Year 1470 (MCDLXX) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.
Events
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January–March
April–June
July–September
October–December
Date unknown
Births
- January 1 – Magnus I, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg, German noble (d. 1543)
- February 16 – Eric I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Prince of Calenberg (1491âÂÂ1540) (d. 1540)
- April 7 – Edward Stafford, 2nd Earl of Wiltshire (d. 1498)
- April 9 – Giovanni Angelo Testagrossa, Italian composer (d. 1530)
- May 20 – Pietro Bembo, Italian cardinal (d. 1547)
- June 30 – Charles VIII of France (d. 1498)
- July 13 – Francesco Armellini Pantalassi de' Medici, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1528)
- July 20 – John Bourchier, 1st Earl of Bath, English noble (d. 1539)
- July 30 – Hongzhi Emperor of China (d. 1505)
- August 4
- Bernardo Dovizi, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1520)
- Lucrezia de' Medici, Italian noblewoman (d. 1553)
- October 2
- George I of Münsterberg, Imperial Prince, Duke of Münsterberg and Oels, Graf von Glatz (d. 1502)
- Isabella of Aragon, Queen of Portugal, daughter of Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon (d. 1498)
- Isabella of Aragon, Duchess of Milan, daughter of Alfonso II of Naples (d. 1524)
- October 10 – Selim I, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (d. 1520)
- October 15 – Konrad Mutian, German humanist (d. 1526)
- November 2 – King Edward V of England, the elder of the "Princes in the Tower" (d. c. 1483)
- November 28 – Wen Zhengming, artist in Ming dynasty China (d. 1559)
- December 5 – Willibald Pirckheimer, German humanist (d. 1530)
- date unknown
- Juan DÃÂaz de SolÃÂs, Spanish navigator and explorer (d. 1516)
- Tang Yin, Chinese painter (d. 1524)
- Polydore Vergil, Urbinate/English historian (d. 1555)
- probable
- Matthias Grünewald, German painter (d. 1528)
- Hayuya, Taino chief (d. unknown)
- Hugh Latimer, Protestant martyr (d. 1555)
Deaths
- January 2 – Heinrich ReuÃÂ von Plauen, Grand Master of the Teutonic Order
- March 20 – Thomas Talbot, 2nd Viscount Lisle, English nobleman killed at the Battle of Nibley Green (b. c.1449)
- May 15 – Charles VIII of Sweden (b. 1409)
- August 31 – Frederick II, Count of Vaudémont (b. c.1428)
- October 18 – John Tiptoft, 1st Earl of Worcester, Lord High Treasurer (b. 1427)
- November 23 – Gaston, Prince of Viana (b. 1444)
- December 16 – John II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1425)
- date unknown
- Domenico da Piacenza, Italian dancing master (b. 1390)
- Pal Engjëlli, Albanian Catholic clergyman (b. 1416)
- probable – Jacopo Bellini, Italian painter (b. 1400)
References