1469

Year 1469 (MCDLXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century 15th century 16th century
Decades:	1440s 1450s 1460s 1470s 1480s
Years:	1466 1467 1468 1469 1470 1471 1472

1469 in various calendars

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

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.
• 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.

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)
• April 29 – William II, Landgrave of Hesse (d. 1509)
• May 3 – Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian historian and political author (d. 1527)
• 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)
• 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)