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1469

1469 - Events

• July 26 - Battle of Edgecote Moor
• October 17 - Prince Ferdinand of Aragon wed princess Isabella of Castile. This event would lead to a unified Spain in 1516.
• Sigismund of Austria sells upper-Elsass (Alsace) to the Charles the Bold in exchange of aid in a war against the Swiss
• Uzun Hassan wins in Persia and defeats Abu Said
• Lorenzo de' Medici takes power in Florence
• Moctezuma I, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan dies and is succeeded by Axayacatl.
• James III of Scotland acquires Orkney and Shetland Islands from Denmark

1469 - Births

• May 3 - Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian historian and political author (died 1527)
• May 31 - King Manuel I of Portugal (died 1521)
• August 26 - King Ferdinand II of Naples (died 1496)
• October 20 - Guru Nanak Dev, founder of Sikhism
• John III of Navarre (died 1516)
• Matthäus Lang von Wellenburg, German statesman and archbishop of Salzburg (died 1540)
• Elia Levita, Yiddish writer (died 1549)
• Silvio Passerini, Italian politician (died 1529)
• Vasco da Gama,Explorer (died 1524)

1469 - Deaths

• December 2 - Piero di Cosimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (born 1416)
• Niccolò Da Conti, Italian merchant and explorer (born 1395)
• Andrew Gray, 1st Lord Gray
• Moctezuma I, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan
• Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers
• Abu Sa'id, ruler of Persia and Afghanistan (born 1424)

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