Explore 87 historical events from 1460–1469.
Ottaviano Petrucci was an Italian printer. His Harmonice Musices Odhecaton, a collection of chansons printed in 1501, is commonly misidentified as the first book of sheet music pri…
Ottaviano Petrucci, Italian printer (died 1539)
Giovanni Sforza d'Aragona was an Italian condottiero, lord of Pesaro and Gradara from 1483 until his death. He is best known as the first husband of Lucrezia Borgia. Their marriage…
Giovanni Sforza, Italian nobleman (died 1510)
Francesco II Gonzaga was Marquis of Mantua from 1484 until his death. A prominent condottiero and statesman during the Italian Wars, he is best known for commanding the Italian lea…
Francesco II Gonzaga, Marquess of Mantua (died 1519)
Ashikaga Yoshitane , also known as Ashikaga Yoshiki , was the 10th shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate who headed the shogunate first from 1490 to 1493 and then again from 1508 to 152…
Ashikaga Yoshitane, Japanese shōgun (died 1523)
The 1465 Fez revolt was a popular uprising in the Marinid capital of Fez against Sultan Abd al-Haqq II, the final ruler of the Marinid dynasty, and his Jewish vizier, Harun ibn Bat…
During the 1465 Moroccan revolution which overthrows the Marinid dynasty, the Jewish mellah is attacked by the populatio
Mercurino Arborio, marchese di Gattinara, was an Italian statesman and jurist who served, from 1518 to 1530, as the principal chancellor of Charles V, the King of Spain and the Hol…
Mercurino Gattinara, Italian statesman and jurist (died 1530)
Isabella of Balzo was a Queen consort of Naples. She was the second consort and only Queen consort of Frederick of Naples. Isabella was also suo jure Duchess of Andria and Venosa a…
Isabella del Balzo, Queen Consort of Naples (died 1533)
Philibert I, surnamed the Hunter, was the son of Amadeus IX, Duke of Savoy and Yolande of Valois. Philibert was Duke of Savoy from 1472 to 1482.
Philibert I, Duke of Savoy (died 1482)
Bernardo Accolti was an Italian poet.
Bernardo Accolti, Italian poet (died 1536)
Thomas Palaiologos was Despot of the Morea from 1428 until the fall of the despotate in 1460, although he continued to claim the title until his death five years later. He was the …
Thomas Palaiologos, Despot of Morea (born 1409)
Kettil Karlsson (Vasa) (c. 1433 – 11 August 1465) was a Swedish clergyman, diplomat, military leader and statesman during the Kalmar Union era. He was a member of the house of Vasa…
Kettil Karlsson, regent of Sweden and Bishop of Linköping (born 1433)
The House of York was a cadet branch of the English royal House of Plantagenet. It fought with the House of Lancaster, another cadet branch of the House of Plantagenet, for the Eng…
A Yorkist army under the Baron Montagu defeats a Lancastrian army under the Duke of Somerset in the battle of Hedgeley M
Pope Paul II, born Pietro Barbo, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 30 August 1464 to his death in 1471. When his maternal uncle became Pope Eugene …
Paul II succeeds Pius II as pope of the Catholic Church.
Joan of France, sometimes called Joan the Lame, was briefly Queen of France as wife of King Louis XII, in between the death of her brother, King Charles VIII, and the annulment of…
Joan of France, Duchess of Berry (died 1505)
Robert Fayrfax was an English Renaissance composer, considered the most prominent and influential of the reigns of Kings Henry VII and Henry VIII of England. He represents the thir…
Robert Fayrfax, English Renaissance composer (died 1521)
Sophia Jagiellon was a princess of the Kingdom of Poland and of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, member of the Jagiellonian dynasty, great-granddaughter of Emperor Sigismund and by ma…
Sophia Jagiellon, Margravine of Brandenburg-Ansbach, Polish princess (died 1512)
Barbara of Brandenburg, a member of the German House of Hohenzollern, was by birth Margravine of Brandenburg, and by her two marriages, Duchess of Głogów from 1472 to 1476, and Que…
Barbara of Brandenburg, Bohemian queen (died 1515)
Ernest II of Saxony held two episcopal titles: Archbishop of Magdeburg ; Administrator of the Diocese of Halberstadt.
Ernst II of Saxony, Archbishop of Magdeburg (1476–1513) (died 1513)
Clara Gonzaga, Countess of Montpensier, Dauphine of Auvergne, Duchess of Sessa was an Italian noblewoman of the House of Gonzaga. She was the daughter of Federico I Gonzaga, Marque…
Clara Gonzaga, Italian noble (died 1503)
Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke of Somerset was an English nobleman and army commander for the House of Lancaster during the English Wars of the Roses. He is sometimes numbered the 2nd Du…
Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke of Somerset (born 1436)
Thomas Ros or Roos, 9th Baron Ros of Helmsley was a follower of the House of Lancaster during the Wars of the Roses.
Thomas de Ros, 9th Baron de Ros, English politician (born 1427)
Rogier van der Weyden, initially known as Roger de la Pasture, was an early Netherlandish painter whose surviving works consist mainly of religious triptychs, altarpieces, and comm…
Rogier van der Weyden, Flemish painter (born 1400)
Cosimo di Giovanni de' Medici was an Italian banker and politician who became the de facto ruler of Florence during the Italian Renaissance, and was the first to establish the Medi…
Cosimo de' Medici, Italian ruler (born 1386)
Nicholas of Cusa, also referred to as Nicholas of Kues and Nicolaus Cusanus, was a German Catholic bishop and polymath active as a philosopher, theologian, jurist, mathematician, a…
Nicholas of Cusa, German cardinal and mystic (born 1401)