1462

Events

• Settlers from Portugal begin to settle the Cape Verde islands.
• March 28 - Death of Vasili II of Russia. Succeeded by his son Ivan III of Russia.
• September 17 - Battle of Swiecin, called also Battle of Zarnowiec, during Thirteen Years' War
• Winter - Vlad III Dracula, reigning Prince of Wallachia is deposed by the forces of Sultan Mehmed II of the Ottoman Empire and replaced by his younger brother Radu the Handsome.

Births

• June 27 - King Louis XII of France (d. 1515)
• 1 February - Johannes Trithemius, scholar and cryptographer

Deaths

• May 8 - Palla Strozzi, founder of the first public library in Florence

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