1469

Year 1469 (MCDLXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

January–December

 * February 4 – Battle of Qarabagh: Uzun Hasan decisively defeats the Timurids of Abu Sa'id Mirza.
 * July 24 – Battle of Edgcote: Yorkists are defeated and, in the aftermath, King Edward IV of England is taken prisoner.
 * August–October – Caister Castle in England is besieged by John de Mowbray, 4th Duke of Norfolk.
 * October 19 – Ferdinand II of Aragon marries Isabella I of Castile in Valladolid, bringing about a dynastic union.

Date unknown

 * Sigismund of Austria sells Upper-Elsass (Alsace) to Charles the Bold, in exchange for aid in a war against the Swiss.
 * Moctezuma I, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan, dies and is succeeded by Axayacatl.
 * Anglo-Hanseatic War breaks out.
 * Marsilio Ficino completes his translation of the collected works of Plato, writes Commentary on Plato's Symposium on Love, and starts to work on Platonic Theology.

Births

 * February 13 – Elia Levita, Renaissance Hebrew grammarian (d. 1549)
 * February 20 – Thomas Cajetan, Italian philosopher (d. 1534)
 * March 20 – Cecily of York, English princess (d. 1507)
 * November 29 – Guru Nanak, Sikh guru (d. 1539)
 * April 29 – William II, Landgrave of Hesse (d. 1509)
 * May 3 – Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian historian and political author (d. 1527)
 * May 31 – King Manuel I of Portugal (d. 1521)
 * June 20 – Gian Galeazzo Sforza, Duke of Milan (d. 1494)
 * August 4 – Margaret of Saxony, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1528)
 * August 26 – King Ferdinand II of Naples (d. 1496)
 * date unknown
 * John III of Navarre (d. 1516)
 * Silvio Passerini, Italian politician (d. 1529)
 * Laura Cereta, Italian humanist and feminist (d. 1499)
 * probable – Vasco da Gama, Portuguese explorer (d. 1524)

Deaths

 * May 30 – Lope de Barrientos, powerful Castilian bishop and statesman (b. 1382)
 * August 12 – Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers (executed) (b. 1405)
 * September 25 – Margaret of Brittany, Breton duchess consort (b. 1443)
 * October 8/10 – Filippo Lippi, Italian artist (b. 1406)
 * December 2 – Piero di Cosimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (b. 1416)
 * December 31 – King Yejong of Joseon (b. 1450)
 * date unknown
 * Abu Sa'id Mirza, ruler of Persia and Afghanistan (b. 1424)
 * Niccolò Da Conti, Italian merchant and explorer (b. 1395)
 * Andrew Gray, 1st Lord Gray (b. c. 1390)
 * Moctezuma I, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan, son of Huitzilihuitl (b. 1390)