des Dams du Temps Jadis" in Le Grand Testament, 1461 Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance...

The decade of the 1460s in art involved some significant events. 1465 Andrea Mantegna begins work on the frescoes in the Camera degli Sposi of the Ducal...

1450s 1460s 1470s 1480s 1490s 1500 in poetry – La Araucana - Alonso de Ercilla 1501 in poetry – Judita - Marko Marulić 1502 in poetry 1503 in poetry 1504...

poet 15th century in literature Macronic poetry Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993...

millennium, the 60th year of the 15th century, and the 1st year of the 1460s decade. January 15 – Battle of Sandwich: Yorkists raid Sandwich, Kent, England...

millennium, the 63rd year of the 15th century, and the 4th year of the 1460s decade. January 5 – French poet François Villon receives a reprieve from...

1460s - 1470s - 1480s - 1490s 1300s - 1310s - 1320s - 1330s - 1340s - 1350s - 1360s - 1370s - 1380s - 1390s List of years in poetry Table of years in...

Khotyn Fortress, constructed in the 13-15th centuries (new fortress started in 1325, major improvements in the 1380s and 1460s), and two 15th century constructions...

of Maximillian of Austria. February 3 – Bartolomeu Dias of Portugal lands in Mossel Bay, after rounding the Cape of Good Hope at the tip of Africa, becoming...

d'antan?, an example of the ubi sunt motif, which was common in medieval poetry and particularly in Villon's ballads. This was translated into English by Dante...

poetry can be dated. Several of Dunbar's poems were included in the Chepman and Myllar prints of 1508, the first books to be printed in Scotland. In 1510...

the Ottoman Empire (80,000 strong), led by Mesid Bey of Vidin, near Sibiu in Transylvania. June 2 – Alfonso of Aragon proclaims himself King of Naples...

Plantagenet, Duke of York, becomes Protector for King Henry VI of England, who is in a catatonic state. April 9 – Treaty of Lodi: Francesco Sforza forms a triple...

is published in Foligno. June 20-year-old Leonardo da Vinci is admitted as a master in his own right to the artists' Guild of Saint Luke in Florence. (approximate...

first known shop specialising in eyeglasses opens in Strasbourg. The second largest bell of Saint Peter's Church, Fritzlar in Hesse is cast by Meister Goswin...

and Sons. March 1872. Brinton, Selwyn (1909). The Renaissance in Italian Art: A Series in Nine Parts. Vol. 5. G. Bell & Sons. p. 16. "Louise Of Savoy |...

of the battle). The Portuguese set up their first trading post (Feitoria) in Africa, on the island of Arguin. Portuguese explorer Dinis Dias discovers...

II, Count of Celje, defeats the army of Stjepan Banić at Samobor, Croatia in union with Hungary. September – The Dutch–Hanseatic War concludes with the...

probably in the 1460s, published the hymns at the end of a collection of the other works then considered Homeric. This arrangement became standard in subsequent...

the church in Sarnen. According to contemporary accounts, around 900 men from the Habsburg army and around 100 men from the Swiss army fell in the battle...

The League of Lezhë, an alliance of Albanian principalities, is established in Lezhë; George Kastrioti Skanderbeg is proclaimed commander of the Albanian...

Venice enacts the Venetian Patent Statute, one of the earliest patent systems in the world. New and inventive devices, once put into practice, have to be communicated...

forgery. Sir Richard Molyneux is appointed constable of Liverpool Castle, in England. The Ming dynasty government of China begins a decade-long series...

Yorkists are defeated and, in the aftermath, King Edward IV of England is taken prisoner. August–October – Caister Castle in England is besieged by John...

legendary Founding of Rome in 753 BC. Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye is the first book to be printed in English, by William Caxton in Bruges (or 1473–74?)...

in their efforts to create in the Low Countries a centralized state. February 27 – Uppsala University is founded, becoming the first university in Sweden...

VIII of Sweden is publicly hailed as king at Mora Stones, and is crowned in Uppsala Cathedral the following day. August 14 – Battle of Oronichea: Albania...

populations to 'perpetual slavery'. (Later there will be a dramatic reversal when, in 1537, the bull Sublimis Deus of Pope Paul III forbids the enslavement of non-Christians...

built in Celje, Slovenia. Almanach cracoviense ad annum 1474, an astronomical wall calendar, is published in Kraków, the oldest known printing in Poland...

States in 1965, by A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. April 21 – The adoption of the Sentència Arbitral de Guadalupe ends the War of the Remences, in the...