March 2 » Skanderbeg organizes a group of Albanian nobles to form the League of Lezhë.
June 29 » Skanderbeg defeats an Ottoman invasion force at Torvioll.
August 26 » Battle of St. Jakob an der Birs: A vastly outnumbered force of Swiss Confederates is defeated by the Dauphin Louis (future Louis XI of France) and his army of 'Armagnacs' near Basel.
November 10 » Battle of Varna: The crusading forces of King Władysław III of Poland (aka Ulaszlo I of Hungary and Władysław III of Varna) are defeated by the Turks under Sultan Murad II and Władysław is killed.
January 5 » Battle of Nancy: Charles the Bold is defeated and killed in a conflict with René II, Duke of Lorraine; the Burgundy subsequently becomes part of France.
October 7 » Uppsala University is inaugurated after receiving its corporate rights from Pope Sixtus IV in February the same year.
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