1465

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Year 1465 (MCDLXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

• January 29 – Amadeus IX becomes Duke of Savoy.
• January 30 – Charles VIII of Sweden is deposed. Clergyman Kettil Karlsson Vasa becomes Regent of Sweden.
• July 13 – Battle of Montlhéry: Troops of King Louis XI of France fight inconclusively against an army of the great nobles organized as the League of the Public Weal.
• July 24 – Former King Henry VI of England is captured by Yorkist forces and imprisoned in the Tower of London. His queen consort Margaret of Anjou and Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales, have fled to France.
• August 11 – In Sweden, Regent Kettil Karlsson Vasa dies and is succeeded by Jöns Bengtsson Oxenstierna.
• October 14 – Wallachian voivode Radu cel Frumos, younger brother of Vlad Ţepeş, issues a writ from his residence in Bucharest, the earliest known document to mention the city by name.

Writ issued on 14 October 1465 by the Wallachian voivode Radu cel Frumos, from his residence in Bucharest. It is the oldest known document that mentions Bucharest by name.

Date unknown

• Moroccan Revolt in Fez, ousting the Maranid rulers and killing Jews.
• Massive flooding in central and southern China motivates the initial construction of hundreds of new bridges under the Ming dynasty.

Births

• June 10 – Mercurino Gattinara, Italian statesman and jurist (d. 1530)
• August 17 – Philibert I, Duke of Savoy (d. 1482)
• September 11 – Bernardo Accolti, Italian poet (d. 1536)
• October 10 – Selim I, sultan of the Ottoman Empire (d. 1520)
• October 14 – Konrad Peutinger, German humanist and antiquarian (d. 1547)
• December 11 – Ashikaga Yoshihisa, Japanese shogun (d. 1489)
• date unknown
  • Hector Boece, Scottish historian (d. 1536)
  • William Cornysh, English composer (d. 1523)
  • Johann Tetzel, German Dominican priest (d. 1519)
  • Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar, Spanish conquistador (d. 1524)
• probable
  • Gil Vicente, Portuguese poet and playwright
  • Francisco Álvares, Portuguese missionary and explorer (d. 1541)
  • Mette Dyre

Deaths

• January 5 – Charles, Duke of Orléans, French poet (b. 1394)
• January 14 – Thomas Beckington, English statesman and prelate
• January 29 – Louis, Duke of Savoy (b. 1413)
• March 30 – Isabella of Clermont, queen consort of Naples (b. c. 1424)
• April 30 – Jacob of Juterbogk, theologian (b. c. 1381)
• May 12 – Thomas Palaiologos, claimant to Byzantine throne (b. 1409)
• August 11 – Kettil Karlsson, regent of Sweden and Bishop of Linköping (plague; b. 1433)
• September 25 – Isabella of Bourbon, wife of Charles the Bold (b. 1436)
• date unknown – John Hardyng, English chronicler (b. 1378)

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