1470

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

January–December

 * March 12 – Wars of the Roses in England – Battle of Losecoat Field: The House of York defeats the House of Lancaster.
 * March 20 – The Battle of Nibley Green is the last fought between the private armies of feudal magnates in England.
 * Spring: Anglo-Hanseatic War: Hanseatic League privateers set sail.
 * May 15 – Charles VIII of Sweden, who has served three terms as King of Sweden, dies. Sten Sture the Elder proclaims himself Regent of Sweden the following day.
 * June 1 – Sten Sture is recognised as Swedish ruler by the estates.
 * July 12 – The Ottomans capture Euboea.
 * August 20 – Battle of Lipnic: Stephen the Great defeats the Volga Tatars of the Golden Horde, led by Ahmed Khan.
 * September 13 – A rebellion orchestrated by King Edward IV of England's former ally, Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, forces the King to flee England to seek support from his brother-in-law, Charles the Bold of Burgundy.
 * October 3 – Warwick releases Henry VI of England from the Tower of London, and restores him to the throne.
 * November 28 – Emperor Lê Thánh Tông of Đại Việt launches a naval expedition against Champa, beginning the Cham–Annamese War.
 * December 18 – Lê Thánh Tông leads the Đại Việt army into Champa, conquering the country in less than three months.

Date unknown

 * The Pahang Sultanate is established at Pahang Darul Makmur (in modern-day Malaysia).
 * 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.
 * Johann Heynlin introduces the printing press into France and prints his first book this same year.
 * In Tonga, in or around 1470, the Tuʻi Tonga Dynasty cedes its temporal powers to the Tuʻi Haʻatakalaua 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 dedicates his book, The Compound of Alchemy, to the King Edward IV of England.
 * The Chimor–Inca War ends with an Inca victory. The Chimor Empire is absorbed into the Inca Empire.

Births

 * January 1 – Magnus I, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg, German noble (d. 1543)
 * February 16 – Eric I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Prince of Calenberg (1491–1540) (d. 1540)
 * April 7 – Edward Stafford, 2nd Earl of Wiltshire (d. 1498)
 * April 9 – Giovanni Angelo Testagrossa, Italian composer (d. 1530)
 * May 20 – Pietro Bembo, Italian cardinal (d. 1547)
 * June 30 – Charles VIII of France (d. 1498)
 * July 13 – Francesco Armellini Pantalassi de' Medici, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1528)
 * July 20 – John Bourchier, 1st Earl of Bath, English noble (d. 1539)
 * July 30 – Hongzhi Emperor of China (d. 1505)
 * August 4
 * Bernardo Dovizi, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1520)
 * Lucrezia de' Medici, Italian noblewoman (d. 1553)
 * October 2
 * George I of Münsterberg, Imperial Prince, Duke of Münsterberg and Oels, Graf von Glatz (d. 1502)
 * Isabella of Aragon, Queen of Portugal, daughter of Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon (d. 1498)
 * Isabella of Aragon, Duchess of Milan, daughter of Alfonso II of Naples (d. 1524)
 * October 10 – Selim I, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (d. 1520)
 * October 15 – Konrad Mutian, German humanist (d. 1526)
 * November 2 – King Edward V of England, the elder of the "Princes in the Tower" (d. c. 1483)
 * November 28 – Wen Zhengming, artist in Ming dynasty China (d. 1559)
 * December 5 – Willibald Pirckheimer, German humanist (d. 1530)
 * date unknown
 * Juan Díaz de Solís, Spanish navigator and explorer (d. 1516)
 * Tang Yin, Chinese painter (d. 1524)
 * Polydore Vergil, Urbinate/English historian (d. 1555)
 * probable
 * Matthias Grünewald, German painter (d. 1528)
 * Hayuya, Taino chief (d. unknown)
 * Hugh Latimer, Protestant martyr (d. 1555)

Deaths

 * January 2 – Heinrich Reuß von Plauen, Grand Master of the Teutonic Order
 * March 20 – Thomas Talbot, 2nd Viscount Lisle, English nobleman killed at the Battle of Nibley Green (b. c.1449)
 * May 15 – Charles VIII of Sweden (b. 1409)
 * August 31 – Frederick II, Count of Vaudémont (b. c.1428)
 * October 18 – John Tiptoft, 1st Earl of Worcester, Lord High Treasurer (b. 1427)
 * November 23 – Gaston, Prince of Viana (b. 1444)
 * December 16 – John II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1425)
 * date unknown
 * Domenico da Piacenza, Italian dancing master (b. 1390)
 * Pal Engjëlli, Albanian Catholic clergyman (b. 1416)
 * probable – Jacopo Bellini, Italian painter (b. 1400)