1470

1470 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1470 MCDLXX
Ab urbe condita	2223
Armenian calendar	919 ԹՎ ՋԺԹ
Assyrian calendar	6220
Balinese saka calendar	1391–1392
Bengali calendar	876–877
Berber calendar	2420
English Regnal year	9 Edw. 4 – 10 Edw. 4
Buddhist calendar	2014
Burmese calendar	832
Byzantine calendar	6978–6979
Chinese calendar	己丑年 (Earth Ox) 4167 or 3960 — to — 庚寅年 (Metal Tiger) 4168 or 3961
Coptic calendar	1186–1187
Discordian calendar	2636
Ethiopian calendar	1462–1463
Hebrew calendar	5230–5231
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1526–1527
- Shaka Samvat	1391–1392
- Kali Yuga	4570–4571
Holocene calendar	11470
Igbo calendar	470–471
Iranian calendar	848–849
Islamic calendar	874–875
Japanese calendar	Bunmei 2 (文明２年)
Javanese calendar	1386–1387
Julian calendar	1470 MCDLXX
Korean calendar	3803
Minguo calendar	442 before ROC 民前442年
Nanakshahi calendar	2
Thai solar calendar	2012–2013
Tibetan calendar	ས་མོ་གླང་ལོ་ (female Earth-Ox) 1596 or 1215 or 443 — to — ལྕགས་ཕོ་སྟག་ལོ་ (male Iron-Tiger) 1597 or 1216 or 444

Events

January 9 – Grand Prince Jalsan of Joseon becomes the new King of Korea upon the death of his uncle, King Yejong. Jalisan takes the regnal name of King Seongjong.^[1].^[2]
January 21 – Jacquetta of Luxembourg, mother of England's Queen Consort Elizabeth Woodville and mother-in-law of King Edward IV, is cleared of allegations of witchcraft that had been made against her in 1469 by a follower of the rebel Earl of Warwick.^[3]
March 12 – Wars of the Roses in England – At the Battle of Losecoat Field, the House of York (supporters of King Edward IV) defeats the House of Lancaster (supporters of the former King Henry VI, led by Sir Robert Welles).^[4] Welles is captured and confesses that he had been hired by the Earl of Warwick and by King Edward's brother, George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence to overthrow the King. Warwick and Clarence flee England and Welles is beheaded.^[5]
March 20 – The Battle of Nibley Green is the last fought between the private armies of feudal magnates in England.^[6]

April 5 – At Srinagar in the Kashmir Sultanate, the Sultan Zayn al-Abidin the Great dies after a reign of almost 52 years, and his succeeded by his son, Prince Haji Khan, who takes the name Haider Shah Miri on his proclamation as Sultan on May 12.^[7]
May 6 – Yun Chaun becomes the new Chief State Councillor (Yonguijong, equivalent to a prime minister as head of government) of Korea, when he is appointed by King Seongjong to replace Hong Yunsŏng.
May 15 – Charles VIII of Sweden, who has served three terms as King of Sweden, dies. Sten Sture the Elder proclaims himself Regent of Sweden the following day.^[8]
June 1 – Sten Sture is recognised as the new King of Sweden by the estates.^[9]

July 12 – During the Ottoman–Venetian War, the Ottomans capture the Greek island of Euboea, territory of the Republic of Venice, after a four week siege of the fortified city of Negroponte by the Sultan Mehmed II.^[10]
August 20 – Battle of Lipnic: Stephen the Great defeats the Volga Tatars of the Golden Horde, led by Ahmed Khan.
September 13 – A rebellion orchestrated by King Edward IV of England's former ally, Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, forces the King to flee England to seek support from his brother-in-law, Charles the Bold of Burgundy.^[11]

October 3 – The Earl of Warwick releases King Henry VI of England from imprisonment in the Tower of London, and restores him to the throne.^[12]
November 28 – Emperor Lê Thánh Tông of Đại Việt launches a naval expedition against Champa, beginning the Cham–Annamese War.^[13]
December 18 – Lê Thánh Tông leads the Đại Việt army into Champa, conquering the country in less than three months.^[13]

The Pahang Sultanate is established at Pahang Darul Makmur (in modern-day Malaysia).
The first contact occurs between Europeans and the Fante nation of the Gold Coast, when a party of Portuguese land and meet with the King of Elmina.
Johann Heynlin introduces the printing press into France and prints his first book this same year.
In Tonga, in or around 1470, the Tuʻi Tonga Dynasty cedes its temporal powers to the Tuʻi Haʻatakalaua Dynasty, which will remain prominent until about 1600.
Between this year and 1700, 8,888 witches are tried in the Swiss Confederation; 5,417 of them are executed.
Sir George Ripley dedicates his book, The Compound of Alchemy, to the King Edward IV of England.
The Chimor–Inca War ends with an Inca victory. The Chimor Empire is absorbed into the Inca Empire.

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