January–March •
January 24 –
Matthias Corvinus becomes king of
Hungary, at age 14. •
February 20 –
Stefan Branković, blind since 1441, becomes the Despot of Serbia upon the death of his brother,
Lazar Branković. •
February 27 –
George of Poděbrady is elected king of
Bohemia. •
March 25 – The
Loveday is staged in
London, by which
Henry VI of England attempts to unite the warring factions who have triggered the
Wars of the Roses.
April–June •
April 2 –
George of Poděbrady (King Jiří z Poděbrad) receives the
Crown of Saint Wenceslas at his coronation at the
St. Vitus Cathedral in
Prague as
King of Bohemia. •
April 19 – In Bohemia, a group of Silesian princes and city rulers form an alliance against the new King, George of Podebrady. Within a year, the resistance is dropped and the Silesian princes pay homage to King George. •
April 20 –
Isidore of Kiev is installed as the
Latin Patriarchate of Constantinople, leader of Eastern Orthodox Christians in the
Ottoman Empire, with the approval of the Muslim Ottoman Sultan,
Mehmed II. •
May 6 – At
Bidar in India, the
Sultan of Bahmani, dies after a reign of 22 years and is succeeded by his son,
Humayun Shah Zalim Bahmani. •
June 27 –
Alfonso V of Aragon, King of Aragon in Spain since 1416 and King of Naples in Italy since 1442, dies at his home at the
Castel dell'Ovo in Naples. By prior arrangement with his family, Alfonso is succeeded as King of Naples by his son,
Fernando, popularly known in Naples as "Ferrante". At the same time, Alfonso's brother
Juan, King of Navarre and King of Sicily, becomes the new King of Aragon. •
June –
Francesco II Acciaioli, last Duke of
Athens, surrenders the city to the
Ottoman Empire and Sultan
Mehmed II enters peacefully in August. Ottoman authorities issue a decree to protect the
Acropolis.
July–September •
July 15 –
Magdalen College, Oxford, is founded. •
August 6 – Pope Callixtus III dies after a reign of slightly more than three years. •
August 19 – The
conclave to elect a new Pope concludes at the
Apostolic Palace, with only 19 of the 27 members of the College of Cardinals participating. One of the electors, Cardinal
Domenico Capranica appeared to be the most likely choice for Pope, but had died suddenly on August 14, two days before the conclave opened. On the first ballot on August 18, no candidate had more than five votes, but by the next day, Cardinal
Enea Piccolomini, Archbishop of Siena, receives unanimous support after initially competing against
Guillaume d'Estouteville and
Filippo Calandrini. Piccoloni takes the name
Pope Pius II as the 210th pope. •
September 3 – The coronation of
Pope Pius II by
Cardinal Prospero Colonna takes place on the front steps of
St. Peter's Basilica in
Rome.
October–December •
October 24 – King
Afonso V of Portugal conquers the area around
Ksar es-Seghir in the
Sultanate of Morocco, led by Sultan
Abd al-Haqq II. •
November 12 – (6th waxing of
Nadaw 820 ME)
Min Khayi, ruler of the Burmese
Kingdom of Arakan leads a successful defense of an invasion from the
Shan State by his son, Prince Min Swe. •
November 13 – Sultan Abd al-Haqq II of Morocco begins a 7-week siege of the Portuguese settlement of Alcácer-Ceguer, but is ultimately unsuccessful in recovering the captured territory. •
December 26 –
François II becomes the new
Duke of Brittany upon the death of his uncle
Arthur de Richemont.
Date unknown • The Jewish community is expelled from
Erfurt (Germany); their houses are sold, and the synagogue turned into an arsenal. •
Moctezuma I,
Tlatoani of Tenochtitlán, leads an expedition to the city-state Coixtlahuaca in
Mixtec territory, but is defeated. •
A major volcano erupts. == Births ==