Battle of Otlukbeli
Mehmed II crushes Uzun Hasan and his Venetian allies
Uzun Hasan of the Aq Qoyunlu allied with Venice against the Ottomans, but on 11 August 1473 his cavalry was shot down by Ottoman cannon and janissaries. Eastern Anatolia stayed Ottoman, and the Aq Qoyunlu began to decline.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- c. 1450 Gutenberg's printing press — 23 years earlier
- 1455–1487 Wars of the Roses — 18 years earlier
- 1469 Marriage of Ferdinand and Isabella — 4 years earlier
- 1478 Spanish Inquisition established — 5 years later
- 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas — 21 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- c. 1469 Afanasy Nikitin's journey to India — 4 years earlier
- 1478 Annexation of Novgorod by Moscow — 5 years later
- 1480 Great Stand on the Ugra River — 7 years later
Africa
- 1488 Dias rounds the Cape of Good Hope — 15 years later
Asia
- 1449 Tumu Crisis — 24 years earlier
- 1467–1477 Ōnin War — 6 years earlier
- 1498 Vasco da Gama reaches India — 25 years later
Americas
- c. 1450 Building of Machu Picchu — 23 years earlier
- c. 1450 Founding of the Iroquois Confederacy — 23 years earlier
- 1492 Columbus reaches the Americas — 19 years later
- 1497 John Cabot reaches North America — 24 years later
Alive at the time
- Mehmed II (aged 41)
- Christopher Columbus (aged 22)
- Leonardo da Vinci (aged 21)
- Nicolaus Copernicus (aged 0)
- Louis XI (aged 50)
- Ashikaga Yoshimasa (aged 37)
- Ivan III (aged 33)
- Isabella I of Castile (aged 22)
- Richard III (aged 21)
- Amerigo Vespucci (aged 19)