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| Gregorian calendar | 1469 MCDLXIX |
| Ab urbe condita | 2222 |
| Armenian calendar | 918 ԹՎ ՋԺԸ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6219 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1390–1391 |
| Bengali calendar | 876 |
| Berber calendar | 2419 |
| English Regnal year | 8 Edw. 4 – 9 Edw. 4 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2013 |
| Burmese calendar | 831 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6977–6978 |
| Chinese calendar | 戊子年 (Earth Rat) 4166 or 3959 — to — 己丑年 (Earth Ox) 4167 or 3960 |
| Coptic calendar | 1185–1186 |
| Discordian calendar | 2635 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1461–1462 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5229–5230 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1525–1526 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1390–1391 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4569–4570 |
| Holocene calendar | 11469 |
| Igbo calendar | 469–470 |
| Iranian calendar | 847–848 |
| Islamic calendar | 873–874 |
| Japanese calendar | Ōnin 3 / Bunmei 1 (文明元年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1385–1386 |
| Julian calendar | 1469 MCDLXIX |
| Korean calendar | 3802 |
| Minguo calendar | 443 before ROC 民前443年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 1 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2011–2012 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阳土鼠年 (male Earth-Rat) 1595 or 1214 or 442 — to — 阴土牛年 (female Earth-Ox) 1596 or 1215 or 443 |
Year 1469 (MCDLXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
- February 4 – Battle of Qarabagh: Uzun Hasan decisively defeats the Timurids of Abu Sa'id Mirza.
- July 24 – Battle of Edgcote: Yorkists are defeated and, in the aftermath, King Edward IV of England is taken prisoner.[1]
- August–October – Caister Castle in England is besieged by John de Mowbray, 4th Duke of Norfolk.
- October 19 – Ferdinand II of Aragon marries Isabella I of Castile in Valladolid, bringing about a dynastic union.[2]
Date unknown
- Sigismund of Austria sells Upper-Elsass (Alsace) to Charles the Bold, in exchange for aid in a war against the 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.
Births
- February 13 – Elia Levita, Renaissance Hebrew grammarian (d. 1549)
- February 20 – Thomas Cajetan, Italian philosopher (d. 1534)
- March 20 – Cecily of York, English princess (d. 1507)
- November 29 – Guru Nanak, Sikh guru (d. 1539)[3]
- April 29 – William II, Landgrave of Hesse (d. 1509)
- May 3 – Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian historian and political author (d. 1527)[4]
- May 31 – King Manuel I of Portugal (d. 1521)
- June 20 – Gian Galeazzo Sforza, Duke of Milan (d. 1494)
- August 4 – Margaret of Saxony, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1528)
- August 26 – King Ferdinand II of Naples (d. 1496)
- date unknown
- John III of Navarre (d. 1516)
- Silvio Passerini, Italian politician (d. 1529)
- Laura Cereta, Italian humanist and feminist (d. 1499)
- probable – Vasco da Gama, Portuguese explorer (d. 1524)
Deaths
- May 30 – Lope de Barrientos, powerful Castilian bishop and statesman (b. 1382)
- August 12 – Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers (executed) (b. 1405)
- September 25 – Margaret of Brittany, Breton duchess consort (b. 1443)
- October 8/10 – Filippo Lippi, Italian artist (b. 1406)[5]
- December 2 – Piero di Cosimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (b. 1416)
- December 31 – King Yejong of Joseon (b. 1450)
- date unknown
- Abu Sa'id Mirza, ruler of Persia and Afghanistan (b. 1424)
- Niccolò Da Conti, Italian merchant and explorer (b. 1395)
- Andrew Gray, 1st Lord Gray (b. c. 1390)
- Moctezuma I, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan, son of Huitzilihuitl (b. 1390)[6]
References
- ^ Keith Dockray (1999). Edward IV: A Sourcebook. Sutton Pub. p. 65. ISBN 978-0-7509-1942-5.
- ^ Norman Davies (2011). Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe. Penguin Books. p. 2. ISBN 978-0-14-196048-7.
- ^ Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh (2004). Sikhism. Infobase Publishing. p. 20. ISBN 978-1-4381-1779-9.
- ^ Niccolò Machiavelli (1882). The historical, political, and diplomatic writings of Niccolo Machiavelli, tr. by C.E. Detmold. p. 16.
- ^ Kathleen Kuiper (2009). The 100 Most Influential Painters & Sculptors of the Renaissance. The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. p. 69. ISBN 978-1-61530-004-4.
- ^ "Moctezuma I el Grande" [Moctezuma I the Great] (in Spanish). Biografias y Vidas.com. Retrieved June 1, 2019.