1469

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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	875–876
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	ས་ཕོ་བྱི་བ་ལོ་ (male Earth-Rat) 1595 or 1214 or 442 — to — ས་མོ་གླང་ལོ་ (female Earth-Ox) 1596 or 1215 or 443

January 1 – Pope Paul II issues a papal bull establishing the military order of the Knights of Saint George at the request of Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor, and invests Johann Siebenhirter as the order's first Grand Master.^[1]
February 4 –
- (22 Rajab 873 AH) At the Battle of Qarabagh, in what is now Azerbaijan, troops led by Uzun Hasan, ruler of Aq Qoyunlu, decisively defeat the Timurids of Samrkand, ruled by Abu Sa'id Mirza.^[2] Mirza is taken a prisoner of war and is executed four days later on February 8.^[3]
- Han Myŏnghoe is appointed by King Yejong of Korea as the new Chief State Councillor, replacing Pak Wŏnhyŏng.
March 24 – With Abu Sa'id Mirza having been killed at the battle of Qarabagh, the Timurid prince, Sultan Husayn Bayqara captures Herat (now in Afghanistan), the capital of the Timurid Empire, and proclaims himself the Emperor.

April 23 – Cardinal Jean Balue, a close adviser of King Louis XI of France, is arrested for conspiring with Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, and is charged with treason. Since there is a dispute over whether a Roman Catholic cleric can be tried by the royal court rather than an eccleastical court, Balue is spared the death penalty but spends the next 11 years in prison.^[4]
May 3 – At Olomouc, Hungarian King Matyáš Korvín is elected by the Czech Catholic estates to be the King of Bohemia and his rule is accepted by the occupied regions of Moravia, Silesia and Lusatia, though the other Bohemian estates remain loyal to the Bohemian King Jiří z Poděbrad.^[5]
June 3 – King Henry IV of Castile makes a gift of Gibraltar to Enrique de Guzmán, 2nd Duke of Medina Sidonia, as a reward for Guzman's work in capturing Gibraltar from the Moors.^[6]

July 14 – The Holy Roman Emperor Frederick III issues a decree nullifying the 1466 Treaty of Soldin between Brandenburg and Pomerania.^[7]
July 24 – The royalist Yorkists are defeated by rebels at the Battle of Edgcote in Northamptonshire, and King Edward IV of England is taken prisoner. Rebel leader Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, temporarily holds power to rule England but in September, Edward IV is freed and returns to the throne.^[8]
August 1 – The Order of Saint Michael ( Ordre de Saint-Michel) is founded by King Louis XI of France as a response to the ^[9]'s Order of the Golden Fleece.^[10]
September 27 – Hong Yunsŏng becomes the new head of government of the Kingdom of Korea as the new Chief State Councillor for King Yejong, replacing Han Myŏnghoe.^[11]

October 13 – King Edward IV of England returns to London after having been imprisoned since July since being captured at the Battle of Edgcote.^[12]
October 19 – Ferdinand II of Aragon marries Isabella I of Castile in Valladolid, bringing about a dynastic union.^[13]
November 9 – King Louis XI of France, having taken back the Duchy of Normandy from the control of his inept younger brother, Charles of Valois, Duke of Berry, pledges at Rouen that the Duchy will never be ceded again. In a ceremony before the Exchequer of Normandy, the Duchy's administrative court, King Louis places the ducal ring (symbolic of the office as a ring worn by the Duke) upon an anvil and the ring is smashed.^[14]
November 27 – King James III gives royal assent to numerous acts passed by the Parliament of Scotland.
December 9 – Lorenzo de' Medici becomes the Lord of Florence, the de facto executive of the Florentine Republic in Italy, upon the death of his father, Piero di Cosimo de' Medici.^[15]

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.

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