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Year 1463 (MCDLXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Contents

January–December

  • January 5 – French poet François Villon receives a reprieve from death by hanging, and banished from Paris; his further life is undocumented.
  • May – The Kingdom of Bosnia falls to the Ottoman Empire.
  • September 15 – Battle of Vistula Lagoon: The navy of the Prussian Confederation defeats that of the Teutonic Order.
  • October 8 – Truce of Hesdin ends French support for the House of Lancaster in England.

    • Date unknown

  • Muhammad Rumfa starts to rule in Kano.
  • Corpus Hermeticum is translated into Latin by Marsilio Ficino.

    • Births

  • January 17
  • Antoine Duprat, Catholic cardinal (d. 1535)
  • Frederick III, Elector of Saxony (d. 1525)
  • February 24 – Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Italian philosopher (poisoned 1494)
  • June 14 – Henry IV, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, German noble (d. 1514)
  • August 4 – Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici, Florentine patron of the arts (d. 1503)
  • September 29 – Louis I, Count of Löwenstein and founder of the House of Löwenstein-Wertheim (d. 1523)
  • October 20 – Alessandro Achillini, Bolognese philosopher (d. 1512)
  • November 29 – Andrea della Valle, Catholic cardinal (d. 1534)
  • December 25 – Johann of Schwarzenberg, German judge and poet (d. 1528)
  • date unknown – Caterina Sforza, countess and regent of Forli (d. 1509)

    • Deaths

  • May 25 – King Stephen Tomašević of Bosnia (beheaded)
  • June 4 – Flavio Biondo, Italian humanist (b. 1392)
  • June 17 – Infanta Catherine of Portugal, religious writer (b. 1436)
  • November 1 – Emperor David of Trebizond (b. c.1408)
  • November 15 – Giovanni Antonio Del Balzo Orsini, Prince of Taranto and Constable of Naples (b. 1393)
  • November 29 – Marie of Anjou, queen of France, spouse of Charles VII of France (b. 1404)
  • December 2 – Albert VI, Archduke of Austria (b. 1418)
  • Date unknown – Jacob Gaón, Jewish Basque tax collector (beheaded by the mob)

    • References

    1463 Wikipedia
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