1469

1469 (MCDLXIX) was a common year beginning on a Sunday of the Julian calendar.

Events

• 19 October Casamiento de Isabel I de Castilla y Fernando II de Aragón.

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• The Great Irmandiña War ended in Galicia
• Lorenzo the Magnificent, of the House of Medici, succeeds his father as the ruler of Florence.
• Axayácatl is named Emperor Aztec.
• In the course of the wars against Juan II, the Generality siege and destroys the castle of Eramprunyá de Gavá (Barcelona).

Births

• 13 February: Elias Levita, German Jewish poet, teacher and translator (f. 1549).
• 20 February: Thomas Cayetano, Italian philosopher and theologian, cardinal and general master of the Dominicans (f. 1534).
• April 18: Francis I of Foix, king of Navarre (f. 1483).
• May 3: Nicolás Maquiavelo, Italian philosopher (f. 1527).
• July 12: Juan del Enzina, Spanish composer (f. 1529).
• October 28: Erasmus of Rotterdam, a Dutch philosopher (f. 1536).

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• Vasco de Gama Explorer Portuguese.

Deaths

• May 30 - Lope de Barrientos, one of the most powerful clerics in the Crown of Castile.
• October 10 - Filippo Lippi, Italian painter.

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• Moctezuma Ilhuicamina, Mexica Emperor (n. 1398).