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Calendar year
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 14th century 15th century 16th century |
| Decades: | 1440s 1450s 1460s 1470s 1480s |
| Years: | 1465 1466 1467 1468 1469 1470 1471 |
1468 in various calendars
| Gregorian calendar | 1468_MCDLXVIII_ |
|---|---|
| Ab urbe condita | 2221 |
| Armenian calendar | 917ԹՎ ՋԺԷ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6218 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1389–1390 |
| Bengali calendar | 874–875 |
| Berber calendar | 2418 |
| English Regnal year | 7 Edw. 4 – 8 Edw. 4 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2012 |
| Burmese calendar | 830 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6976–6977 |
| Chinese calendar | 丁亥年 (Fire Pig)4165 or 3958 _— to —_戊子年 (Earth Rat)4166 or 3959 |
| Coptic calendar | 1184–1185 |
| Discordian calendar | 2634 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1460–1461 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5228–5229 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1524–1525 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1389–1390 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4568–4569 |
| Holocene calendar | 11468 |
| Igbo calendar | 468–469 |
| Iranian calendar | 846–847 |
| Islamic calendar | 872–873 |
| Japanese calendar | Ōnin 2(応仁２年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1384–1385 |
| Julian calendar | 1468_MCDLXVIII_ |
| Korean calendar | 3801 |
| Minguo calendar | 444 before ROC民前444年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 0 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2010–2011 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴火猪年(female Fire-Pig)1594 or 1213 or 441 _— to —_阳土鼠年(male Earth-Rat)1595 or 1214 or 442 |
Year 1468 (MCDLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar.
- June 30 – Catherine Cornaro is married by proxy to James II of Cyprus, beginning the Venetian conquest of Cyprus.
- August 26 – Baeda Maryam succeeds his father Zara Yaqob, as Emperor of Ethiopia.
- October 14 – The Treaty of Péronne is signed by Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, and Louis XI of France.[1]
- October 30 – Troops of Charles the Bold conduct the Sack of Liège.
- The Lancastrians surrender Harlech Castle to King Edward IV of England after a seven-year siege.
- The Great Council of the Republic of Venice attempts to curb the power of the Council of Ten through legislation restricting them to acting on emergency matters.
- Orkney is pledged by Christian I, in his capacity as King of Norway, as security against the payment of the dowry of his daughter Margaret, betrothed to James III of Scotland. As the money is never paid, the connection with the crown of Scotland becomes perpetual.
- Fire breaks out at Metz Cathedral in France.
- Sonni Ali, king of the Songhai Empire, takes power over Timbuktu.
- February 29 – Pope Paul III (d. 1549)[2]
- March 28 – Charles I, Duke of Savoy (d. 1490)
- April 27 – Frederick Jagiellon, Primate of Poland (d. 1503)
- May 31 – Philip, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen, German prince (d. 1500)
- June 30 – John, Elector of Saxony (1525–1532) (d. 1532)[3]
- July 24 – Catherine of Saxony, Archduchess of Austria (d. 1524)
- August 3 – Albert I, Duke of Münsterberg-Oels, Count of Kladsko (d. 1511)
- August 26 – Bernardo de' Rossi, Italian bishop (d. 1527)
- December 21 – William Conyers, 1st Baron Conyers, English baron (d. 1524)
- date unknown
- Marino Ascanio Caracciolo, Italian cardinal (d. 1538)
- Mir Chakar Khan Rind, Baloch chieftain (d. 1565)
- Juan de Zumárraga, Spanish Franciscan prelate and first bishop of Mexico (d. 1548)
- probable – Alonso de Ojeda, Spanish conquistador and explorer (d. 1515)
- February 3 – Johannes Gutenberg, inventor of printing press with replaceable letters (b. c.1398)[4]
- March 12 – Astorre II Manfredi, Italian noble (b. 1412)
- September 23 – Sejo of Joseon, King of Joseon (b. 1417)
- June 10 – Idris Imad al-Din, supreme leader of Tayyibi Isma'ilism, scholar and historian (b. 1392)[5]
- June 14 – Margaret Beauchamp, countess of Shrewsbury
- June 30 – Lady Eleanor Talbot, English noblewoman
- July 5 – Alfonso, Prince of Asturias (b. 1453)
- September 26 – Juan de Torquemada, Spanish Catholic cardinal (b. 1388)[6]
- October 7 – Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta, lord of Rimini (b. 1417)
- October 28 – Bianca Maria Visconti, Duchess of Milan (b. 1425)
- November 24 – Jean de Dunois, French soldier (b. 1402)
- December 6 – Zanobi Strozzi, Italian painter (b. 1412)
- date unknown
- Joanot Martorell, Spanish writer (b. 1419)[7]
- Francesco Squarcione, Italian artist (b. ca. 1395)
- Zara Yaqob, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1399)
- Pomellina Fregoso, Monegaque regent (b. 1388
- ^ Philippe de Commynes (1892). The Memoirs of Philip de Commines, Lord of Argenton: Containing the Histories of Louis XI, and Charles VIII. Kings of France and of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy. G. Bell and Sons. p. 130.
- ^ "Paul III | pope". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved April 22, 2019.
- ^ "John | elector of Saxony". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved October 20, 2020.
- ^ Philip B. Meggs (September 9, 1998). A History of Graphic Design. Wiley. p. 69. ISBN 978-0-471-29198-5.
- ^ Qutbuddin, Tahera (2018). "Idrīs ʿImād al-Dīn". In Fleet, Kate; Krämer, Gudrun; Matringe, Denis; Nawas, John; Rowson, Everett (eds.). Encyclopaedia of Islam (3rd ed.). Brill Online. doi:10.1163/1573-3912_ei3_COM_32368. ISSN 1873-9830.
- ^ Kenneth Meyer Setton (1976). The Papacy and the Levant, 1204-1571. American Philosophical Society. p. 282. ISBN 978-0-87169-127-9.
- ^ Mediaevalia. Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, State University of New York at Binghamton. 2000. p. 68.