January–March •
January 24 –
Chilia is conquered by
Stephen the Great of Moldavia, following a second siege. •
January 29 –
Amadeus IX becomes
Duke of Savoy. •
January 30 –
Charles VIII of Sweden is deposed.
Clergyman Kettil Karlsson Vasa becomes
Regent of Sweden. •
February 28 – In the
Catalan Civil War, the
Battle of Calaf is fought and
Pedro V, the self-proclaimed King of Aragon, is defeated near
Barcelona by the legitimate King,
Juan II. •
March 25 –
Queens' College, Cambridge, dormant since 1447, is re-established on the campus of the
University of Cambridge by the queen consort of England,
Elizabeth Woodville, with the official name of "the College of St. Margaret and St. Bernard in the University of Cambridge." •
March 28 – King
Edward IV gives royal assent to acts passed by the
English Parliament, including the
Pattens Act 1464, regulating the manufacture of
pattens, shoes with wooden soles and heels, and leather covering, declaring that "Patten-makers may make pattens of such asp as is not fit for shafts." The law is among several given royal assent to regulate clothing, including the Cloths Act, the Exportation of Wool Act and Contracting for Wool Act and the Shoemakers Act. The parliament, in session since April 29, 1463, closes.
April–June •
April 27 – Nobility in the Castilian city of
Plasencia declare that they will consider King Enrique IV deposed, four months after the
Liga Nobiliaria had issued an ultimatum to the King. •
May 26 – Elizabeth Woodville, Queen consort of Edward IV of England, is crowned in a lavish ceremony at Westminster Abbey. •
June 5 – The
Farce of Ávila takes place in the
Kingdom of Castile in Spain as noblemen in
Ávila declare that
King Enrique IV is deposed and that they will only recognize his half-brother,
Alfonso, Prince of Asturias, as their monarch. King Enrique, who was the subject of a similar deposition in Plasencia on April 27, continues his reign of the rest of the kingdom from
Madrid.
July–September •
July 13 – Henry of Lancaster, the former King
Henry VI of England is captured at Waddington Hall in Lancashire, by Yorkist forces. Henry and his aide, Sir Richard Tunstall, had been staying as the guest of Sir
Richard Tempest when his brother. Richard's brother, John Tempest attempts to arrest Henry, but Tunstall and Henry flee to the
Clitheroe forest and are captured by the
River Ribble. •
July 16 – At the
Battle of Montlhéry, troops of King
Louis XI fight inconclusively against an army of great nobles, organized as the
League of the Public Weal. •
July 24 – Henry of Lancaster, the former King Henry VI of England, is imprisoned in the
Tower of London by order of King Edward IV. His
queen consort Margaret of Anjou and
Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales, have fled to France. •
August 11 – In Sweden,
Kettil Karlsson Vasa, Bishop of Linköping, is succeeded as Regent by Archbishop
Jöns Bengtsson Oxenstierna. •
September 7 – With the approval by the Holy Roman Emperor Friedrich III, the Bohemian captain Hinko Tannfeld to plunder the Hungarian town of
Sopron. •
September 23 –
Pope Matthew II of Alexandria, leader of the Coptic Christian Church, dies after a reign of 13 years. The Coptic papacy will remain vacant for five months until the election of Gabriel VI as the new Pope. •
September 29 –
King Ferrante of Naples creates the award
Order of the Ermine (
L’Ordre de l’Hermine) •
September 30 – In what is now the state of
Rajasthan in northwest
India, Prince
Rao Bika departs from
Jodhpur with 600 soldiers to conquer the territory of
Jangladesh.
October–December •
October 5 – The
Treaty of Conflans is signed between King Louis XI of France and the Count of Charolais. •
October 29 – The
treaty of Saint-Maur is signed between King Louis XI of France and the nobles of the League of the Public Weal (
Ligue du bien public), ending the
War of the Public Weal. •
November 13 – The Archbishop of Tours,
Jean Bernard, excommunicates Bishop Jean de Beauvau of Angers for insubordination. •
November 26 – In
Bohemia, Count
Jaroslav Lev of Rožmitál departs from
Prague along with 40 other Bohemian lords as part of King George's project of Establishment of Peace throughout Christendom. •
December 22 – The
Treaty of Saint-Trond is signed to end the war between the
Burgundian Netherlands (ruled by Philip the Good) and the
Prince-Bishopric of Liège, ending the
First Liège War, which had started four months earlier. Liège is allowed to keep its sovereignty at the cost of paying for the Burgundian war expenses and designating Charles the Bold, son of the Duke Philip, as heir to the rule of the area. •
December 23 – The Treaty of Caen is signed between King Louis XI of France and Francis II, Duke of Brittany.
Date unknown • Massive flooding in central and southern
China motivates the initial construction of hundreds of new bridges. • The main altar of
St Martin's Church, Colmar is finished by painter
Caspar Isenmann. • The
Kazakh Khanate is founded by
Kerei Khan and
Janibek Khan. == Births ==