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World

General

Population: 426 Million*
  • Chronology: Unofficial start of the Renaissance
  • Entertainment: Leonardo da Vinci becomes pupil of Berrocchio
  • Deaths: Henry VI of England, Charles VII of France, Astronomer Georg Purbach

Americas

  • Height of Aztec empire

Europe

  • General: End of skirmishes known as Hundred Years War in England and France
  • Albania: Scanderbeg becomes Prince of Albania
  • England: Death of Henry VI of England - Edward IV reigns
    Continue War of the Roses - Battles of Mortimer's Cross and Towton
    With help of Earl of Warwick (Kingmaker) Edward son of Richard of York defeats Lancastrians at Battle of Towton
  • France: Death of Charles VII and son Louis XI rules
  • Greece: Turks conquer Trebizond the last surviving Greek state

Middle East

  • Ottomans: Turks conquer Trebizond the last surviving Greek state
    Ottoman Turks conquer Trebizond (Trabzon) Turkey – capital of Comnenian empire since 1204



 
 
 
 
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