1462 Vlad III national hero of Romania
Events
- 1461: The city of Sarajevo is founded by the Ottomans.
- 1462: Sonni Ali Ber, the ruler of the Songhai (or Songhay) Empire, along the Niger River, conquers Mali in the central Sudan by defeating the Tuareg contingent at Tombouctou (or Timbuktu) and capturing the city. He develops both his own capital, Gao, and the main centres of Mali, Timbuktu and Djenné, into major cities. Ali Ber controls trade along the Niger River with a navy of war vessels.
- 1462: Mehmed the Conqueror is driven back by Wallachian prince Vlad III Dracula at The Night Attack.
- 1467–1615: The Sengoku period is one of civil war in Japan.
- 1469: The marriage of Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile leads to the unification of Spain.
- 1469: Reign of Axayacatl begins in the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan as the sixth tlatoani and emperor of the Aztec Triple Alliance.
Music
- Robert Morton writes the first known setting of L’homme armé
Art
- c.1450s–1466: Piero della Francesca – The History of the True Cross (San Francesco, Arezzo)
- 1455–1460: Francesco del Cossa – Polyhymnia
- c.1455–1460: Giovanni Bellini
- c.1457–1460: Piero della Francesca – Madonna del Parto (Monterchi)
- 1459–1461: Benozzo Gozzoli – Journey of the Magi to Bethlehem frescoes in Magi Chapel, Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Florence
- c.1459–1465: Giovanni Bellini – Agony in the Garden
- 1459–1466: Andrea Mantegna – Portrait of Carlo de’ Medici
- c.1460s: Antonello da Messina – Salting Madonna
- 1460: Andrea Mantegna – St. Bernardino of Siena between Two Angels
- c.1460: Giovanni Bellini
- c.1460: Dieric Bouts
- c.1460: Rogier van der Weyden
- c.1460–1462: Piero della Francesca – Madonna della Misericordia (Sansepolcro)
- c.1460–1463: Rogier van der Weyden – The Lamentation of Christ
- c.1460–1464: Rogier van der Weyden – Medici Madonna
- c.1460–1470: Andrea Mantegna – Portrait of a Man
- c.1461: Andrea Mantegna – Portrait of Francesco Gonzaga
- 1462
- Andrea Mantegna – Adoration of the Magi
- Dieric Bouts – Portrait of a Man
- 1462–1465: Caspar Isenmann – high altar of St Martin’s Church, Colmar
- c.1462–1464: Andrea Mantegna – Death of the Virgin
- c.1462–1475: Jaume Huguet and Pau Vergós – The Consecration of Saint Augustine
- 1463: Bernt Notke – Danse Macabre
- 1463–1465: Piero della Francesca – The Resurrection
- c.1464–1467: Dieric Bouts – The Last Supper (centre of altarpiece, St. Peter’s Church, Leuven)
- c.1464–1468: Giovanni Bellini – Polyptych of S. Vincenzo Ferreri
- 1465 or c.1465
- c.1465–1467: Sandro Botticelli – Virgin and Child with an Angel
- c.1465–1470: Giovanni Bellini – The Head of St John the Baptist
- c.1466: Andrea Mantegna – Portrait of Carlo de’ Medici (Uffizi)
- c.1466–1469: Filippo Lippi – Madonna of Palazzo Medici-Riccardi
- c.1467: Sandro Botticelli
- c.1467–1469: Andrea del Verrocchio – Madonna of the Milk
- 1467–1470: Hans Memling
- c.1468–1469: Sandro Botticelli – Madonna and Child and Two Angels
- 1469: Cosmè Tura – St George and the Princess
- c.1469: Sandro Botticelli – Portrait of a Young Man (Lorenzo il Popolano)
- c.1469–1470
- Sandro Botticelli – Madonna in Glory with Seraphim
- Petrus Christus – Portrait of a Young Woman
- Francesco del Cossa and Cosmè Tura – allegorical frescoes with details in tempera at Palazzo Schifanoia in Ferrara