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The French dukes of Alençon, Burgundy, Berri, Bourbon, and Lorraine defeat Louis XI July 16 at the Battle of Montlhéry and force him to sign the Treaty of Conflans that restores Normandy to the duc de Berri and restores towns on the Somme to Burgundy. The king's seneschal Pierre de Brézé is killed in the fighting at age 55 (approximate) and succeeded as seneschal by his eldest son Jacques, 25; Louis begins immediately to evade the treaty and split the League of the Public Weal by means of diplomacy.
Walachia's Radu the Handsome decides October 14 to establish one of his royal residences at Bucharest (see 1459).
Printer Johann Fust produces an edition of Cicero's De oficiis; it is the first classical text ever printed from movable type.
Painting: Duke of Urbino by Italian painter-mathematician Piero della Francesca (Pietro di Benedetto di Franceschi), now 45, who portrays his patron Federico da Montefeltro, 43, a mercenary who has brought artists and scholars to the city that his family has ruled since 1234 but who will not actually be named duke (by Pope Sixtus IV) until 1474. Della Francesca has brought his mathematical skills to bear on the study of linear perspective.
England's Yorkist king Edward IV forbids the "hustling of stones" and other sports related to bowling and curling (see 1457; cricket, 1477).
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