1470

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Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1440s 1450s 1460s – 1470s – 1480s 1490s 1500s
Years:	1467 1468 1469 – 1470 – 1471 1472 1473

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Europe in 1470

Year 1470 (MCDLXX) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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March 12 – Wars of the Roses – Battle of Lose-coat Field: The House of York defeats the House of Lancaster.
May 15 – Charles VIII of Sweden, who had served three terms as King of Sweden, dies. Sten Sture the Elder becomes Regent of Sweden.
October – A rebellion orchestrated by King Edward's former ally, the Earl of Warwick, forces the King to flee England to seek support from his brother-in-law Charles the Bold of Burgundy.
October 30 – Warwick releases Henry VI of England from the Tower and restores him to the throne.

King Afonso V of Portugal conquers the city of Arzila in North Africa.
The first contact occurs between Europeans and the Fante nation of the Gold Coast, when a party of Portuguese land and meet with the King of Elmina (see also History of Ghana).
Johann Heynlin introduces the printing press into France and prints his first book that same year.
In Tonga, in or around 1470, the Tu'i Tonga dynasty cedes its temporal powers to the Tu'i Ha'atakalaua dynasty, which will remain prominent until about 1600.
Between this year and 1700, 8,888 witches are tried in the Swiss Confederation; 5,417 of them are executed.
Sir George Ripley (alchemist) dedicates his book The Compound of Alchemy to the King Edward IV of England.

April 7 – Edward Stafford, 2nd Earl of Wiltshire (d. 1498)
May 20 – Pietro Bembo, Italian cardinal (d. 1547)
June 30 – Charles VIII of France (d. 1498)
July 30 – Hongzhi Emperor of China (d. 1505)
October 2 – Isabella, Princess of Asturias, Daughter of Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon (d. 1498)
November 4 – King Edward V of England, one of the princes in the Tower (d. c. 1483)
date unknown
- Thomas Cajetan, Italian theologian and cardinal (d. 1534)
- Juan Díaz de Solís, Spanish navigator and explorer (d. 1516)
- Wen Zhengming, Chinese painter (d. 1559)
- Tang Yin, Chinese painter (d. 1524)
probable
- Matthias Grünewald, German painter (d. 1528)
- Hayuya, Taino chief
- Hugh Latimer, Protestant martyr (d. 1555)