March 28 – King Edward IV gives royal assent to acts passed by the English Parliament, including the Pattens Act 1464, regulating the manufacture of pattens, shoes with wooden soles and heels, and leather covering, declaring that “Patten-makers may make pattens of such asp as is not fit for shafts.” The law is among several given royal assent to regulate clothing, including the Cloths Act, the Exportation of Wool Act and Contracting for Wool Act and the Shoemakers Act.[4] The parliament, in session since April 29, 1463, closes.
April–June
April 27 – Nobility in the Castilian city of Plasencia declare that they will consider King Enrique IV deposed, four months after the Liga Nobiliaria had issued an ultimatum to the King.[5]
May 26 – Elizabeth Woodville, Queen consort of Edward IV of England, is crowned in a lavish ceremony at Westminster Abbey.
June 5 – The Farce of Ávila takes place in the Kingdom of Castile in Spain as noblemen in Ávila declare that King Enrique IV is deposed and that they will only recognize his half-brother, Alfonso, Prince of Asturias, as their monarch.[5] King Enrique, who was the subject of a similar deposition in Plasencia on April 27, continues his reign of the rest of the kingdom from Madrid.
July–September
July 13 – Henry of Lancaster, the former King Henry VI of England is captured at Waddington Hall in Lancashire, by Yorkist forces.[8] Henry and his aide, Sir Richard Tunstall, had been staying as the guest of Sir Richard Tempest when his brother. Richard’s brother, John Tempest attempts to arrest Henry, but Tunstall and Henry flee to the Clitheroe forest and are captured by the River Ribble.
September 7 – With the approval by the Holy Roman Emperor Friedrich III, the Bohemian captain Hinko Tannfeld to plunder the Hungarian town of Sopron.
September 23 – Pope Matthew II of Alexandria, leader of the Coptic Christian Church, dies after a reign of 13 years. The Coptic papacy will remain vacant for five months until the election of Gabriel VI as the new Pope.
October 20 – Near Sint-Truiden in what is now Belgium, Charles the Bold, son of the Duke of Burgundy leads his troops to victory over the rebellious province of Liege at the Battle of Montenaken, and 1,200 of the rebels are killed.[14]
December 22 – The Treaty of Saint-Trond is signed to end the war between the Burgundian Netherlands (ruled by Philip the Good) and the Prince-Bishopric of Liège, ending the First Liège War, which had started four months earlier. Liège is allowed to keep its sovereignty at the cost of paying for the Burgundian war expenses and designating Charles the Bold, son of the Duke Philip, as heir to the rule of the area.[16]
December 23 – The Treaty of Caen is signed between King Louis XI of France and Francis II, Duke of Brittany.[13]
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Massive flooding in central and southern China motivates the initial construction of hundreds of new bridges.
^Vicens Vives, Jaume (2003) [1953]. Paul Freedman i Josep Mª Muñoz i Lloret (ed.). Juan II de Aragón (1398-1479): monarquía y revolución en la España del siglo XV [John II of Aragon (1398-1479): Monarchy and Revolution in 15th century Spain] (in Spanish). Pamplona: Urgoiti editores. ISBN 84-932479-8-7.
^ abEnrique Soria (2008), ““Farsa de Ávila: los nobles contra el rey de Castilla”” [Farce of Avila: The nobles against the king of Castille], Historia National Geographic (in Spanish), vol. 49, pp. 20–23, ISSN1696-7755
^Stillman, Norman A. (1979). The Jews of Arab Lands. Jewish Publication Society. p. 81. ISBN 978-0-8276-1155-9. Retrieved 30 September 2024.
^Manoshi Bhattacharya, The Royal Rajputs: Strange Tales and Stranger Truths (Rupa Publications, 2008) p.263 ISBN 978812911272
^ abcAlexander Gillespie, The Causes of War: Volume III: 1400 CE to 1650 CE, (Hart Publishing, 2017), p.26
^Smith, Robert; Kelly DeVries (2005). The Artillery of the Dukes of Burgundy, 1363-1477. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer. pp. 150–151. ISBN 1-84383-162-7.
^Alain Marchandise, Irène Vrancken-Pirson and Jean-Louis Kupper, “La destruction de la ville de Liège (1468) et sa reconstruction”, in Destruction et reconstruction de villes, du moyen age à nos jours (Brussels, 1999), pp. 72-73.
