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 succeded as Duke of Burgundy by Charles the Bold.
• July 25 – Battle of Molinella: Troops led by Bartolomeo Colleoni fighting for the Republic of Venice clash with those in the service of the Republic of Florence at Molinella with extensive use of firearms. The result is inconclusive but Colleoni abandons his plans to conquer the Duchy of Milan.
• 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.
• 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 Leone Battista Alberti (approximate date).

Births

• January – John Colet, English churchman and educational pioneer (d. 1519)
• January 1 – Sigismund I the Old, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania (d. 1548)
• January 26 – Guillaume Budé, French scholar (d. 1540)
• August 11 – Mary of York, daughter of King Edward IV of England (d. 1482)
• November 9 – Charles, Duke of Guelders (d. 1538)
• 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

• June 15 – Philip III, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1396)
• September 3 – Eleanor of Portugal, 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
  • Petru Aron, prince of Moldavia
  • Jahan Shah, leader of Turkmen
  • Khan Xalil of Kazan
  • Montezuma I

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