1466

Template:Use mdy dates Template:About year Template:More citations needed Template:Year nav Template:C15 year in topicYear 1466 (MCDLXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar.

Events

• The Kingdom of Georgia collapses into anarchy, and fragments into rival states of Kartli, Kakheti, Imereti, Samtskhe-Saatabago and a number of principalities; this breakup is finalised in 1490, when Constantine II of Georgia has to recognize his rival monarchies.
• The Mentelin Bible, the first printed German language Bible, is produced.
• Louis XI of France introduces silk weaving to Lyon.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• The first known shop specialising in eyeglasses opens in Strasbourg.
• The second largest bell of Saint Peter's Church, Fritzlar, in Hesse, is cast by Meister Goswin aus Fritzlar.

Births

• February 11 – Elizabeth of York, queen of Henry VII of England (d. 1503)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• May – Elisabeth of Hesse-Marburg, German landgravine (d. 1523)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• May 22 – Marino Sanuto the Younger, Italian historian (d. 1536)
• June 18 – Ottaviano Petrucci, Italian music printer (d. 1539)
• July 5 – Giovanni Sforza, Italian noble (d. 1510)
• August 10 – Francesco II Gonzaga, Marquess of Mantua (d. 1519)
• September 9 – Ashikaga Yoshitane, Japanese shōgun (d. 1523)
• October 28 – Erasmus, Dutch philosopher (d. 1536)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• November 16 – Francesco Cattani da Diacceto, Florentine philosopher (d. 1522)
• November 26 – Edward Hastings, 2nd Baron Hastings, English noble (d. 1506)
• November 30 – Andrea Doria, Genoese condottiero and admiral (d. 1560)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• Probable – Moctezuma II, Aztec Tlatoani (ruler) of Tenochtitlán (modern Mexico City), 1502–1520, son of Axayacatl (d. 1520)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Deaths

• February 23 – Girishawardhana Dyah Suryawikrama, 9th Maharaja of Majapahit
• March 6 – Alvise Loredan, Venetian admiral and statesman (b. 1393)
• March 8 – Francesco I Sforza, Duke of Milan (b. 1401)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• August – Hacı I Giray, first ruler of the Crimean Khanate (b. 1397)
• October 30 – Johann Fust, German printer (b. c. 1400)
• December 13 – Donatello, Italian artist (b. 1386)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Barbara Manfredi, Italian noblewoman (b. 1444)
  • Isotta Nogarola, Italian writer and intellectual (b. 1418)<ref>Tom Streissguth, The Greenhaven Encyclopedia of the Renaissance (Farmington Hills, Michigan: Greenhaven Press, 2008), pp. 229–30.</ref>
  • Nicolaus Zacharie, Italian composer (b. c. 1400)