1470s

1470s

Events and trends

1470

* Battle of Negropont Venetian fleet fails to relieve colony of Negropont under Turkish attack
* March 12 - Battle of Lose-coat Field (Wars of the Roses): Yorkists chase disrobing Lancastrians from the field
* August 20 - Battle of Lipnic; Ştefan cel Mare defeats the Tatars
* Around this date, the Tu'i Tonga dynasty loses temporal power over Tonga and the remnants of the Tongan Empire, after almost six centuries of rule. The Tu'i Ha'atakalaua dynasty ascends in its place.

1471

* 14 April - Battle of Barnet: Yorkist victory, Warwick the Kingmaker killed.
* 4 May - Battle of Tewkesbury - Edward IV of England's final victory over the House of Lancaster
* October 10 - Battle of Brunkeberg between Denmark and Sweden.

1472

* May 31 - Treaty of Prenzlau between Albert III, Elector of Brandenburg and the rulers of Pomerania.

1474

* Siege of Neuss Charles the Bold leads unsuccessful siege during Burgundy Wars.
* Battle of Héricourt Burgundy is defeated.

1475

* January 10 - Battle of Vaslui - Ştefan cel Mare defeats a huge Ottoman army
* August 29 - Treaty of Picquigny - Louis XI pays Edward IV to stay in England and relinquish his claim on the French throne.
* November - Battle on the Planta (Burgundy Wars)

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 are defeated by the Aragonese.

1479

* January 20 - Ferdinand II ascends the throne of Aragon and rules together with his wife Isabella, queen of Castile over most of the Iberian peninsula.
* January 25 - Treaty of Constantinople officially ends the fifteen year war between Venice and the Ottoman Empire.
* Peace of Olomouc ends war between Ladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary and Matthias Corvinus.
* September 4 - Treaty of Alcáçovas between Castile and Portugal ends the Castilian Civil War begun in 1474.
* October - Battle of Câmpia Pâinii -

Prominent persons

* Nicolaus Copernicus, astronomer and mathematician


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