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Events
- September 23 - Battle of Blore Heath. Yorkists under the Earl of Salisbury defeat a Lancastrian force.
- October 12 - Due to the advance of a royal force on his fortress of Ludlow, The Duke of York flees to Ireland, while his ally Warwick goes to Calais.
- First mention of the Wallachian town of Bucharest.
- City of Jodhpur, in western India, founded by Rao Jodha of Marwar.
Births
- March 2 - Pope Adrian VI (died 1523)
- March 6 - Jacob Fugger, German banker (d. 1525)
- March 22 - Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1519)
- October 6 - Martin Behaim, German explorer and cartographer (died 1507)
- Cem, pretender to the Ottoman throne (died 1495)
- Lorenzo di Credi, Florentine painter and sculptor (died 1537)
- Edward Poyning, Lord Deputy to King Henry VII of England (died 1521)
Deaths
- March 3 - Ausiàs March, Catalan poet (b. 1397)
- October 30 - Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini, Italian humanist (born 1380)
- December 4 - Adolf VIII, Duke of Southern Jutland (b. 1401)
- James Tuchet, 5th Baron Audley (born 1400)
- Eric of Pomerania, King of Norway, Denmark and Sweden (born 1382)
- John Fastolf, English soldier
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