* 1462 – Vlad III the Impaler attempts to assassinate Mehmed II ( The Night Attack ) forcing him to retreat from Wallachia.

The response was a massive invasion led by Mehmed II who drove Vlad III from the throne and replaced him with his brother, Radu III the Fair ( 1462 – 1475 ).

In response to this, Sultan Mehmed II raised an army of around 60, 000 troops and 30, 000 irregulars, and in spring of 1462 headed towards Wallachia.

In 1462, Mehmed II was driven back by Wallachian prince Vlad III Dracula at The Night Attack.

* 1462 – Treaty of Westminster is finalised between Edward IV of England and the Scottish Lord of the Isles.

The minor planet 1462 Zamenhof is named in his honor.

In 1462 Portuguese explorer Pedro da Cintra mapped the hills surrounding what is now Freetown Harbour, naming the oddly shaped formation Serra Lyoa ( Lion Mountains ).

* 1462 – The Battle of Świecino ( also known as the Battle of Żarnowiec ) is fought during Thirteen Years ' War.

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An even earlier example of a puppet state ( as well as a vassal state ) is Wallachia, which was partially de facto ruled by the Ottoman Empire from 1462 when Radu the Handsome was placed on the throne after his older brother Vlad III was banished from Wallachia and interned by Hungary.

Damon is unincorporated, but has one " Damon City Limit " sign heading south on State Highway 36 from FM 1462, which usually only incorporated communities have.

* Average SAT score: 1628 ( the state average is 1462 and the national average is 1509 )

It is knot number 1462 in the Ashley Book of Knots.

Cape Verde is an island archipelago that was uninhabited until the Portuguese arrived in 1462.

And the identification is confirmed by the fact that in the now destroyed church of the Guillemins was a tombstone of Mandeville, with a Latin inscription stating that he was otherwise named " ad Barbam ", was a professor of medicine, and died at Liège on November 17, 1372: this inscription is quoted as far back as 1462.

The letter is dated November 8, 1462.

The earliest found unconfirmed reference to him occurs in September 1462 when a man of his name with license to teach is on record as having taken a post in the recently founded University of Glasgow.

The date at which Christopher Plunkett became a peer, and an hereditary member of the Irish Parliament, is uncertain ; according to Cokayne's Complete Peerage, there is no record of a Dunsany as a peer before 1489, and the creation may well have been as late as 1462, the year Sir Christopher died.

Zvenigorod is primarily remembered for internecine wars waged by Yuri's sons for control of Moscow during the reign of their cousin Vasily II ( 1425 – 1462 ).

Count Martino Zrinski or Sdrigna, was born in 1462 and was the son of Count Peter II and brother of Nikola III, father of Nikola IV, the one who is referred to in history as Nikola the Great Zrinski of Siget ( Szigetvár in Hungarian ).

Świecino is famous for a battle fought in 1462 between the Polish forces and the Teutonic Knights.

The exact length of Vlad's period of captivity is open to some debate, though indications are that it was from 1462 until 1474.

Another hypothesis, supported by Pope Pius II in his commentary ( 1462 ), is that the name results from Gandulphi Sabinorum, from a certain Gandolfo Savelli.

He gave allegiance to the King of France in 1462, and is thereby presumed to have forfeited his English peerage.

An early reference to the pocket watch is in a letter in November 1462 from the Italian clockmaker Bartholomew Manfredi to the Marchese di Mantova Federico Gonzaga, where he offers him a " pocket clock " better than that belonging to the Duke of Modena.

In 1462, Stephen sent a letter to his cousin, Prince Vlad III Dracula of Wallachia, asking him to return Chilia back to Moldavia — a demand that was most likely refused.

Such references to the name Shay have been traced as far back as 1462, when on 6 July of that year a wealthy local man by the name of William Brodley recorded that upon his death, property belonging to him just west of Shaghe Lane should pass to his son, John Brodley.

And the identification is confirmed by the fact that in the now destroyed church of the Guillemins was a tombstone of Mandeville, with a Latin inscription stating that he was otherwise named " ad Barbam ", was a professor of medicine, and died at Liège on November 17, 1372: this inscription is quoted as far back as 1462.

In 1462, during a conflict between two archbishops, Mainz was sacked by archbishop Adolph von Nassau, and Gutenberg was exiled.

Some claim it was a Tatar invention and was introduced into Russia in the 15th century, perhaps by Grand Duke Ivan III the Great ( 1462 – 1505 ).

In September 1462, he confirmed the Diocese of Laibach, established in December 1462 by Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor.

* 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.

Muscovy was then ruled by the Muscovite monarchy, starting with Ivan III ( 1462 – 1505 ), who expanded Muscovy, and ending with Ivan IV, who claimed the title " Tsar of Russia ".

This was confirmed by a Bull of Pope Pius II, 10 September 1462.

The second period was when the castle, then in need of repair, was converted into a manor in 1462 by Geoffrey Boleyn.

It was captured by the Turks in 1462.

In the fifteenth century, the ruined castle of Ussé was purchased by Jean V de Bueil, a captain-general of Charles VII who became seigneur of Ussé in 1431 and began rebuilding it in the 1440s ; his son Antoine de Bueil married in 1462 Jeanne de Valois, the natural daughter of Charles VII and Agnès Sorel, who brought as dowry 40000 golden écus.

In 1462 Cottbus was acquired by the Margraviate of Brandenburg ; in 1701 the city became part of the Kingdom of Prussia.

* Eighth Siege of Gibraltar ( 1462 ) – Siege of Gibraltar, by a Castilian army in the Reconquista

Alnwick was one of three castles held by Lancastrian forces in 1461 and 1462, and it was there that the " only practical defence of a private castle " was made according to military historian D. J. Cathcart King.

Re-captured by Sir William Tailboys during the winter he surrendered to Hastings, Sir John Howard and Sir Ralph Grey of Heton in late July 1462.

Vasily II Vasiliyevich Tyomniy ( Blind ) ( Василий II Васильевич Тёмный in Russian ) ( 10 March 1415 – 27 March 1462, Moscow ) was the Grand Prince of Moscow whose long reign ( 1425 – 1462 ) was plagued by the greatest civil war of Old Russian history.

In 1462 Cosimo gave Ficino a villa at Careggi for the Academy's use, situated where Cosimo could see it from his own villa, and drop by for visits.

* Facade of the Basilica di Sant ' Andrea di Mantova ( 1462 ) by Leon Battista Alberti

The main seat of the family, at canto Pazzi, where Borgo degli Albizi crosses the via del Proconsolo was rebuilt 1462 – 72 for Jacopo de ' Pazzi to designs by Giuliano da Maiano, the sculptor-architect favored by the family.

The ambitious John MacDonald II, fourth Lord of the Isles, made a secret treaty in 1462 with King Edward IV of England, by which he sought to make himself an independent ruler.

King Albert was succeeded by his posthumously born son Ladislaus, during whose reign Bohemia was divided into two parties: the party faithful to Rome, led by Oldřich of Rosenberg ( 1403 – 1462 ), and the Hussite party, led by George.