1466

This article is about the year 1466.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1430s  1440s  1450s  – 1460s –  1470s  1480s  1490s
Years:	1463 1464 1465 – 1466 – 1467 1468 1469

1466 by topic
Arts and science
Architecture - Art
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Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments - Disestablishments
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1466 in poetry

1466 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1466 MCDLXVI
Ab urbe condita	2219
Armenian calendar	915 ԹՎ ՋԺԵ
Assyrian calendar	6216
Bahá'í calendar	-378–-377
Bengali calendar	873
Berber calendar	2416
English Regnal year	5 Edw. 4 – 6 Edw. 4
Buddhist calendar	2010
Burmese calendar	828
Byzantine calendar	6974–6975
Chinese calendar	乙酉年十二月十五日 (4102/4162-12-15) — to — 丙戌年十一月廿四日 (4103/4163-11-24)
Coptic calendar	1182–1183
Ethiopian calendar	1458–1459
Hebrew calendar	5226–5227
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1522–1523
- Shaka Samvat	1388–1389
- Kali Yuga	4567–4568
Holocene calendar	11466
Iranian calendar	844–845
Islamic calendar	870–871
Japanese calendar	Kanshō 7Bunshō 1 (文正元年)
Korean calendar	3799
Minguo calendar	446 before ROC 民前446年
Thai solar calendar	2009

Year 1466 (MCDLXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

• June – Second Siege of Krujë: Mehmed II leads an army of 150,000 in an attempt to quash the Albanian resistance by taking Krujë. The Albanians repulse him and the Ottoman army retreats from Albania.
• August 26 – A conspiracy against Piero di Cosimo de' Medici, led by Luca Pitti and Borso d'Este, is discovered and put down in Florence.
• October 19 – The Thirteen Years' War ends with the Second Peace of Thorn.

Date unknown

• The Chimú Empire is conquered by troops of the Inca.
• Erik Axelsson Tott replaces Jöns Bengtsson Oxenstierna as Regent of Sweden.
• The first printed German language Bible is produced.
• Louis XI of France introduces silk weaving to Lyon.

• Collapse of the Kingdom of Georgia into anarchy and it's subsequent fragmentation into rival states of Kartli, Kakheti, Imereti, Samtskhe-Saatabago and a number of principalities, which is finalised in 1490 when Constantine II of Georgia has to recognize his rival monarchies.

Births

• February 11 – Elizabeth of York, queen of Henry VII of England (d. 1503)
• June 18 – Ottaviano Petrucci, Italian music printer (d. 1539)
• August 10 – Francesco II Gonzaga, Marquess of Mantua (d. 1519)
• September 9 – Ashikaga Yoshitane, Japanese shogun (d. 1523)
• October 27 – Erasmus, Dutch philosopher (d. 1536)
• November 30 – Andrea Doria, Italian naval leader (d. 1560)
• probable
  • Moctezuma II, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlán (d. 1520)
  • Alonso de Ojeda, Spanish conquistador and explorer (d. 1515)

Deaths

• March 8 – Francesco I Sforza, Duke of Milan (b. 1401)
• October 30 – Johann Fust, German printer (b. c. 1400)
• December 13 – Donatello, Italian artist (b. 1386)
• date unknown
  • Benedetto Accolti, Italian jurist and historian (b. 1415)
  • Hacı I Giray, first ruler of the Crimean Khanate
  • Barbara Manfredi, Italian noblewoman
  • Nicolaus Zacharie, composer