Editing 1470

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Year '''1470''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MCDLXX]]''') was a [[common year starting on Monday]] of the [[Julian calendar]].

== 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.

=== Date unknown ===
* 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]].

== Births ==
* [[January 1]] &ndash; [[Magnus I, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg]], German noble (d. [[1543]])
* [[February 16]] &ndash; [[Eric I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg]], Prince of Calenberg (1491–1540) (d. [[1540]])
* [[April 7]] &ndash; [[Edward Stafford, 2nd Earl of Wiltshire]] (d. [[1498]])
* [[April 9]] &ndash; [[Giovanni Angelo Testagrossa]], Italian composer (d. [[1530]])
* [[May 20]] &ndash; [[Pietro Bembo]], Italian cardinal (d. [[1547]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Pietro Bembo|title=History of Venice: Books I-IV|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CgTXoFWBqFMC&pg=PR9|year=2007|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=978-0-674-02283-6|pages=9}}</ref>
* [[June 30]] &ndash; [[Charles VIII of France]] (d. [[1498]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Charles VIII {{!}} king of France |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Charles-VIII |website=Encyclopædia Britannica |access-date=October 20, 2020}}</ref>
* [[July 13]] &ndash; [[Francesco Armellini Pantalassi de' Medici]], Italian Catholic cardinal (d. [[1528]])
* [[July 20]] &ndash; [[John Bourchier, 1st Earl of Bath]], English noble (d. [[1539]])
* [[July 30]] &ndash; [[Hongzhi Emperor]] of [[China]] (d. [[1505]])
* [[August 4]]
** [[Bernardo Dovizi]], Italian Catholic cardinal (d. [[1520]])
** [[Lucrezia de' Medici (1470–1553)|Lucrezia de' Medici]], Italian noblewoman (d. [[1553]])
* [[October 2]]
** [[George I of Münsterberg]], Imperial Prince, Duke of Münsterberg and Oels, Graf von Glatz (d. [[1502]])
** [[Isabella of Aragon, Queen of Portugal]], daughter of [[Isabella I of Castile]] and [[Ferdinand II of Aragon]] (d. [[1498]])
** [[Isabella of Aragon, Duchess of Milan]], daughter of [[Alfonso II of Naples]] (d. [[1524]])
* [[October 10]] &ndash; [[Selim I]], Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (d. [[1520]])
* [[October 15]] &ndash; [[Konrad Mutian]], German humanist (d. [[1526]])
* [[November 2]] &ndash; King [[Edward V]] of England, the elder of the "[[Princes in the Tower]]" (d. c. [[1483]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Anne Crawford|title=The Yorkists: The History of a Dynasty|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uWTnsxLw0sYC&pg=PA119|date=February 22, 2007|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|isbn=978-0-8264-0989-8|pages=119}}</ref>
* [[November 28]] &ndash; [[Wen Zhengming]], artist in Ming dynasty China (d. [[1559]])
* [[December 5]] &ndash; [[Willibald Pirckheimer]], German humanist (d. [[1530]])
* ''date unknown''
** [[Juan Díaz de Solís]], Spanish navigator and explorer (d. [[1516]])
** [[Tang Yin]], Chinese painter (d. [[1524]])
** [[Polydore Vergil]], Urbinate/English historian (d. [[1555]])
* ''probable''
** [[Matthias Grünewald]], German painter (d. [[1528]])
** [[Hayuya]], Taino chief (d. unknown)
** [[Hugh Latimer]], Protestant martyr (d. [[1555]])

== Deaths ==
* [[January 2]] &ndash; [[Heinrich Reuß von Plauen]], Grand Master of the Teutonic Order 
* [[March 20]] &ndash; [[Thomas Talbot, 2nd Viscount Lisle]], English nobleman killed at the [[Battle of Nibley Green]] (b. c.[[1449]])<ref name="Society2007"/>
* [[May 15]] &ndash; [[Charles VIII of Sweden]] (b. [[1409]])<ref>{{cite book|title=The Encyclopedia Americana: The International Reference Work|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vOwaAQAAMAAJ|year=1962|publisher=Americana Corporation of Canada|page=323}}</ref>
* [[August 31]] &ndash; [[Frederick II, Count of Vaudémont]] (b. c.[[1428]])<ref>{{cite book|title=The Genealogist|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qLpnAAAAMAAJ|year=1982|publisher=Association for the Promotion of Scholarship in Genealogy|page=38}}</ref>
* [[October 18]] &ndash; [[John Tiptoft, 1st Earl of Worcester]], Lord High Treasurer (b. [[1427]])
* [[November 23]] &ndash; [[Gaston, Prince of Viana]] (b. [[1444]])
* [[December 16]] &ndash; [[John II, Duke of Lorraine]] (b. [[1425]])
* ''date unknown''
** [[Domenico da Piacenza]], Italian dancing master (b. [[1390]])
** [[Pal Engjëlli]], Albanian Catholic clergyman (b. [[1416]])
* ''probable'' &ndash; [[Jacopo Bellini]], Italian painter (b. [[1400]])

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