May 18 » Alonso de Ojeda sets sail from Cádiz on his voyage to what is now Venezuela.
July 10 » The Portuguese explorer Nicolau Coelho returns to Lisbon after discovering the sea route to India as a companion of Vasco da Gama.
July 22 » Battle of Dornach: The Swiss decisively defeat the army of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor.
September 22 » The Treaty of Basel concludes the Swabian War.
November 5 » Publication of the Catholicon, written in 1464 by Jehan Lagadeuc in Tréguier; this is the first Breton dictionary as well as the first French dictionary.
December 18 » A rebellion breaks out in Alpujarras in response to the forced conversions of Muslims in Spain.
January 7 » French troops, led by Francis, Duke of Guise, take Calais, the last continental possession of England.
April 24 » Mary, Queen of Scots, marries the Dauphin of France, François, at Notre Dame de Paris.
July 13 » Battle of Gravelines: In France, Spanish forces led by Count Lamoral of Egmont defeat the French forces of Marshal Paul de Thermes at Gravelines.
October 17 » Poczta Polska, the Polish postal service, is founded.
November 17 » Elizabethan era begins: Queen Mary I of England dies and is succeeded by her half-sister Elizabeth I of England.
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