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Everything about 1464 totally explainedYear 1464 was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events of 1464
- February - Christian I of Denmark and Norway, who was also serving as King of Sweden, is declared deposed from the later throne. His deposed predecessor Charles VIII of Sweden is re-elected to the throne.
- April 25 - Battle of Hedgeley Moor: Yorkist forces under Lord Montague defeat Lancastrians under Sir Ralph Percy, who is killed.
- May 1 - Edward IV of England secretly marries Elizabeth Woodville, and keeps the marriage a secret for 5 months afterwards.
- May 15 - Battle of Hexham: Montague defeats another Lancastrian army, this one led by King Henry and Queen Margaret themselves. This marks the end of organized Lancastrian existence for several years.
- August 21 - Emperor Go-Hanazono of Japan abdicates, and is succeeded by his son, Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado.
- August 30 - Pope Paul II succeeds Pope Pius II as the 211th pope.
- date unknown
Jehan Lagadeuc writes a Breton-French-Latin dictionary called the Catholicon. It's the first French dictionary as well as the first Breton dictionary of world history, and it'll be published in 1499.
- In China, a small rebellion occurs in the interior province of Huguang, during the Ming Dynasty; a subsequent rebellion springs up in Guangxi, where a rebellion of the Miao people and Yao people forces the Ming throne to respond by sending 30,000 troops (including 1,000 Mongol cavalry) to aid the 160,000 local troops stationed in the region to crush the rebellion that will end in 1466.
- Pope Pius II himself shoulders the cross of the Crusader.
Births
April 23 - Joan of France, Duchess of Berry (d. 1505)
November 19 - Emperor Go-Kashiwabara of Japan (d. 1526)
date unknown
Deaths
January - Desiderio da Settignano, Italian sculptor
February 23 - Zhengtong Emperor of China (b. 1427)
May 15 - Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke of Somerset (executed) (b. 1436)
May 17 - Thomas de Ros, 10th Baron de Ros, English politician (executed) (b. 1427)
May 25 - Charles I, Count of Nevers (b. 1414)
June 18 - Roger van der Weyden, Flemish painter
August 1 - Cosimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (b. 1389)
August 11 - Nicholas of Cusa, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1401)
August 14 - Pope Pius II (b. 1405)
November 23 - Blessed Margaret of Savoy (b. 1390)
date unknown
Tomaltach Oc O Gadra (killed in battle of Sliabh Lugha in Cluain Cárthaigh, now called Clooncara, Kilmovee)
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