Year was a Leap Year Starting On Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian Calendar .
- The first Portuguese navigators reach the coast of modern Sierra Leone .
- March 5 - King Christian I Of Denmark issues the Treaty Of Ribe .
- March 6 - Treaty Of Alcacovas - Portugal gives Castile the Canary Islands in exchange for claims in West Africa
- March 7 - Bavaria original formula was discover in Dortmund, Germany.
- May 4 - Portuguese navigators Diogo Gomes e António da Nola discovered the islands of Cape Vert
- June - The Earl Of Warwick and Edward, Earl Of March , eldest son of the Duke of York, land in England with an army and seize London.
- July 18 - Battle Of Northampton - Warwick and March defeat a Lancastrian army and seize King Henry. It is agreed that York will be Henry's heir, disinheriting the King's son Edward Of Westminster, Prince Of Wales .
- December 30 - Battle Of Wakefield - A Lancastrian army under Henry Beaufort, Duke Of Somerset and Henry Percy, Earl Of Northumberland defeats a Yorkist army under the Duke Of York and his son, Edmund, Earl Of Rutland . Both York and Rutland are killed, the latter murdered after the battle. York's son Edward becomes leader of the Yorkist faction.
- May 3 - Raffaele Riario , cardinal (died 1521 )
- May 8 - Frederick I, Margrave Of Brandenburg-Ansbach (died 1536 )
- September 29 - Louis II De La Trémoille , military leader (died 1525 )
- ''date unknown''
- --- Svante Nilsson , regent of Sweden (died 1512 )
- --- Edward Sutton, 2nd Baron Dudley (died 1532 )
- ''probable''
- --- Antoine Brumel , Flemish composer (died 1515 )
- --- Tristão Da Cunha , Portuguese explorer (died 1540 )
- --- Konstanty Ostrogski , Grand Hetman of Lithuania (died 1530 )
- --- Vicente Yáñez Pinzón , Spanish navigator (died 1523 )
- --- Tilman Riemenschneider , German sculptor (died 1531 )
- --- Arnolt Schlick , German organist and composer
- --- Charles Somerset, 1st Earl Of Worcester (died 1526 )
- July 10
- --- Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke Of Buckingham , English military leader (born 1402 )
- --- John Talbot, 2nd Earl Of Shrewsbury (born c. 1413)
- August 3 - King James II Of Scotland (born 1430 )
- September 20 - Gilles Binchois , Flemish composer
- November 13 - Prince Henry The Navigator , Portuguese patron of exploration (born 1394 )
- December 14 - Guarino Da Verona , Italian humanist (born 1370 )
- December 30 - Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke Of York , claimant to the English throne (killed in battle) (born 1411 )
- December 31
- --- Richard Neville, 5th Earl Of Salisbury , English politician (executed) (born 1400 )
- --- Edmund, Earl Of Rutland , brother of Kings Edward IV Of England and Richard III Of England (executed) (b. 1443 )
- ''date unknown''
- --- Francesco II Acciajuoli , last Duke of Athens
- --- Israel Isserlin , German Jewish scholar
- --- Reginald Pecock , prelate and writer
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