# 1470

Year 1470 (MCDLXX) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.

## Events
### January–December

* March 12 – Wars of the Roses in England – Battle of Losecoat Field: The House of York defeats the House of Lancaster.
* March 20 – The Battle of Nibley Green is the last fought between the private armies of feudal magnates in England.
* Spring: Anglo-Hanseatic War: Hanseatic League privateers set sail.
* May 15 – Charles VIII of Sweden, who has served three terms as King of Sweden, dies. Sten Sture the Elder proclaims himself Regent of Sweden the following day.
* June 1 – Sten Sture is recognised as Swedish ruler by the estates.
* July 12 – The Ottomans capture Euboea.
* August 20 – Battle of Lipnic: Stephen the Great defeats the Volga Tatars of the Golden Horde, led by Ahmed Khan.
* September 13 – A rebellion orchestrated by King Edward IV of England's former ally, Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, forces the King to flee England to seek support from his brother-in-law, Charles the Bold of Burgundy.
* October 3 – Warwick releases Henry VI of England from the Tower of London, and restores him to the throne.
* November 28 – Emperor Lê Thánh Tông of Đại Việt launches a naval expedition against Champa, beginning the Cham–Annamese War.
* December 18 – Lê Thánh Tông leads the Đại Việt army into Champa, conquering the country in less than three months.

### Date unknown

* The Pahang Sultanate is established at Pahang Darul Makmur (in modern-day Malaysia).
* The first contact occurs between Europeans and the Fante nation of the Gold Coast, when a party of Portuguese land and meet with the King of Elmina.
* Johann Heynlin introduces the printing press into France and prints his first book this same year.
* In Tonga, in or around 1470, the Tuʻi Tonga Dynasty cedes its temporal powers to the Tuʻi Haʻatakalaua Dynasty, which will remain prominent until about 1600.
* Between this year and 1700, 8,888 witches are tried in the Swiss Confederation; 5,417 of them are executed.
* Sir George Ripley dedicates his book, The Compound of Alchemy, to the King Edward IV of England.
* The Chimor–Inca War ends with an Inca victory. The Chimor Empire is absorbed into the Inca Empire.

## Births

* January 1 – Magnus I, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg, German noble (d. 1543)
* February 16 – Eric I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Prince of Calenberg (1491–1540) (d. 1540)
* April 7 – Edward Stafford, 2nd Earl of Wiltshire (d. 1498)
* April 9 – Giovanni Angelo Testagrossa, Italian composer (d. 1530)
* May 20 – Pietro Bembo, Italian cardinal (d. 1547)
* June 30 – Charles VIII of France (d. 1498)
* July 13 – Francesco Armellini Pantalassi de' Medici, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1528)
* July 20 – John Bourchier, 1st Earl of Bath, English noble (d. 1539)
* July 30 – Hongzhi Emperor of China (d. 1505)
* August 4
** Bernardo Dovizi, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1520)
** Lucrezia de' Medici, Italian noblewoman (d. 1553)
* October 2
** George I of Münsterberg, Imperial Prince, Duke of Münsterberg and Oels, Graf von Glatz (d. 1502)
** Isabella of Aragon, Queen of Portugal, daughter of Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon (d. 1498)
** Isabella of Aragon, Duchess of Milan, daughter of Alfonso II of Naples (d. 1524)
* October 10 – Selim I, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (d. 1520)
* October 15 – Konrad Mutian, German humanist (d. 1526)
* November 2 – King Edward V of England, the elder of the "Princes in the Tower" (d. c. 1483)
* November 28 – Wen Zhengming, artist in Ming dynasty China (d. 1559)
* December 5 – Willibald Pirckheimer, German humanist (d. 1530)
* date unknown
** Juan Díaz de Solís, Spanish navigator and explorer (d. 1516)
** Tang Yin, Chinese painter (d. 1524)
** Polydore Vergil, Urbinate/English historian (d. 1555)
* probable
** Matthias Grünewald, German painter (d. 1528)
** Hayuya, Taino chief (d. unknown)
** Hugh Latimer, Protestant martyr (d. 1555)

## Deaths

* January 2 – Heinrich Reuß von Plauen, Grand Master of the Teutonic Order
* March 20 – Thomas Talbot, 2nd Viscount Lisle, English nobleman killed at the Battle of Nibley Green (b. c.1449)
* May 15 – Charles VIII of Sweden (b. 1409)
* August 31 – Frederick II, Count of Vaudémont (b. c.1428)
* October 18 – John Tiptoft, 1st Earl of Worcester, Lord High Treasurer (b. 1427)
* November 23 – Gaston, Prince of Viana (b. 1444)
* December 16 – John II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1425)
* date unknown
** Domenico da Piacenza, Italian dancing master (b. 1390)
** Pal Engjëlli, Albanian Catholic clergyman (b. 1416)
* probable – Jacopo Bellini, Italian painter (b. 1400)