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 Sture is recognised as Swedish ruler by the estates.
• July 12 – The Ottomans capture Euboea.
• August 20 – Battle of Lipnic: Stephen the Great defeats the Volga Tatars of the Golden Horde, led by Ahmed Khan.
• 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 Đại Việt 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 (in modern-day Malaysia).
• 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.

• January 1 – Magnus I, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg, German noble (d. 1543)
• February 16 – Eric I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Prince of Calenberg (1491–1540) (d. 1540)
• April 7 – Edward Stafford, 2nd Earl of Wiltshire (d. 1498)
• April 9 – Giovanni Angelo Testagrossa, Italian composer (d. 1530)
• May 20 – Pietro Bembo, Italian cardinal (d. 1547)
• June 30 – Charles VIII of France (d. 1498)
• July 13 – Francesco Armellini Pantalassi de' Medici, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1528)
• July 20 – John Bourchier, 1st Earl of Bath, English noble (d. 1539)
• July 30 – Hongzhi Emperor of China (d. 1505)
• August 4
  • Bernardo Dovizi, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1520)
  • Lucrezia de' Medici, Italian noblewoman (d. 1553)
• October 2
  • George I of Münsterberg, Imperial Prince, Duke of Münsterberg and Oels, Graf von Glatz (d. 1502)
  • Isabella of Aragon, Queen of Portugal, daughter of Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon (d. 1498)
  • Isabella of Aragon, Duchess of Milan, daughter of Alfonso II of Naples (d. 1524)
• October 10 – Selim I, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (d. 1520)
• October 15 – Konrad Mutian, German humanist (d. 1526)
• November 2 – King Edward V of England, the elder of the "Princes in the Tower" (d. c. 1483)
• November 28 – Wen Zhengming, artist in Ming dynasty China (d. 1559)
• December 5 – Willibald Pirckheimer, German humanist (d. 1530)
• date unknown
  • Juan Díaz de Solís, Spanish navigator and explorer (d. 1516)
  • Tang Yin, Chinese painter (d. 1524)
  • Polydore Vergil, Urbinate/English historian (d. 1555)
• probable
  • Matthias Grünewald, German painter (d. 1528)
  • Hayuya, Taino chief (d. unknown)
  • Hugh Latimer, Protestant martyr (d. 1555)

• January 2 – Heinrich Reuß von Plauen, Grand Master of the Teutonic Order
• March 20 – Thomas Talbot, 2nd Viscount Lisle, English nobleman killed at the Battle of Nibley Green (b. c.1449)
• May 15 – Charles VIII of Sweden (b. 1409)
• August 31 – Frederick II, Count of Vaudémont (b. c.1428)
• October 18 – John Tiptoft, 1st Earl of Worcester, Lord High Treasurer (b. 1427)
• November 23 – Gaston, Prince of Viana (b. 1444)
• December 16 – John II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1425)
• date unknown
  • Domenico da Piacenza, Italian dancing master (b. 1390)
  • Pal Engjëlli, Albanian Catholic clergyman (b. 1416)
• probable – Jacopo Bellini, Italian painter (b. 1400)