1470

January–December

• March 12 - Wars of the Roses in England - Battle of Losecoat Field: The House of York defeats the House of Lancaster.
• March 20 - The Battle of Nibley Green is the last fought between the private armies of feudal magnates in England.
• Spring: Anglo-Hanseatic War: Hanseatic League privateers set sail.
• May 15 - Charles VIII of Sweden, who has served three terms as King of Sweden, dies. Sten Sture the Elder proclaims himself Regent of Sweden the following day.
• June 1 - Sten Sure is recognised as Swedish ruler by the estates.
• July 12 - The Ottomans capture Euboea.
• August 20 - Stephen the Great defeats the Volga Tatars of the Golden Horde led by Ahmed Khan, in the Battle of Lipnic.
• September 13 - A rebellion orchestrated by King Edward IV of England's former ally, Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, forces the King to flee England to seek support from his brother-in-law, Charles the Bold of Burgundy.
• October 3 - Warwick releases Henry VI of England from the Tower of London, and restores him to the throne.
• November 28 - Emperor Lê Thánh Tông of Vietnam launches a naval expedition against Champa, beginning the Cham–Annamese War.
• December 18 - Lê Thánh Tông leads the Đại Việt army into Champa, conquering the country in less than three months.

  Date unknown

• The Pahang Sultanate is established at Pahang Darul Makmur.
• History of Ghana: The first contact occurs between Europeans and the Fante nation of the Gold Coast, when a party of Portuguese land and meet with the King of Elmina.
• Johann Heynlin introduces the printing press into France and prints his first book this same year.
• In Tonga, in or around 1470, the Tuʻi Tonga Dynasty cedes its temporal powers to the Tuʻi Haʻatakalaua Dynasty, which will remain prominent until about 1600.
• Between this year and 1700, 8,888 witches are tried in the Swiss Confederation; 5,417 of them are executed.
• Sir George Ripley dedicates his book, The Compound of Alchemy, to the King Edward IV of England.
• The Chimor–Inca War ends with an Inca victory. The Chimor Empire is absorbed into the Inca Empire.

  Births

• January 1 - Magnus I, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg, German noble
• February 16 - Eric I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Prince of Calenberg
• April 7 - Edward Stafford, 2nd Earl of Wiltshire
• April 9 - Giovanni Angelo Testagrossa, Italian composer
• May 20 - Pietro Bembo, Italian cardinal
• June 30 - Charles VIII of France
• July 13 - Francesco Armellini Pantalassi de' Medici, Italian Catholic cardinal
• July 20 - John Bourchier, 1st Earl of Bath, English noble
• July 30 - Hongzhi Emperor of China
• August 4
• * Bernardo Dovizi, Italian Catholic cardinal
• * Lucrezia de' Medici, Italian noblewoman
• October 2
• * Isabella of Aragon, Queen of Portugal, daughter of Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon
• * Isabella of Aragon, Duchess of Milan, daughter of King Alfonso II of Naples
• * George I of Münsterberg, Imperial Prince, Duke of Münsterberg and Oels, Graf von Glatz
• October 15 - Konrad Mutian, German humanist
• November 2 - King Edward V of England, one of the princes in the Tower
• November 28 - Wen Zhengming, artist during the Ming Dynasty
• December 5 - Willibald Pirckheimer, German humanist
• date unknown
• * Thomas Cajetan, Italian theologian and cardinal
• * Juan Díaz de Solís, Spanish navigator and explorer
• * Wen Zhengming, Chinese painter
• * Tang Yin, Chinese painter
• probable
• * Matthias Grünewald, German painter
• * Hayuya, Taino chief
• * Hugh Latimer, Protestant martyr

  Deaths

• January 2 - Heinrich Reuß von Plauen, Grand Master of the Teutonic Order
• May 15 - Charles VIII of Sweden
• October 18 - John Tiptoft, 1st Earl of Worcester, Lord High Treasurer
• November 23 - Gaston, Prince of Viana
• December 16 - John II, Duke of Lorraine
• date unknown
• * Domenico da Piacenza, Italian dancing master
• * Pal Engjëlli, Albanian Catholic clergyman
• probable - Jacopo Bellini, Italian painter