1469

Events

January 1 - Pope Paul II issues a papal bull establishing the military order of the Order of [Saint George (House of Habsburg)|Knights of Saint George] at the request of Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor, and invests Johann Siebenhirter as the order's first Grand Master.
February 4 -
* At the Battle of Qarabagh, in what is now Azerbaijan, troops led by Uzun Hasan, ruler of Aq Qoyunlu, decisively defeat the Timurids of Samrkand, ruled by Abu Sa'id Mirza. Mirza is taken a prisoner of war and is executed four days later on February 8.
*Han Myŏnghoe is appointed by King Yejong of Korea as the new Chief State Councillor, replacing Pak Wŏnhyŏng.
March 24 - With Abu Sa'id Mirza having been killed at the battle of Qarabagh, the Timurid prince, Sultan Husayn Bayqara captures Herat, the capital of the Timurid Empire, and proclaims himself the Emperor.

April 23 - Cardinal Jean Balue, a close adviser of King Louis XI, is arrested for conspiring with Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, and is charged with treason. Since there is a dispute over whether a Roman Catholic cleric can be tried by the royal court rather than an eccleastical court, Balue is spared the death penalty but spends the next 11 years in prison.
May 3 - At Olomouc, Hungarian King Matyáš Korvín is elected by the Czech Catholic estates to be the King of Bohemia and his rule is accepted by the occupied regions of Moravia, Silesia and Lusatia, though the other Bohemian estates remain loyal to the Bohemian King Jiří z Poděbrad.
June 3 - King Henry IV of Castile makes a gift of Gibraltar to Enrique de Guzmán, 2nd Duke of Medina Sidonia, as a reward for Guzman's work in capturing Gibraltar from the Moors.

July 14 - The Holy Roman Emperor Frederick III issues a decree nullifying the 1466 Treaty of Soldin between Brandenburg and Pomerania.
July 24 - The royalist Yorkists are defeated by rebels at the Battle of Edgcote in Northamptonshire, and King Edward IV is taken prisoner. Rebel leader Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, temporarily holds power to rule England but in September, Edward IV is freed and returns to the throne.
August 1 - The Order of Saint Michael is founded by King Louis XI of France as a response to the 's Order of the Golden Fleece.
September 27 - Hong Yunsŏng becomes the new head of government of the Kingdom of Korea as the new Chief State Councillor for King Yejong, replacing Han Myŏnghoe.

October 13 - King Edward IV returns to London after having been imprisoned since July since being captured at the Battle of Edgcote.
October 19 - Ferdinand II of Aragon marries Isabella I of Castile in Valladolid, bringing about a dynastic union.
November 9 - King Louis XI, having taken back the Duchy of Normandy from the control of his inept younger brother, Charles of Valois, Duke of Berry, pledges at Rouen that the Duchy will never be ceded again. In a ceremony before the Exchequer of Normandy, the Duchy's administrative court, King Louis places the ducal ring upon an anvil and the ring is smashed.
November 27 - King James III gives royal assent to numerous List of acts of the [Parliament of Scotland from 1469|acts passed by the Parliament of Scotland].
December 9 - Lorenzo de' Medici becomes the Lord of Florence, the de facto executive of the Florentine Republic in Italy, upon the death of his father, Piero di Cosimo de' Medici.

Sigismund of Austria sells Upper Alsace to Charles the Bold, in exchange for aid in a war against the Swiss Confederacy|Swiss].
Moctezuma I, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan, dies and is succeeded by Axayacatl.
Anglo-Hanseatic War breaks out.
Marsilio Ficino completes his translation of the collected works of Plato, writes Commentary on Plato's Symposium on Love, and starts to work on Platonic Theology.