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Events

September 23 - Battle Of Blore Heath . Yorkists under the Earl Of Salisbury defeat a Lancastrian force.

October 12 - Due to the advance of a royal force on his fortress of Ludlow , The Duke Of York flees to Ireland, while his ally Warwick goes to Calais .

First mention of the Wallachia n town of Bucharest .

City of Jodhpur , in western India , founded by Rao Jodha of Marwar .

Births

March 2 - Pope Adrian VI (died 1523 )

March 6 - Jacob Fugger , German banker (d. 1525 )

March 22 - Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1519 )

October 6 - Martin Behaim , German explorer and cartographer (died 1507 )

Cem , pretender to the Ottoman throne (died 1495 )

Lorenzo Di Credi , Florentine painter and sculptor (died 1537 )

Edward Poyning , Lord Deputy to King Henry VII of England (died 1521 )

Deaths

March 3 - Ausiàs March , Catalan poet (b. 1397 )

October 30 - Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini , Italian humanist (born 1380 )

December 4 - Adolf VIII , Duke of Southern Jutland (b. 1401 )

James Tuchet, 5th Baron Audley (born 1400 )

Eric Of Pomerania , King of Norway, Denmark and Sweden (born 1382 )

John Fastolf , English soldier

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