Events

• July 26 - Battle of Edgecote Moor
• October 17 - Prince Ferdinand of Aragon wed princess Isabella of Castile. This event would lead to a unified Spain in 1516.
• Sigismund of Austria sells upper-Elsass (Alsace) to the Charles the Bold in exchange of aid in a war against the Swiss
• Uzun Hassa wins in Persia and defeats Abu Said
• Lorenzo de' Medici takes power in Florence
• Moctezuma I, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan dies and is succeeded by Axayacatl.
• James III of Scotland acquires Orkney and Shetland Islands from Denmark

Births

• May 3 - Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian historian and political author (d. 1527)
• May 30 - King Manuel I of Portugal
• Guru Nanak the founder of Sikhism

Deaths

• Piero di Cosimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (b. 1416)
• Moctezuma I, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan