1466

Events 
 January–December 
 June – Second Siege of Krujë:  Mehmed II leads an army of 150,000 to stop the Albanian resistance by taking Krujë. The Albanians stop him and the Ottoman army leaves from Albania.
 August 26 – A conspiracy against Piero di Cosimo de' Medici, led by Luca Pitti and Borso d'Este, is discovered and put down in Florence.
 October 19 – The Thirteen Years' War ends

 Date unknown 
 The Chimú Empire is conquered by troops of the Inca.
 Erik Axelsson Tott replaces Jöns Bengtsson Oxenstierna as Regent of Sweden.  
 The first printed German language Bible is made.
 Louis XI of France introduces silk weaving to Lyon.
 Kingdom of Georgia ends. Rival states of Kartli, Kakheti, Imereti, Samtskhe-Saatabago start.

 Births 
 February 11 – Elizabeth of York, queen of Henry VII of England (d. 1503)
 June 18 – Ottaviano Petrucci, Italian music printer (d. 1539)
 August 10 – Francesco II Gonzaga, Marquess of Mantua (d. 1519)
 September 9 – Ashikaga Yoshitane, Japanese shogun (d. 1523)
 October 27 – Erasmus, Dutch philosopher (d. 1536)
 November 30 – Andrea Doria, Italian naval leader (d. 1560)
 probable
 Moctezuma II, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlán (d. 1520)
 Alonso de Ojeda, Spanish conquistador and explorer (d. 1515)
 Laura Bowen, founder of the nursing profession.

 Deaths 
 March 8 – Francesco I Sforza, Duke of Milan (b. 1401)
 October 30 – Johann Fust, German printer (b. c. 1400)
 December 13 – Donatello, Italian artist (b. 1386)
 date unknown
 Benedetto Accolti, Italian jurist and historian (b. 1415)
 Hacı I Giray, first ruler of the Crimean Khanate
 Barbara Manfredi, Italian noblewoman
 Nicolaus Zacharie, composer

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