[League of Mayapan]] disintegrates. The league is replaced by seventeen [[Kuchkabal]].
* [[1461]]: The city of [[Sarajevo]] is founded by the [[Ottoman Empire|Ottomans]].
* [[1461]]:
** [[2 February]] – [[Battle of Mortimer's Cross]]: Yorkist troops led by [[Edward IV of England|Edward, Duke of York]] defeat Lancastrians under [[Owen Tudor]] and his son [[Jasper Tudor, Earl of Pembroke]] in [[Wales]].
** [[17 February]] – [[Second Battle of St Albans]], [[England]]: The [[Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick|Earl of Warwick]]'s army is defeated by a Lancastrian force under [[Margaret of Anjou|Queen Margaret]], who recovers control of her husband.
** [[4 March]] – The Duke of York seizes London and proclaims himself King [[Edward IV of England]].
** [[5 March]] – [[Henry VI of England]] is deposed by the [[Duke of York]] during [[war of the Roses]].
** [[29 March]] – [[Battle of Towton]]: Edward IV defeats Queen Margaret to make good his claim to the English throne (thought to be the bloodiest battle ever fought in England).
** [[28 June]] – Edward, Richard of York's son, is crowned as [[Edward IV of England|Edward IV]], King of England (reigns until [[1483]]).
** July – [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantine]] general [[Graitzas Palaiologos]] honourably surrenders [[Salmeniko Castle]], last garrison of the [[Despotate of the Morea]], to invading forces of the [[Ottoman Empire]] after a year-long siege.[[File:Europe in 1470.PNG|thumb|Political map of Europe in 1470]]
** [[22 July]] – [[Louis XI of France]] succeeds [[Charles VII of France]] as king (reigns until [[1483]]).
* [[1462]]: [[Sonni Ali|Sonni Ali Ber]], the ruler of the [[Songhai Empire|Songhai (or Songhay) Empire]], along the [[Niger River]], conquers [[Mali Empire|Mali]] in the central [[Sudan]] by defeating the [[Tuareg people|Tuareg]] contingent at [[Timbuktu|Tombouctou]] (or [[Timbuktu]]) and capturing the city. He develops both his own capital, [[Gao]], and the main centres of Mali, Timbuktu and [[Djenné]], into major cities. Ali Ber controls trade along the Niger River with a navy of war vessels.
* [[1462]]: [[Mehmed the Conqueror]] is driven back by [[Wallachia]]n prince [[Vlad III Dracula]] at [[The Night Attack]].
* [[1464]]: [[Edward IV of England]] secretly marries [[Elizabeth Woodville]].
* [[1465]]: The [[1465 Moroccan revolt]] ends in the murder of the last [[Marinid]] Sultan of Morocco [[Abd al-Haqq II]].
* [[1466]]: Singhawikramawardhana, succeeds Girishawardhana as ruler of Majapahit.<ref name="RICKLEFSp18" />
* [[1467]]: [[Uzun Hasan]] defeats the [[Kara Koyunlu|Black Sheep Turkoman]] leader [[Jahan Shah|Jahān Shāh]].
* [[1467]]–1615: The [[Sengoku period]] is one of civil war in Japan.
* [[1469]]: The marriage of [[Ferdinand II of Aragon]] and [[Isabella I of Castile]] leads to the unification of [[Spain]].[[File:Matthias Corvinus.jpg|thumb|upright|The [[renaissance]] king [[Matthias Corvinus of Hungary]]. His mercenary standing army (the [[Black Army of Hungary|Black Army]]) had the strongest military potential of its era.]]
* [[1469]]: [[Matthias Corvinus of Hungary]] conquers some parts of [[Bohemia]].
* [[1469]]: Birth of [[Guru Nanak Dev]]. Beside followers of [[Sikhism]], Guru Nanak is revered by [[Hindus]] and [[Muslim Sufis]] across the [[Indian subcontinent]].
* [[1469]]: Reign of [[Axayacatl]] begins in the [[Aztec]] capital of [[Tenochtitlan]] as the sixth ''[[tlatoani]]'' and emperor of the [[Aztec Triple Alliance]].