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1469

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Year 1469 (MCDLXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Events

  • October 19 – Ferdinand II of Aragon marries Isabella I of Castile in Valladolid, bringing about a dynastic union of Spain.

    • Undated

  • Sigismund of Austria sells Upper-Elsass (Alsace) to Charles the Bold in exchange for aid in a war against the Swiss.
  • Moctezuma I, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan, dies and is succeeded by Axayacatl.
  • Marsilio Ficino completes his translation of the collected works of Plato, writes "Commentary on Plato's Symposium on Love" and starts to work on "Platonic Theology".

    • Births

  • February 13 – Elia Levita, Renaissance Hebrew grammarian (d. 1549)
  • February 20 – Thomas Cajetan, Italian philosopher (d. 1534)
  • March 20 – Cecily of York, English princess (d. 1507)
  • April 15 – Guru Nanak, Sikh guru (d. 1539)
  • April 29 – William II, Landgrave of Hesse (d. 1509)
  • May 3 – Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian historian and political author (d. 1527)
  • May 31 – King Manuel I of Portugal (d. 1521)
  • June 20 – Gian Galeazzo Sforza, Duke of Milan (d. 1494)
  • August 4 – Margaret of Saxony, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1528)
  • August 26 – King Ferdinand II of Naples (d. 1496)
  • date unknown
  • John III of Navarre (d. 1516)
  • Silvio Passerini, Italian politician (d. 1529)
  • Laura Cereta, Italian humanist and feminist (d. 1499)
  • probable – Vasco da Gama, explorer (d. 1524)

    • Deaths

  • May 30 – Lope de Barrientos, a powerful bishop in Castile (b. 1389)
  • August 12 – Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers (executed) (b. 1412)
  • October 8 – Filippo Lippi, artist (b. 1406)
  • December 2 – Piero di Cosimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (b. 1416)
  • date unknown
  • Abu Sa'id, ruler of Persia and Afghanistan (b. 1424)
  • Lope de Barrientos, powerful Castilian cleric (b. 1382)
  • Niccolò Da Conti, Italian merchant and explorer (b. 1395)
  • Andrew Gray, 1st Lord Gray (b. approx. 1390)
  • Moctezuma I, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan

    • References

    1469 Wikipedia
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