Explore 78 historical events from 1470–1479.
The Pazzi conspiracy was a failed plot by members of the Pazzi family and others to displace the Medici family as rulers of Renaissance Florence.
In a conspiracy to replace the Medici family as rulers of the Republic of Florence, the Pazzi family attacked Lorenzo de
Thomas Grey, 2nd Marquess of Dorset was an English peer, courtier, soldier and landowner of the House of Grey.
Thomas Grey, 2nd Marquess of Dorset, English nobleman (died 1530)
Johann Georg Turmair, known by the pen name Johannes Aventinus or Aventin, was a Bavarian Renaissance humanist historian and philologist. He authored the 1523 Annals of Bavaria, a …
Johannes Aventinus, Bavarian historian and philologist (died 1534)
Jacopo Sadoleto was an Italian Catholic cardinal and counterreformer noted for his correspondence with and opposition to John Calvin.
Jacopo Sadoleto, Italian cardinal (died 1547)
Bartolomeo Fanfulla was an Italian condottiero.
Bartolomeo Fanfulla, Italian mercenary (died 1525)
Ferrante d'Este was a Ferrarese nobleman and condottiero. He was the son of Ercole I d'Este and Eleonora d'Aragona - he was named after his mother's father Ferdinand I of Naples. H…
Ferrante d'Este, Ferrarese nobleman and condottiero (died 1540)
Pope Julius II was head of the Catholic Church and leader of the Papal States from 1503 to his death, in February 1513.
Giuliano della Rovere is appointed bishop of Coutances.
Charles I, Duke of Münsterberg-Oels was a member of the House of Poděbrady. He was Duke of Münsterberg and Duke of Oels as well as Count of Kladsko. From 1519 to 1523 he held the o…
Charles I, Duke of Münsterberg-Oels, Count of Kladsko, Governor of Bohemia and Silesia (died 1536)
Pope Paul IV, born Gian Pietro Carafa, was head of the Catholic Church and leader of the Papal States from 23 May 1555 to his death, in August 1559. While serving as papal nuncio i…
Pope Paul IV (died 1559)
Alfonso I d'Este was Duke of Ferrara, Modena, and Reggio from 1505 until his death in 1534. A prominent military leader during the Italian Wars, he served on various sides througho…
Alfonso I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara (died 1534)
Anna Maria Sforza was Hereditary Princess of Ferrara as the first wife of Alfonso I d'Este, future Duke of Ferrara. She was the second legitimate daughter of Galeazzo Maria Sforza,…
Anna Sforza, Italian noble (died 1497)
Zhu Youyuan was a prince of the Ming dynasty of China. He was the fourth son of the Chenghua Emperor and the father of the Jiajing Emperor.
Zhu Youyuan, Ming Dynasty politician (died 1519)
Kanō Motonobu was a Japanese painter and calligrapher. He was a member of the Kanō school of painting. Through his political connections, patronage, organization, and influence he…
Kanō Motonobu, Japanese painter (died 1559)
Louise of Savoy was a French noble and regent, Duchess suo jure of Auvergne and Bourbon, Duchess of Nemours and the mother of King Francis I and Marguerite of Navarre. She was poli…
Louise of Savoy, French regent (died 1531)
Isabel Ingoldisthorpe was an English noblewoman and heiress, who by her marriage to John Neville, 1st Marquess of Montagu was Countess of Northumberland and Marchioness of Montague…
Isabel Ingoldisthorpe, English noblewoman (born 1441)
George Neville was Archbishop of York from 1465 until 1476 and Chancellor of England from 1460 until 1467 and again from 1470 until 1471.
George Neville, English archbishop and academic (born 1432)
Johannes Müller von Königsberg, better known as Regiomontanus, was a mathematician, astrologer and astronomer of the German Renaissance, active in Vienna, Buda and Nuremberg. His c…
Regiomontanus, German mathematician and astrologer (born 1436)
The Hundred Years' War was a series of conflicts between the kingdoms of England and France and a civil war in France during the late Middle Ages. It emerged from feudal disputes o…
Hundred Years' War: The Treaty of Picquigny formally ends the war between the kingdoms of France and England.
Artus Gouffier de Boissy was a French nobleman and politician. He was baron of Roannez, count of Étampes, count of Caravaggio, baron of Passavant, of Maulévrier, of la Mothe-Saint-…
Artus Gouffier, Lord of Boissy, French nobleman and politician (died 1519)
Sebastiano Serlio was an Italian Mannerist architect, who was part of the Italian team building the Palace of Fontainebleau. Serlio helped canonize the classical orders of architec…
Sebastiano Serlio, Italian Mannerist architect (died 1554)
Cesare Borgia was an Italian cardinal deacon and later a condottiero, as well as a member of the Spanish House of Borgia. He was the illegitimate son of Pope Alexander VI and sibli…
Cesare Borgia, Italian cardinal (died 1507)
Dieric Bouts was an Early Netherlandish painter. Bouts may have studied under Rogier van der Weyden, and his work was influenced by van der Weyden and Jan van Eyck. He worked in Le…
Dieric Bouts, Flemish painter (born 1415)
The Treaty of Picquigny was a peace treaty negotiated on 29 August 1475 between the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of France. It followed from an invasion of France by Edward I…
France signed the Treaty of Picquigny with England, freeing Louis XI to deal with the threat posed by Charles the…
Ludovico Ariosto was an Italian poet. He is best known as the author of the romance epic Orlando Furioso (1516-1532). The poem, a continuation of Matteo Maria Boiardo's Orlando Inn…
Ludovico Ariosto, Italian playwright and poet (died 1533)