Ōnin War
Ten years of fighting in Kyoto open the Warring States era
A dispute between the Hosokawa and Yamana clans over the Ashikaga succession grew into a war that burned much of Kyoto. The shogunate's authority collapsed, and Japan split for a century into the domains of rival daimyō: the Sengoku period.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- c. 1450 Gutenberg's printing press — 17 years earlier
- 1453 Battle of Castillon — 14 years earlier
- 1455–1487 Wars of the Roses — 12 years earlier
- 1469 Marriage of Ferdinand and Isabella — 2 years later
- 1478 Spanish Inquisition established — 11 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- c. 1469 Afanasy Nikitin's journey to India — 2 years later
- 1478 Annexation of Novgorod by Moscow — 11 years later
- 1480 Great Stand on the Ugra River — 13 years later
Middle East
- 1453 Fall of Constantinople — 14 years earlier
Africa
- 1488 Dias rounds the Cape of Good Hope — 21 years later
Americas
- c. 1450 Building of Machu Picchu — 17 years earlier
- c. 1450 Founding of the Iroquois Confederacy — 17 years earlier
- 1492 Columbus reaches the Americas — 25 years later
Oceania
- c. 1445 Extinction of the moa — 22 years earlier
Alive at the time
- Johannes Gutenberg (aged 67)
- Mehmed II (aged 35)
- Christopher Columbus (aged 16)
- Leonardo da Vinci (aged 15)
- Pachacuti (aged 49)
- Louis XI (aged 44)
- Ashikaga Yoshimasa (aged 31)
- Ivan III (aged 27)
- Isabella I of Castile (aged 16)
- Richard III (aged 15)