Explore 94 historical events from 1470–1479.
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)
Giovanni Rucellai, known as Giovanni di Bernardo Rucellai, was an Italian humanist, poet, dramatist and man of letters in Renaissance Florence, in Tuscany, Italy. A member of a wea…
Giovanni di Bernardo Rucellai, Italian poet and playwright (died 1525)
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)
Bernhard III, Margrave of Baden-Baden inherited in 1515 part of his father's margraviate of Baden. He ruled his part from 1515 until 1536.
Bernhard III, Margrave of Baden-Baden (died 1536)
Mariotto di Bindo di Biagio Albertinelli was an Italian Renaissance painter active in Florence. He was a close friend and collaborator of Fra Bartolomeo.
Mariotto Albertinelli, Italian painter and educator (died 1515)
The Battle of Otlukbeli was fought between the Aq Qoyunlu and the Ottoman Empire on 11 August 1473.
The Battle of Otlukbeli: Mehmed the Conqueror of the Ottoman Empire decisively defeats Uzun Hassan of Aq Qoyunlu.
Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York was the second son of King Edward IV of England and Elizabeth Woodville. Richard and his older brother, King Edward V, mysteriously disappeared …
Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York (died 1483)
Duke Frederick of Saxony, also known as Friedrich von Sachsen or Friedrich von Wettin, was the 36th Grand Master of the Teutonic Order, serving from 1498–1510. He was the third son…
Friedrich of Saxony, Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights (died 1510)
Georg von Frundsberg was a German Knight, military, and Landsknecht leader in the service of the Holy Roman Empire and Imperial House of Habsburg. An early modern proponent of infa…
Georg von Frundsberg, German Knight and landowner (died 1528)
John Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire KG, KB was an English nobleman, the youngest son of Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham. In 1461 he was appointed Knight of the Order of …
John Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, English politician (born 1420)
James II was the penultimate King of Cyprus (usurper), reigning from 1460/1464 until his death.
James II, king of Cyprus
Nikolaus von Schönberg was a German Catholic cardinal and Archbishop of Capua.
Nikolaus von Schönberg, Catholic cardinal (died 1537)
Leon Battista Alberti was an Italian Renaissance humanist author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher, and cryptographer; he epitomised the nature of those ident…
Leon Battista Alberti, Italian author, poet, and philosopher (born 1404)
Jacquetta of Luxembourg was a prominent figure in the Wars of the Roses. Through her short-lived first marriage to the Duke of Bedford, brother of King Henry V, she was firmly alli…
Jacquetta of Luxembourg, daughter of Pierre de Luxembourg (born 1416)
Nezahualcoyotl Acolmiztli, "Fasting Coyote" was tlatoani (king) of the Acolhua altepetl (city-state) of Texcoco from 1431 to his death in 1472, in pre-Columbian Mexico. He is noted…
Nezahualcoyotl, Aztec poet (born 1402)
Charles of Artois, was Count of Eu from 23 December 1397 until his death 75 years later. He was son of Philip of Artois, Count of Eu, and Marie of Berry. Charles was taken prisoner…
Charles of Artois, French nobleman (born 1394)
Albrecht Dürer, sometimes spelled in English as Durer or Duerer, was a German painter, printmaker, and theorist of the German Renaissance. Born in Nuremberg, Dürer established his …
Albrecht Dürer, German painter, engraver, and mathematician (died 1528)
The Wars of the Roses, known at the time and in following centuries as the Civil Wars, and also the Cousins' War, were a series of armed confrontations, machinations, battles and c…
Wars of the Roses: The Battle of Tewkesbury: Edward IV defeats a Lancastrian Army and kills Edward of Westminster, Princ
Sten Sture the Elder was a Swedish statesman and regent of Sweden from 1470 to 1497 and again from 1501 to 1503. As the leader of the victorious Swedish separatist forces against t…
Sten Sture the Elder, the Regent of Sweden, with the help of farmers and miners, repels an attack by King Christian I…
Eskender was Emperor of Ethiopia and a member of the Solomonic dynasty. His throne name was Constantine II. The son of Emperor Baeda Maryam I by his wife Queen Romna, his early yea…
Eskender, Ethiopian emperor (died 1494)
George the Bearded was Duke of Saxony from 1500 to 1539 and was known for his strong opposition to the Reformation. While the Ernestine line accepted Lutheranism, the Albertines, l…
George, Duke of Saxony (died 1539)