May 15 –
Battle of Hexham: Neville defeats another Lancastrian army, this one led by King
Henry and
Queen Margaret themselves. This marks the end of organized Lancastrian resistance for several years.[2]
June 18 –
Pope Pius II himself shoulders the cross of the
Crusades, and departs for
Ancona to participate in person. He names
Skanderbeg general captain of the
Holy See, under the title
Athleta Christi. This plan forces Skanderbeg to break his ten-year peace treaty with the
Ottomans signed in
1463, by attacking their forces near
Ohrid.
In
China, a small rebellion occurs in the interior province of
Huguang, during the
Ming Dynasty; a subsequent rebellion springs up in
Guangxi, where a rebellion of the
Miao people and
Yao people forces the Ming throne to respond, by sending 30,000 troops (including 1,000
Mongol cavalry) to aid the 160,000 local troops stationed in the region, to crush the rebellion that will end in
1466.[4][5]
Jehan Lagadeuc writes a Breton-French-Latin dictionary called the Catholicon. It is the first French dictionary as well as the first Breton dictionary of world history, and it will be published in
1499.