January 4 – Barnaba Adorno becomes the new Doge of the Republic of Genoa when his cousin Raffaele Adorno steps down after slightly less than four years in office. Baranaba holds the office for only a few weeks before being forced by the Adorno family’s rivals, the Campofregoso family to flee the Doge’s Palace on January 29.[1]
January 30 – Giano di Campofregoso is elected as the new Doge of Genoa the day after his family forces Barnaba Adorno out of the city.[1]
February 11 – The English Parliament is opened by King Henry VI for a three week session that closes on March 3.
February 23 – Pope Eugene IV, leader of the Roman Catholic Church since 1431, dies shortly after issuing his last papal bulls.
February 27 – Vasily II returns as Grand Prince of Moscow after being recalled from exile by Dmitry Shemyaka, who had blinded him the year before. Shemyaka still attempts to control the Principality of Moscow.
March 6 – On the fourth vote of the papal conclave, Prospero Colonna is still unable to gain more than 10 votes, and Cardinal Capranica addresses the group, warning that Rome would be under attack from the King of Aragon. At the intervention of Cardinal Giovanni Berardi, the cardinals begin voting for a compromise candidate, Tommaso Parentucelli, who wins 12 votes. Parentucelli then takes the regnal name of Pope Nicholas V, the 208th Bishop of Rome and Pope.[5]
March 13 – At Herat, Ulugh Beg (born Mirza Muhammad Taraghay) becomes the new ruler of the Timurid Empire upon the death of his father Sharukh Mirza, who had reigned for 42 years.[6] The Empire is in decline but still controls most of what is now Afghanistan as well as parts of Iraq and Pakistan.
March 19 – The coronation of Tommaso Parentucelli as Pope Nicholas V takes place in Rome. The crown is placed upon his head by Cardinal Prospero Colonna, who had come within two votes of being selected as the Pope on March 5.
October 11 – In the Battle of Bosco Marengo in Italy, the army the Ambrosian Republic of Milan defeats the 3,000-member force of the Duchy of Orléans, killing half of their troops while losing only 500 of its 3,700 men.[17]
November 16 – In the War of the Milanese Succession, Francesco Sforza, leader of the forces of the Ambrosian Republic of Milan, overwhelms the city of Piacenza after a siege that began on October 1. According to a contemporary account, Piacenza “endured every evil” from the Milanese over the next 50 days. Cristoforo da Soldo comments that “as for the ravaging of the land that was plundered, it would take a great pile of paper to write down the many cruelties. All the churches were robbed.. virgins, married women, widows, and nuns, all of them were shamed, abused and wrongly molested.”[18]
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^“Ulugh Beg”, Volume II of Four Studies on the History of Central Asia, by V. V. Barthold (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1958) p.147
^Moshe Gammer, Muslim Resistance to the Tsar: Shamil and the Conquest of Chechnia and Daghestan (Portland OR: Frank Cass, 1994)
^Rogers, Francis M. (1961). The Travels of the Infante Dom Pedro of Portugal. Harvard Studies in Romance Languages. Vol. XXVI. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. p. 59.
^Frost, Robert (2015). The Making of the Polish-Lithuanian Union 1385–1569, Volume 1. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 327. ISBN 978-0-19-101787-2.
^Ștefan Ștefănescu, Istoria medie a României, *(Bucharest, 1991) p.105
^Diana Robin, Filelfo in Milan: Writings 1451-1477 (Princeton University Press, 2014) p.65
^Constantin Rezachevici, Cronologia critică a domnilor din Țara Românească și Moldova a. 1324 – 1881 (Critical Chronology of the Lords of Wallachia and Moldavia 1324 – 1881) (Bucharest: Editura Enciclopedică, 2001)
^Chö Yang: The Voice of Tibetan Religion and Culture. (1991) Year of Tibet Edition, p. 79. Gangchen Kyishong, Dharmasala, H.P., India.
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