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Year 1463 ( MCDLXIII ) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar , the 1463rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 463rd year of the 2nd millennium , the 63rd year of the 15th century , and the 4th year of the 1460s decade.

Events [ edit ]

January–December [ edit ]

• January 5 – French poet Francois Villon receives a reprieve from death by hanging, and is banished from Paris (his further life is undocumented).
• May – The Kingdom of Bosnia falls to the Ottoman Empire .
• September 15 – Battle of Vistula Lagoon : The navy of the Prussian Confederation defeats that of the Teutonic Order .
• October 8 – The Truce of Hesdin ends French support for the House of Lancaster in England . ^[1]

Date unknown [ edit ]

• Muhammad Rumfa starts to rule in Kano .
• Corpus Hermeticum is translated into Latin , by Marsilio Ficino .

Births [ edit ]

• January 17
  • Antoine Duprat , French cardinal (d. 1535 )
  • Frederick III, Elector of Saxony (d. 1525 )
• February 24 – Giovanni Pico della Mirandola , Italian philosopher (d. 1494 ) ^[2]
• June 14 – Henry IV, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg , German noble (d. 1514 )
• August 4 – Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici , Florentine patron of the arts (d. 1503 )
• September 29 – Louis I, Count of Lowenstein and founder of the House of Lowenstein-Wertheim (d. 1523 )
• October 20 or October 29 – Alessandro Achillini , Bolognese philosopher (d. 1512 ) ^[3]
• November 29 – Andrea della Valle , Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1534 )
• December 25 – Johann of Schwarzenberg , German judge and poet (d. 1528 )
• date unknown – Caterina Sforza , countess and regent of Forli (d. 1509 ) ^[4]

Deaths [ edit ]

• March 9 – Catherine of Bologna , Italian Roman Catholic nun and saint (b. 1413 ) ^[5]
• May 25 – King Stephen Toma?evi? of Bosnia (beheaded)
• June 4 – Flavio Biondo , Italian humanist (b. 1392 )
• June 17 – Infanta Catherine of Portugal , religious sister (b. 1436 )
• September 23 – Giovanni di Cosimo de' Medici , Italian noble (b. 1421 )
• November 1 – Emperor David of Trebizond (b. c. 1408 )
• November 15 – Giovanni Antonio Del Balzo Orsini , Prince of Taranto and Constable of Naples (b. 1393 )
• November 18 – John IV, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1437 )
• November 29 – Marie of Anjou , queen of France, spouse of Charles VII of France (b. 1404 ) ^[6]
• December 2 – Albert VI, Archduke of Austria (b. 1418 )
• December 16 – Sir Philip Courtenay , British noble (b. 1404 )
• date unknown
  • Jacob Gaon , Jewish Basque tax collector (beheaded by the mob)
  • Ponhea Yat , last king of the Khmer Empire and first king of Cambodia (b. 1394 )

References [ edit ]