1462

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1462 () was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events
The most violent stage of the Remensas War in Catalonia begins.
The Catalan Civil War begins (1462-1472).
The General of Catalonia offers the title of Prince of Catalonia to Henry IV of Castilla.
Definitive Spanish conquest of Gibraltar.
The Portuguese Pedro Da Cintra reaches the coast of Sierra Leone, to which he gives his current name.
The presence of Gypsies in Andalusia (Jaén) is first documented.
The Ottomans conquer the island of Lesbos, in the Aegean Sea.
John II of Aragon cedes the Rosellon and the Cerdaña to France in exchange for military aid.
It fails the Turkish invasion of Valacia thanks to the land policy of Vlad Draculea.
Ivan III of Russia is crowned.
The first Saving Organization was formed and called "PITY MONTE."
Pope Pius II declares slavery a great crime.
June 17 - Battle of Targovas (Ottoman-Hungarian Wars): Vlad Tepes, also known as Vlad Draculea, prince of Valacia, is defeated by the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II.

Art and literature
Leonardo da Vinci is first named together with several Florentine painters from Saint Jesus.

Births

March - Juana la Beltraneja, Spanish princess.
27 June - Louis XII of France.
September 16 - Pietro Pomponazzi, Italian philosopher.
Juan de Anchieta, Spanish composer.

Deaths

26 February: John de Vere, XII Earl of Oxford, English nobleman (b. 1408).
Carlos, Prince of Viana.
Heinrich Rubenow, mayor of Greifswald.
Anne de Lusignan, daughter of Jano of Cyprus.

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