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== Events ==
* [[February 12]] - The first complete edition of [[Avicenna]]'s [[The Canon of Medicine]] (in Latin translation) is published in [[Milan]].
* [[August 11]] - [[Sultan]] of the [[Ottoman Empire]] [[Mehmed II]] defeats the White Sheep [[Turkmenistan|Turkmens]] led by [[Uzun Hasan]] at [[Otlukbeli]].

=== Unknown dates ===
* [[Axayacatl]], [[Aztec]] ruler of [[Tenochtitlan]], in present-day [[Mexico]], invades the [[territory]] of the neighbouring Aztec city of [[Tlatelolco]]. The ruler of Tlatelolco is killed and replaced by a [[military]] [[governor]], and it loses its independence in the process.
* The [[city]] walls of [[Celje]], [[Slovenia]], are built.
* [[Marsilio Ficino]] becomes a [[priest]].
* [[Nicolo Marcello]] becomes [[Doge]] of [[Venice]].

== Births ==
[[File:Nikolaus Kopernikus.jpg|thumb|150px|right|[[Nicolaus Copernicus]] 1473-1543]]
* [[February 19]] &ndash; [[Nicolaus Copernicus]], astronomer and mathematician (d. [[1543]])
* [[March 16]] &ndash; [[Henry IV, Duke of Saxony]] (d. [[1541]])
* [[March 17]] &ndash; King [[James IV of Scotland]] (d. [[1513]])
* [[August 14]] &ndash; [[Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury]] (d. [[1541]])
* [[August 17]] &ndash; [[Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York|Richard, Duke of York]], one of the Princes in the Tower (d. [[1483]])
* [[September 24]] &ndash; [[Georg von Frundsberg]], German Knight and landowner (d. [[1528]])
* [[October 26]] &ndash; [[Friedrich of Saxony (1473-1510)|Friedrich of Saxony]] (d. [[1510]])
* ''date unknown'' &ndash; [[Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk]], Tudor politician (d. [[1555]])
* ''probable''
** [[Jean Lemaire de Belges]], Walloon poet and historian (d. [[1525]])
** [[Edward of Middleham, Prince of Wales]], only son of [[Richard III of England]] (d. [[1484]])
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== Deaths ==
* [[January 24]] &ndash; [[Conrad Paumann]], German composer (b. c. [[1410]])
* [[February 23]] &ndash; [[Arnold, Duke of Gelderland]] (b. [[1410]])
* April &ndash; [[Alessandro Sforza]], condottiero
* [[May 8]] &ndash; [[John Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire]], English politician (b. [[1420]])
* [[July 10]] &ndash; [[James II of Cyprus]] (b. c. [[1440]])
* [[December 24]] &ndash; [[John Cantius]], Polish scholar and theologian (b. [[1390]])
* ''date unknown''
** [[Jean Jouffroy]], French prelate and diplomat (b. c. [[1412]])
** [[Hosokawa Katsumoto]], Japanese nobleman (b. [[1430]])
** [[Nicholas I, Duke of Lorraine]] (b. [[1448]])
** [[Yamana Sōzen]], Japanese daimyo and monk (b. [[1404]])
* ''probable'' &ndash; [[Patriarch Gennadios II of Constantinople]] (b. c. [[1400]])

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