* Principality and Duchy of Anhalt-Bernburg: 1252 – 1468 and 1603 – 1863

# Katharina ( b. Meissen, 24 July 1468 – d. Göttingen, 10 February 1524 ), married firstly on 24 February 1484 in Innsbruck to Duke Sigismund of Austria, and secondly on 1497 to Duke Eric I of Brunswick-Calenberg.

* 1468 – Johann Werner, German mathematician ( d. 1522 )

The name of a settlement was recorded after St. Adalbert's death in 997 AD as urbs Gyddanyzc and later was written as Kdanzk ( 1148 ), Gdanzc ( 1188 ), Danceke ( 1228 ), Gdansk ( 1236, 1454, 1468, 1484, 1590 ), Danzc ( 1263 ), Danczk ( 1311, 1399, 1410, 1414 – 1438 ), Danczik ( 1399, 1410, 1414 ), Danczig ( 1414 ), Gdąnsk ( 1636 ).

File: Gutenberg. jpg | Johannes Gutenberg ( c. 1398 – 1468 )

Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg ( ; 1398 – February 3, 1468 ) was a German blacksmith, goldsmith, printer, and publisher who introduced printing to Europe.

* 1468 – Juan del Encina, Spanish composer, poet, and playwright ( d. 1530 )

* 1405 – Skanderbeg, Albanian lord ( d. 1468 )

* 1425 – Bianca Maria Visconti, Duchess of Milan ( d. 1468 )

* 1468 – Liège is sacked by Charles I of Burgundy's troops.

* 1402 – Jean de Dunois, French soldier ( d. 1468 )

* Miracle of the Profaned Host ( 1467 – 1468 ) -

* George Kastrioti, Skenderbeg – Albanian Prince who resisted the Ottomans for almost 30 years ( 1443 – 1468 ).

* Johannes Gutenberg, European inventor of printing with movable type ( – 1468 )

* Mir Chakar Khan Rind ( 1468 – 1565 ), a Baloch king.

* Johannes Gutenberg ( – 1468 ) was a German goldsmith and printer who is credited with inventing movable type printing in Europe around 1439, and mechanical printing globally.

* November 23 – Jean de Dunois, French soldier ( d. 1468 )

* January 17 – George Kastrioti of Albania ( d. 1468 )

* May 6 – George Kastrioti, better known as Skanderbeg, Albanian national hero ( d. 1468 ) ( probable date )

* June 3 – Juan de Zumárraga, Spanish Catholic bishop of Mexico ( b. 1468 )

* November 10 – Pope Paul III ( b. 1468 )

* August 16 – John, Elector of Saxony ( b. 1468 )

Seven hundred is precisely the number of people which Kaiser Friedrich III brought with him when he entered Rome in 1468, to show the Pope who the most powerful man in the world was ".

However, in February 1468, Platina was again imprisoned on the charge of having participated in a conspiracy against the Pope, and was tortured along with other abbreviators, such as Filip Callimachus, who fled to Poland in 1478, all of whom had been accused of pagan views.

Pope Paul III ( 29 February 1468 – 10 November 1549 ), born Alessandro Farnese, was Pope of the Roman Catholic Church from 1534 to his death in 1549.

Born in 1468 at Canino, Latium ( then part of the Papal States ), Alessandro Farnese was the oldest son of Pier Luigi I Farnese, Signore di Montalto ( 1435 – 1487 ) and his wife Giovanna Caetani, a member of the Caetani family which had also produced Pope Boniface VIII.

* Pope Paul III ( 1468 – 1549 ), Roman Catholic Bishop of Rome

*" University of Minnesota Carta Marina "-the original or Pope Paul III ( 1468 – 1549 ) map from 1539, in jpeg images.

* Pope Paul III, born Alessandro Farnese ( 1468 – 1549 )

In 1468 twenty of the academicians were arrested during Carnival, on charges of conspiracy against the Pope.

Canino was also a residence of the Farnese family ; future pope Paul III was born here in 1468.

In 1468 the last significant acquisition of Scottish territory occurred when James III married Margaret of Denmark, receiving the Orkney Islands and the Shetland Islands in payment of her dowry.

Stuart Hill claims that independence comes from an arrangement struck in 1468 between King Christian I of Denmark / Norway and Scotland's James III, whereby Christian pawned the Shetland Islands to James in order to raise money for his daughter's dowry.

Orkney and Shetland were pledged to James III in 1468 and 1469 respectively, and it is with these pledges that the replacement of Norn with Scots is most associated.

In 1468 Shetland was pledged by Christian I, in his capacity as King of Norway, as security against the payment of the dowry of his daughter Margaret, betrothed to James III of Scotland.

Orkney and Shetland continued to be ruled as autonomous Jarldoms under Norway until 1468, when King Christian I pledged them as security on the dowry of his daughter, who was betrothed to James III of Scotland.

* Ferdinand II of Aragon, the Catholic ( 1452 – 1516 ), king of Aragon from 1479, of Sicily from 1468, also known as Ferdinand V of Castile ( 1474 – 1504 ) and Ferdinand III of Naples ( 1504 – 1516 )

By 1468 he had returned to Verona, where Frederick III awarded him a laurel crown for his poetry.

On the basis of a marriage arrangement between King Christian of Norway and King James III of Scotland that dates to 1468 the island was declared to be a British crown dependency, and thus not a part of the United Kingdom or of the European Union.

In 1468 Shetland was pledged by Christian I, in his capacity as King of Norway, as security against the payment of the dowry of his daughter Margaret, betrothed to James III of Scotland.

In 1468 the last great acquisition of Scottish territory occurred when James III married Margaret of Denmark, receiving the Orkney Islands and the Shetland Islands in payment of her dowry.

* Abu Tashufin III 1468 ( son of the previous )

During the time of Ulrich III von Nussdorf ( 1451 – 79 ) the diocese suffered its first great curtailment by the formation of the new Diocese of Vienna ( 1468 ).

Siegmund of Brandenburg-Bayreuth ( 27 September 1468 in Ansbach – 26 February 1495 in Ansbach ) was the sixth, but third surviving, son of Albrecht III, Margrave of Brandenburg, Ansbach and Bayreuth.

Lord Boyd obtained the cession of the Orkney Islands to Scotland, 8 September 1468, from Christian I, King of Norway, for whose daughter Margaret, he negotiated a marriage with James III.

In 1468 Orkney and Shetland were pledged by Christian I, in his capacity as king of Norway, for the payment of the dowry of his daughter Margaret, betrothed to James III of Scotland, and as the money was never paid, their connection with the crown of Scotland has been perpetual.

It is owned not by the church, but by the burgh of Kirkwall as a result of an act of King James III of Scotland following Orkney's annexation by the Scottish Crown in 1468.

In 1468, when Orkney was annexed for Scotland by King James III, St. Magnus Cathedral came under the control of the Archbishop of St. Andrews and the Bishops of Aberdeen and Orkney were subsequently of Scots rather than Scandinavian origin.