1466

This article is about the year 1466.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1430s  1440s  1450s  – 1460s –  1470s  1480s  1490s
Years:	1463 1464 1465 – 1466 – 1467 1468 1469

1466 by topic
Arts and science
Architecture - Art
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State leaders - Sovereign states
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Births - Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments - Disestablishments
Art and literature
1466 in poetry

1466 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1466 MCDLXVI
Ab urbe condita	2219
Armenian calendar	915 ԹՎ ՋԺԵ
Assyrian calendar	6216
Bengali calendar	873
Berber calendar	2416
English Regnal year	5 Edw. 4 – 6 Edw. 4
Buddhist calendar	2010
Burmese calendar	828
Byzantine calendar	6974–6975
Chinese calendar	乙酉年 (Wood Rooster) 4162 or 4102     — to — 丙戌年 (Fire Dog) 4163 or 4103
Coptic calendar	1182–1183
Discordian calendar	2632
Ethiopian calendar	1458–1459
Hebrew calendar	5226–5227
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1522–1523
- Shaka Samvat	1388–1389
- Kali Yuga	4567–4568
Holocene calendar	11466
Igbo calendar	466–467
Iranian calendar	844–845
Islamic calendar	870–871
Japanese calendar	Kanshō 7 / Bunshō 1 (文正元年)
Julian calendar	1466 MCDLXVI
Korean calendar	3799
Minguo calendar	446 before ROC 民前446年
Thai solar calendar	2008–2009

Year 1466 (MCDLXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

• June – Second Siege of Krujë: Mehmed II leads an army of 150,000 in an attempt to quash the Albanian resistance by taking Krujë. The Albanians repulse him and the Ottoman army retreats from Albania.
• August 26 – A conspiracy against Piero di Cosimo de' Medici, led by Luca Pitti and Borso d'Este, is discovered and put down in Florence.
• October 18 – Erik Axelsson Tott replaces Jöns Bengtsson Oxenstierna as Regent of Sweden.
• October 19 – The Thirteen Years' War ends with the Second Peace of Thorn.

Date unknown

• The Chimú Empire is conquered by troops of the Inca.
• The Mentelin Bible, the first printed German language Bible, is produced.
• Louis XI of France introduces silk weaving to Lyon.
• Collapse of the Kingdom of Georgia into anarchy and its subsequent fragmentation into rival states of Kartli, Kakheti, Imereti, Samtskhe-Saatabago and a number of principalities, which is finalised in 1490 when Constantine II of Georgia has to recognize his rival monarchies.

• The 2nd largest bell of St. Peter's Church in Fritzlar was founded by Meister Goswin aus Fritzlar.

Births

• February 11 – Elizabeth of York, queen of Henry VII of England (d. 1503)
• June 18 – Ottaviano Petrucci, Italian music printer (d. 1539)
• August 10 – Francesco II Gonzaga, Marquess of Mantua (d. 1519)
• September 9 – Ashikaga Yoshitane, Japanese shogun (d. 1523)
• October 27 – Erasmus, Dutch philosopher (d. 1536)
• November 30 – Andrea Doria, Italian naval leader (d. 1560)
• probable
  • Moctezuma II, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlán (d. 1520)
  • Alonso de Ojeda, Spanish conquistador and explorer (d. 1515 )

Deaths

• March 8 – Francesco I Sforza, Duke of Milan (b. 1401)
• August – Hacı I Giray, first ruler of the Crimean Khanate
• October 30 – Johann Fust, German printer (b. c. 1400)
• December 13 – Donatello, Italian artist (b. 1386)
• date unknown
  • Benedetto Accolti, Italian jurist and historian (b. 1415)
  • Barbara Manfredi, Italian noblewoman
  • Nicolaus Zacharie, composer