This page relates to the year 1468 Calendrier Julien.

Events

Africa

• January 20th: The king of the Songhaï Sonni Ali Ber drives out the Touareg Tombouctou. He seizes the city with the complicity of his governor and in makes massacre the majority of the inhabitants. After being itself well established in the city, Sonni Ali begins the conquest of the Macina and the Top Niger.

• August 26th: Beginning of the reign of Baéda-Maryam, king of Ethiopia (fine in 1478).

The Middle East

• July 30th: The king of Cyprus Jacques II of Lusignan wife by procuration Catherine Corner, Venetian. The Republic of Venice makes specify in the marriage contract that if the king had suddenly died without heir, Cyprus would return to Venice.

• October - November: The Othoman vizier Mahmoud pasha occupies the Karamanie. He will be disgraced on his return by the sultan Mehmet II following the intrigues of Roum Mehmed pasha, the second vizier, then recalled in 1472.

Europe

Central Europe & Balkans

• January 17th: The death of Skanderbeg (1405 -1468) after twenty years of heroic resistance to the Othoman opens with Mehmet II the doors of the Albania.

• Thirty Turkish incursions in Slovenia between 1468 and 1483.
• Mathias Corvin fight against the Bohemia (1468-1479). It takes the title of king of Bohemia in 1470 but in front of the resolution of the Czechs and their king Georges de Poděbrady, it can establish its authority only on the Moravie and the Silesia.

British Isles

• Beginning of the domination of the Ireland by Fitzgerald of Kildare (fine in 1534).
• the the Orkneys and the the Shetland S are engaged by the Norway with the Scotland to provide the dowry of the girl of the king (1468 - 1469). Refunding will not be carried out at the appropriate time and the two archipelagoes will escape the authority definitively from king de Norvège.
• Edouard IV of England declares the war at the cities of the Hanse in answer to their claims on the monopoly of the trade towards Scandinavia and the Russia, which provide wood and tar (naval constructions), ash and potash (dyeing of wool cloths), furs and fish dried.

France

• April 1st: Meeting of the General states, with Turns, by Louis XI, which obtains a judgment of the Ligue of the Public property. The States affirm the inalienability of the Normandy, which belongs to the crown. They act by monarchical loyalty but also by solidarity with the taxpayers, the creation of a Norman prerogative having meant shortfall for the treasure.

• July 3rd: marriage with Bruges of Charles Bold the, duke of Burgundy, and Marguerite of York (1446-1503), sister of the king Edouard IV of England.

• September 10th: Treaty of Ancenis between François II of Brittany and Louis XI of France. The duke of Brittany commits himself breaking his alliances with the duke of Burgundy Charles and the king of England Edouard IV, while the king of France promises a pension of 60  000 pounds with his/her brother Charles of France as well as the concession of a prerogative remaining to define.

• October: Louis XI encourages in writing pad the revolts of Liege and Ghent against Charles Bold the. The Louis prince-bishop is driven out of Liege.

• 10 - October 14th: Louis XI of France and Charles Bold the have an interview and sign the Traité Fibula. This interview is in particular evoked in the novel of Walter Scott “ Quentin Durward ”. Louis XI seeks to negotiate with Charles against Brittany. Charles the Bold one retains the king of France and releases it only after it gave Champagne to his brother Charles de Berry and attended the repression of the revolt of Liege (October 30th).

Principality of Liege

• November 3rd: The town of Liege is put at bag and shaven by the Burgundian troops of Charles Bold the, in reprisals with the takeover by force tried by the six hundreds Franchimontois in the night of the 29 to the October 30th.

Art & culture

• night Hunting , painting of Paolo Uccello.
• Hugo Van der Goes goes to Bruges where it takes part in the development of decorations for the marriage of Charles Bold the with Marguerite of York.
• Dierick Bouts is named official painter of the town of Leuwen.

• November 20th: Publication of Drawing the White , novel of Joanot Martorell.
• the cardinal Bessarion, scholar Greek refugee with Rome, bequeaths to Venice its considerable Greek Bibliothèque which constitutes one of the funds of the Biblioteca Marciana .

Science & technology

• the Jewish doctor Don Abiatar Aben Crescas operates cataract Jean II of Aragon.
• the Riz is cultivated in Italy.

Economy & company

• the English lawyer John Fortescue writes his work on the not written English laws.

Births in 1468

• January 26th: Guillaume Budé, humanistic French

• February 29th: the Pope Paul III, ( Alessandro Farnese ), 220e Pope of the Catholic church. († November 10th 1549).

Death in 1468

• January 17th: Georges Skanderberg, soldier

• February 3rd: Johannes Gutenberg, inventor of Western printing works, with Mainz. One then counts in Germany ten workshops of printing works.
• November 24th: Jean of Orleans, count de Dunois (1403-1468).
• infant It Alphonse XII of Castille, husband of Jeanne, girl of Jean II of Castille, claiming with the throne.
• Zara Yacoub, king of Ethiopia, which is buried with the Lac Tanned, in the monastic church of the island of Dak.
• Abu-l-Khayr (Chaybanides).

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