Đại Việt takes Vijaya
The blow from which Champa never recovered
In retaliation for Cham raids, Emperor Lê Thánh Tông took the Cham capital of Vijaya, killing or capturing tens of thousands. Northern Champa was annexed to Đại Việt, and only small southern principalities remained of the kingdom.
Wikipedia (English) · 15th century
Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- c. 1450 Gutenberg's printing press — 21 years earlier
- 1455–1487 Wars of the Roses — 16 years earlier
- 1469 Marriage of Ferdinand and Isabella — 2 years earlier
- 1478 Spanish Inquisition established — 7 years later
- 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas — 23 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- c. 1469 Afanasy Nikitin's journey to India — 2 years earlier
- 1478 Annexation of Novgorod by Moscow — 7 years later
- 1480 Great Stand on the Ugra River — 9 years later
Middle East
- 1453 Fall of Constantinople — 18 years earlier
Africa
- 1488 Dias rounds the Cape of Good Hope — 17 years later
Americas
- c. 1450 Building of Machu Picchu — 21 years earlier
- c. 1450 Founding of the Iroquois Confederacy — 21 years earlier
- 1492 Columbus reaches the Americas — 21 years later
Alive at the time
- Mehmed II (aged 39)
- Christopher Columbus (aged 20)
- Leonardo da Vinci (aged 19)
- Pachacuti (aged 53)
- Louis XI (aged 48)
- Ashikaga Yoshimasa (aged 35)
- Ivan III (aged 31)
- Isabella I of Castile (aged 20)
- Richard III (aged 19)
- Amerigo Vespucci (aged 17)