January 19 – King James II of Scotland gives royal assent to numerous acts passed by the Scottish Parliament in 1449, including the Leases Act 1449 (“Of takis of landis for termes and takis of wedset (mortgaged) landis eftir the oute quyting of the lande”), the Coinage Act, the Parties Summoned to King’s Council Act and the Statute Law Revision Act (“Persons chosyn of the thre estatis til examyn the actis of parliamentis and general counsallis”). [1]
March 11 – The First Margrave War comes to an end in Germany as Albrecht III Achilles, Elector of Brandenburg, is defeated by Nuremberg troops a t the battle of Pillenreuther Reiher.
March 15 – English commander Thomas Kyriell and 2,500 soldiers land at Cherbourg in English-occupied France, where they join another 1,800 English troops recruited by the Duke of Somerset from the garrisons at Bayeux, Caen and Vire.[4]
June 8 – The 17th English Parliament of King Henry VI closes. Royal assent is given to several acts, including a seven-year prohibition of importation of products from the Dutch provinces of Holland, Zealand and Brabant “until English cloth may be sold there.”[9]
June 18 – Battle of Solefields (Sevenoaks): Jack Cade‘s rebels are driven from London by loyal troops.
June 20 – The First Margrave War between Nuremberg and Brandenburg ends with the signing of a peace treaty at Bamberg. Under the treaty, Albrecht III Achilles, Elector of Brandenburg, is forced to return all lands that he had captured from Nuremberg.
July 7 – The surviving rebels who had participated in Jack Cade’s rebellion in England are pardoned by King Henry VI. Cade himself, who had adoped the alias “John Mortimer”, is pardoned under that name until his identity is discovered.[10] Cade himself is killed by Alexander Iden on July 12, after resisting arrest for treason. His corpse is given a mock trial at Newgate Prison and the body beheaded, then dragged through the streets of London and quartered, with the limbs being sent throughout the county of Kent, where the rebellion had started.[11]
August 29 – The Treaty of Bergen is signed by officials of Norway and Sweden to reunite the two kingdoms under the rule of King Christian I. Both Norway and Sweden retain self-government and their own governing bodies.[12]
September 5 – Three months after the close of the last session, King Henry VI summons the members of the English Parliament to assemble at Westminster on November 6.[9]
Machu Picchu (Quechua: Machu Pikchu, “Old mountain”), a pre-ColumbianInca site located 2,400 meters (7,875 ft) above sea level, is believed to be under construction.[17]
A religious sacrifice of over a hundred children is performed around this time, outside of the ancient city of Chan Chan (near modern Trujillo), on the north coast of Peru.[18][19]
^Fernão d’Ulmo becomes the first settler. Bento, Carlos Melo (2008), História dos Açores: Da descoberta a 1934 (in Portuguese), Ponta Delgada (Azores), Portugal: Câmara Municipal de Ponta Delgada, p. 27
^Rogers, Clifford (2010). The Oxford Encyclopedia of Medieval Warfare and Military Technology: Volume 1. Oxford University Press. p. 54. ISBN 978-0195334036.
^].Rogers, Clifford (2010). The Oxford Encyclopedia of Medieval Warfare and Military Technology: Volume 1. Oxford University Press. p. 54. ISBN 978-0195334036.
^Harvey, I. M. W. (1991). Jack Cade’s Rebellion of 1450. Oxford: Clarendon Press, p. 97
^Harvey, I. M. W. (1991). Jack Cade’s Rebellion of 1450. Oxford: Clarendon Press, p. 100
^Salvesen, Helge; Norseng, Per G.; Opsahl, Erik. “Kalmarunionen”. In Bolstad, Erik (ed.). Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 21 May 2019.
^Mote, Frederick W. (1988). “The Ch’eng-hua and Hung-chih Reigns, 1465-1505”. In Frederick W. Mote; Denis C. Twitchett (eds.). The Ming Dynasty, 1368–1644, Part 1. The Cambridge History of China. Vol. 7. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 330, 402. doi:10.1017/CHOL9780521243322.008. ISBN 9781139054751.
^Klooster, John W. (2009). Icons of invention: the makers of the modern world from Gutenberg to Gates. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO. p. 8. ISBN 978-0-313-34745-0.
