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

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 nad 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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