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1470s
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Events and trends
1.1
1470
1.2
1471
1.3
1472
1.4
1474
1.5
1475
1.6
1476
1.7
1477
1.8
1478
1.9
1479
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Prominent persons
Millennium
:
2nd millennium
Centuries
:
14th century
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15th century
-
16th century
Decades
:
1440s
1450s
1460s
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1470s
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1480s
1490s
1500s
Years:
1470
1471
1472
1473
1474
1475
1476
1477
1478
1479
Categories:
Births
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Deaths
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Architecture
Establishments
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Disestablishments
Events and trends
1470
Battle of Negropont
Venetian fleet failed to relieve the colony of
Negropont
, which was under Turkish attack
March 12
-
Battle of Lose-coat Field
(
Wars of the Roses
): Yorkists chased disrobing Lancastrians from the field.
August 20
-
Battle of Lipnic
;
Ştefan cel Mare
defeated the
Tatars
.
Around this date, the
Tu'i Tonga
dynasty lost
temporal power
over
Tonga
and the remnants of the
Tongan Empire
, after almost six centuries of rule. The
Tu'i Ha'atakalaua
dynasty ascended in its place.
1471
14 April
-
Battle of Barnet
: Yorkist victory,
Warwick the Kingmaker
was killed.
4 May
-
Battle of Tewkesbury
-
Edward IV of England
's final victory over the
House of Lancaster
.
October 10
- The
Battle of Brunkeberg
occurred between Denmark and Sweden.
1472
May 31
-
Treaty of Prenzlau
was made between
Albert III, Elector of Brandenburg
and the rulers of
Pomerania
.
1474
Siege of Neuss
Charles the Bold
led unsuccessful siege during
Burgundy Wars
.
Battle of Héricourt
Burgundy was defeated.
1475
January 10
-
Battle of Vaslui
-
Ştefan cel Mare
defeated a huge
Ottoman
army.
August 29
-
Treaty of Picquigny
-
Louis XI
paid
Edward IV
to stay in England and relinquish his claim on the French throne.
November -
Battle on the Planta
(
Burgundy Wars
)
The
Second Castilian Civil War
began.
1476
March 2
-
Battle of Grandson
June 2
-
Battle of Morat
July 26
-
Battle of Valea Albă
-
Mehmed II
defeats
Ştefan cel Mare
1477
January 5
-
Battle of Nancy
-
Burgundy
's
Charles the Bold
is killed.
1478
Battle of Macomer -
Sardinian
rebels were defeated by the
Aragonese
.
1479
January 20
-
Ferdinand II
took the throne of
Aragon
. Ferdinand and his wife,
Isabella
, the
Queen of Castile
, now ruled over most of the
Iberian peninsula
.
January 25
- The
Treaty of Constantinople
officially ended the fifteen year war between
Venice
and the
Ottoman Empire
.
The
Peace of Olomouc
concluded the war between
King Ladislaus II
and
Matthias Corvinus
.
September 4
- The
Treaty of Alcáçovas
between Castile and Portugal ended the Second Castilian Civil War, which had begun in 1475.
October - The
Battle of Câmpia Pâinii
occurred, in which the
Kingdom of Hungary
defeated the
Ottoman Empire
and
Wallachia
.
Prominent persons
Nicolaus Copernicus
,
astronomer
and
mathematician
A map of
Europe
in the 1470s.
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:
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