1470 to 1474

1470

c - The Quechua-speaking Incas came to dominate what is now Bolivia.

c - The period of the second of four waves of rising prices over the last 800 yearsu.1650

x - Portuguese explorers discover Gold Coast of Africa

x - PORTUGAL Princess Juana popularized the farthingale, a wide-hipped skirt stiffened by whale bone.

x - The first book printed in France was an ornate ninth-century transcript produced for the grandson of Charlemagne. It is held by the Bibliotheque Nationale de France.

x - The earliest documented work bySandro Botticelli + b.1445 ,Florence -d.may 17 1510 was made. "Fortitude" was an allegory portraying a woman who embodies the virtue of inner strength.

mar 02 - England ?+ At Lose Coat Field, canon under Edward IV turned a group of Lincolnshire rebels into a panicked mob.

jun 30 - Charles VIII, King of Francer.1483-1498 was born. One of his feet had 6 toes which prompted his wearing broad, square tip shoes.

oct 09 - Henry VI of England was restored to the throne.

nov 01 - Edward V, King of England, was born.

1471

x - Sixtus IV + becomes Pope ?+ u.1484 re.List of Popes

x - Thomas á Kempis, author of The Imitation of Christ, dies

x - Ivan III + the Great obliges Novgorod to renounce the alliance to Lithuania and pay tribute toRussia ?+ .

x - A particular Spanish, copper-based coin called a blanca was issued. u.1474

x - In Pec, Kosovo, the Qarshise Mosque was built.It was destroyed by Serbs in1999.

mar - Edward IV returns to England.

apr 14 - On Easter Sunday Edward led an army of mercenaries and Yorkists at the Battle of Barnet and defeated the Lancastrians under the Earl of Warwick, who was killed in battle. Margaret of Anjou returned fromFrance ? . With her son, the Prince of Wales, she planned to join with Jasper Tudor, a Welsh ally, and attack Edward west of London.

may 04 - In the Battle of Tewkesbury between the English House of Lancaster and House of York the Yorkists defeated the Lancastrians. The Lancastrian forces were led by Edmund Beaufort, 4th Duke of Somerset. Edward, the 17-year-old prince of Wales, was killed at the battle of Tewkesbury.

may 06 - The 4th Duke of Somerset and other Lancastrian nobles were beheaded at the Tewkesbury marketplace after trial presided over by the Duke of Gloucester, Constable of England.

may 21 - King Henry VI was killed in the tower of London, and Edward IV took the throne.

1472

x - Russia ?+ Ivan III + the Great marries Sophiazoë; niece of the last Byzantine Emperor,Constantine XI + b.feb 09 1409-d.may 29 1453. Sophia introduces the customs of the Byzantine court, and the idea of Moscow as a ?third Rome,? Rome and the Byzantine Empire being the 1st and 2nd.

x - Copernicus born

x - Lucas Cranach the Elder, German painter and graphic artist. He painted "Cardinal Albrecht as St. Jerome." d.1553

x - The Orkney Islands were part of Norway until this year.

x - In Siena the Monte dei Paschi began taking deposits and making loans. By some accounts this was the oldest existing bank by 1999. In Siena the original capital came from taxes.

1473

x - The game of golf was played in Scotland at the Old course at St. Andrews.

x - Thomas a Kempis wrote his popular Imitation of Christ * . It went through 99 editions by the end of the century.

feb 19 - Poland The astronomer Copernicus d.1543 was born in Torun.He will promulgate the theory that the earth and the planets move around the sun.