1470s

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1440s 1450s 1460s – 1470s – 1480s 1490s 1500s
Years:	1470 1471 1472 1473 1474 1475 1476 1477 1478 1479
Categories:	Births – Deaths – Architecture Establishments – Disestablishments

The 1470s decade ran from January 1, 1470, to December 31, 1479.

Events and trends

Battle of Negropont Venetian fleet failed to relieve the colony of Negropont, which was under Turkish attack
March 12 – Battle of Lose-coat Field (Wars of the Roses): Yorkists chased disrobing Lancastrians from the field.
August 20 – Battle of Lipnic; Ştefan cel Mare defeated the Tatars.
Around this date, the Tu'i Tonga dynasty lost temporal power over Tonga and the remnants of the Tongan Empire, after almost six centuries of rule. The Tu'i Ha'atakalaua dynasty ascended in its place.

14 April – Battle of Barnet: Yorkist victory, Warwick the Kingmaker was killed.
4 May – Battle of Tewkesbury – Edward IV of England's final victory over the House of Lancaster.
October 10 – The Battle of Brunkeberg occurred between Denmark and Sweden.

May 31 – Treaty of Prenzlau was made between Albert III, Elector of Brandenburg and the rulers of Pomerania.

January 10 – Battle of Vaslui – Ştefan cel Mare defeated a huge Ottoman army.
August 29 – Treaty of Picquigny – Louis XI paid Edward IV to stay in England and relinquish his claim on the French throne.
November – Battle on the Planta (Burgundy Wars)
The Second Castilian Civil War began.

January 20 – Ferdinand II took the throne of Aragon. Ferdinand and his wife, Isabella, the Queen of Castile, now ruled over most of the Iberian peninsula.
January 25 – The Treaty of Constantinople officially ended the fifteen year war between Venice and the Ottoman Empire.
The Peace of Olomouc concluded the war between King Ladislaus II and Matthias Corvinus.
September 4 – The Treaty of Alcáçovas between Castile and Portugal ended the Second Castilian Civil War, which had begun in 1475.
October – The Battle of Câmpia Pâinii occurred, in which the Kingdom of Hungary defeated the Ottoman Empire and Wallachia.

A map of Europe in the 1470s.