Editing 1486 (section)

=== January&ndash;December ===
* [[January 18]] &ndash; King [[Henry VII of England]] and [[Elizabeth of York]] are married, uniting the [[House of Lancaster]] and the [[House of York]], after the [[Wars of the Roses]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Iain Fenlon|title=Early Music History: Volume 19: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Music|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Cvm8DVwnPYgC&pg=PA267|date=19 April 2001|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-79073-4|pages=267}}</ref>
* [[February 16]] &ndash; Archduke [[Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor|Maximilian I of Habsburg]] is elected [[King of the Romans]] at [[Frankfurt am Main|Frankfurt]] (crowned [[April 9]] at [[Aachen]]).
* [[February 18]] &ndash; Lord [[Chaitanya Mahaprabhu]] is born in the town of Nadia, West Bengal, India, just after sunset.  He is regarded as an incarnation, or avatar, of Lord Krsna, and later comes to inaugurate the sankirtana movement, or the chanting of the Holy Names of the Lord.  This chanting, or mantra meditation, is first brought to the [[United States]] in [[1965]], by [[A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada]].<ref>"Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu: His Life and Precepts" by Srila Bhaktivinode Thakura August 20, 1896</ref>
* [[April 21]] &ndash; The adoption of the ''Sentència Arbitral de Guadalupe'' ends the [[War of the Remences]], in the [[Principality of Catalonia]].