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Events
- February 4 - In the Thirteen Years' War, the Secret Council of the Prussian Confederacy sends a formal act of disobedience to the Grand Master.
- March 6 - Casimir IV of Poland renounces allegiance to the Teutonic Knights
- March 27 - Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York becomes Protector for the insane King Henry VI of England
- April 18 Treaty of Lodi: Francesco Sforza forms a triple alliance between the duchy of Milan, republic of Florence and kingdom of Naples
- September 18 - In the battle of Chojnice, the Polish army is defeated by a smaller but more professional Teutonic army during Thirteen Years' War.
- December - King Henry having regained his sanity, the Duke of York is dismissed as Protector
- The press of Johannes Gutenberg (at Mainz on the Rhine) produces the first printed documents bearing a date
Births
- March 9 - Amerigo Vespucci, Italian explorer (died 1512)
- July 14 - Poliziano, Italian humanist (d. 1494)
- September 4 - Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English politician (died 1483)
- Catherine Cornaro, Queen of Cyprus (died 1510)
- Jeanne Hachette, French heroine
- Domenico Maria Novara da Ferrara, Italian astronomer (died 1504)
- Pinturicchio, Italian painter (died 1513)
Deaths
- July 20 - King John II of Castile (born 1405)
- John Kemp, Archbishop of Canterbury
- Robert Wingfield, English politician (born 1403)
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