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October 29 - Battle of Brusthem: Charles the Bold defeats Liege

Beginning of the Sengoku Period in Japan.

Circa this year, polyalphabetic cipher invented by Leone Battista Alberti.

Regent of Sweden Erik Axelsson Tott supports the re-election of deposed Charles VIII of Sweden to the throne.

Pope Paul II arrested and tortured some of the abbreviators, among them was Filip Callimachus.

King Matthias Corvinus founded the first university in Slovakia, the Universitas Istropolitana in Bratislava.

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John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners, English translator (died 1553)

Guillaume Budé, French scholar (died 1540)

John Colet, English churchman and educational pioneer (died 1519)

Sigismund I of Poland (died 1548)

Krzysztof Szydlowiecki, Polish nobleman (died 1532)

John Yonge, English ecclesiastic and diplomatist (died 1516)

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Jöns Bengtsson, Archbishop of Sweden (born 1417)

June 15 - Philip III, Duke of Burgundy (born 1396)

Xalil, Khan of Kazan

Ponhea Yat, ruler of the Khmer Empire (born 1421)