1467

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Map of Dacia from a 1467 book (currently at the National Library of Poland) made after Ptolemy's Geographia (c. AD 140).

Year 1467 (MCDLXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

• June 15 – Philip the Good is succeeded as Duke of Burgundy by Charles the Bold.
• October 29 – Battle of Brustem: Charles the Bold defeats the Prince-Bishopric of Liège.
• November 12 – Regent of Sweden Erik Axelsson Tott supports the re-election of deposed Charles VIII of Sweden to the throne.
• December 15 – Battle of Baia: Troops under Stephen III of Moldavia decisively defeat the forces of Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary, at Baia (present-day Romania). This is the last Hungarian attempt to subdue the Principality of Moldavia.

Date unknown

• Third Siege of Krujë: A few months after the failure of the second siege, Mehmed II leads another unsuccessful Ottoman invasion of Albania.
• The Ōnin War (1467–1477), which initiates the Sengoku period in Japan, begins.
• While Hassan III of the Maldives is on Hajj, Sayyidh Muhammad deposes his son, acting regent. On his return, Hassan regains the throne.
• Some Papal abbreviators are arrested and tortured on the orders of Pope Paul II, among them Filippo Buonaccorsi.
• King Matthias Corvinus founds the first university in Slovakia, the Universitas Istropolitana in Bratislava.
• The polyalphabetic cipher is invented by Leon Battista Alberti (approximate date).
• Juan de Torquemada's book, Meditationes, seu Contemplationes devotissimae, is published.^[1]

Births

• January – John Colet, English churchman and educational pioneer (d. 1519)
• January 1
  • Philip of Cleves, Bishop of Nevers, Amiens, Autun (d. 1505)
  • Sigismund I the Old, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania (d. 1548)
• January 4
  • Henry the Younger of Stolberg, Stadtholder of Friesland (1506–1508) (d. 1508)
  • Bodo VIII, Count of Stolberg-Wernigerode (1511–1538) (d. 1538)
• January 26 – Guillaume Budé, French scholar (d. 1540)
• February 2 – Columba of Rieti, Italian Dominican tertiary Religious Sister (d. 1501)
• March 19 – Bartolomeo della Rocca, Italian scholar (d. 1504)
• March 21 – Caritas Pirckheimer, German nun (d. 1532)
• May 8 – Adalbert of Saxony, Administrator of Mainz (1482–1484) (d. 1484)
• May 31 – Sibylle of Brandenburg, Duchess of Jülich and Berg (d. 1524)
• August 11 – Mary of York, daughter of King Edward IV of England (d. 1482)
• August 25 – Francisco Fernández de la Cueva, 2nd Duke of Alburquerque, Spanish duke (d. 1526)
• October 21 – Giovanni il Popolano, Italian diplomat (d. 1498)
• November 9
  • Philippa of Guelders, twin sister of Charles, Duke of Guelders; Duchess consort of Lorraine (1485–1508) (d. 1547)
  • Charles II, Duke of Guelders and Count of Zutphen from 1492 until his death (d. 1538)
• November 25 – Thomas Dacre, 2nd Baron Dacre, Knight of Henry VIII of England (d. 1525)
• date unknown
  • John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners, English translator (d. 1553)
  • Krzysztof Szydłowiecki, Polish nobleman (d. 1532)
  • John Yonge, English ecclesiastic and diplomatist (d. 1516)
• probable – William Latimer, English churchman and scholar (d. 1545)

Deaths

• March 29 – Matthew Palaiologos Asen
• June 15 – Philip III, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1396)
• September 3 – Eleanor of Portugal, Holy Roman Empress (b. 1434)
• December 15 – Jöns Bengtsson Oxenstierna, archbishop and Regent of Sweden (b. 1417)
• date unknown
  • Maria of Tver, wife of Ivan III of Russia
  • Peter III Aaron, prince of Moldavia
  • Jahan Shah, leader of Turkmen
  • Khan Xälil of Kazan

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