1468

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The year 1468 is a leap year that begins on a Friday.

Events

29 or 30 January: the king of Songhai Sonni Ali Ber hunts the Tuareg of Timbuktu. He seized the city with the complicity of his governor and killed most of its inhabitants. After being well established in the city, Sonni Ali began the conquest of Macina and Upper Niger.
31 January: The reign of the Mamluk Sultan of Egypt began following a coup d'état (end in 1496). In Northern Syria, he must suppress the revolt of the dulqadiride Turkish emir Shah Suwâr, supported by the Ottomans, in three difficult campaigns (1468-1472).
Spring: Ottoman vizier Mahmud Pacha Angelović occupies Karamania. Part of the population of Larende and Konya is deported to repopulate Istanbul.
July 10: King of Cyprus James II of Lusignan married Catherine Corner, a Venetian, by proxy. The Republic of Venice has specified in the marriage contract that if the king died without an heir, Cyprus would become the possession of Venice.
July: The Ottoman vizir Mahmud Pacha Angelović was disgracized on his return from Karamania by Sultan Mehmet II following the intrigues of Rum Mehmed Pasha, the second vizir, and then recalled in 1472.
August 26: The reign of Baida-Maryam, king of Ethiopia (end in 1478).

Taking and destruction of Anafé or Anfa in Morocco (now Casablanca) by an expeditionary force of 50 ships and men sent by King Alphonse V of Portugal.

Europe
17 January: the death of Skanderbeg (1405-1468) after twenty years of heroic resistance to the Ottomans opened the gates of Albania in Mehmet II.
5 February: Lord Deputy of Ireland Thomas Fitzgerald, Count of Desmond is beheaded for treason in Drogheda. The beginning of Ireland's domination by the Kildare Fitzgeralds (finally in 1534).
31 March: Mathias Corvin declares war on Bohemia (1468-1479). He took the title of king of Bohemia in 1469 but before the resolution of the Czechs and their king Georges of Poděbrady, he could only establish his authority over Moravia and Silesia.

6 - 14 April, France: Meeting of the General States in Tours, by Louis XI, who obtained a condemnation from the Ligue du Bien publique. The states affirm the inalienability of Normandy, which belongs to the crown. They act out of monarchy loyalism but also out of solidarity with taxpayers, the creation of a Norman apanage having meant a loss of profits for the treasury.

July 3: marriage to Bruges of Charles the Temerary, Duke of Burgundy, and Marguerite of York (1446-1503), sister of King Edward IV of England.
July 23 : breakup of Hanse with England. Edward IV of England had all Hanse traders in England arrested and asked them for a pound sterling allowance (November). He declared war on the cities of Hanse in response to their claims on the monopoly of trade towards Scandinavia