1468
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This article is about the year 1468.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 14th century – 15th century – 16th century |
| Decades: | 1430s 1440s 1450s – 1460s – 1470s 1480s 1490s |
| Years: | 1465 1466 1467 – 1468 – 1469 1470 1471 |
| 1468 by topic |
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| Architecture - Art |
| Politics |
| State leaders - Sovereign states |
| Birth and death categories |
| Births - Deaths |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories |
| Establishments - Disestablishments |
| Art and literature |
| 1468 in poetry |
| Gregorian calendar | 1468 MCDLXVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2221 |
| Armenian calendar | 917 ԹՎ ՋԺԷ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6218 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -376–-375 |
| Bengali calendar | 875 |
| Berber calendar | 2418 |
| English Regnal year | 7 Edw. 4 – 8 Edw. 4 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2012 |
| Burmese calendar | 830 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6976–6977 |
| Chinese calendar | 丁亥年十二月初六日 (4104/4164-12-6) — to —
戊子年十二月十七日(4105/4165-12-17) |
| Coptic calendar | 1184–1185 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1460–1461 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5228–5229 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1524–1525 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1390–1391 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4569–4570 |
| Holocene calendar | 11468 |
| Iranian calendar | 846–847 |
| Islamic calendar | 872–873 |
| Japanese calendar | Ōnin 2 (応仁2年) |
| Korean calendar | 3801 |
| Minguo calendar | 444 before ROC 民前444年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2011 |
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Year 1468 (MCDLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
[edit] Events
[edit] January–December
- August 26 – Baeda Maryam succeeds his father Zara Yaqob as Emperor of Ethiopia.
- October 14 – The Treaty of Péronne is signed by Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, and Louis XI of France.
- December 3 - Lorenzo de' Medici and his brother Giuliano de' Medici succeed their father, Piero di Cosimo de' Medici
[edit] Date unknown
- The Lancastrians surrender Harlech Castle to King Edward IV of England after a seven-year siege.
- The Great Council of the Republic of Venice attempts to curb the power of the Council of Ten through legislation restricting them to acting on emergency matters.
- Metz Cathedral is completed.
[edit] Births
- February 29 – Pope Paul III (d. 1549)
- March 29 – Charles I of Savoy (d. 1490)
- June 30 – John, Elector of Saxony (d. 1532)
- date unknown
- Juan de Zumárraga, Spanish Franciscan prelate and first bishop of Mexico (d. 1548)
- Marino Ascanio Caracciolo, Italian cardinal (d. 1538)
[edit] Deaths
- January 17 – Skanderbeg, Albanian national hero (b. 1403)
- February 3 – Johannes Gutenberg, inventor of printing press with replaceable letters (b. 1398)
- September 26 – Juan de Torquemada, Spanish Catholic cardinal (b. 1388)
- October 7 – Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta, lord of Rimini (b. 1417)
- November 24 – Jean de Dunois, French soldier (b. 1402)
- date unknown
- Joanot Martorell, Spanish writer (b. 1419)
- Francesco Squarcione, Italian artist
- Lady Eleanor Talbot, English noblewoman
- Margaret Beauchamp, countess of Shrewsbury
- Zara Yaqob, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1399)
