Events of 1465

• January 30 - Charles VIII of Sweden is deposed. Clergyman Kettil Karlsson Vasa becomes Regent of Sweden.
• July 13 - Battle of Montlhéry: Troops of King Louis XI of France fight inconclusively against an army of the great nobles organized as the League of the Public Weal.
• August 11 - In Sweden, Regent Kettil Karlsson Vasa dies and is succeeded by Jöns Bengtsson Oxenstierna.
• Amadeus IX becomes Duke of Savoy.
• Former King Henry VI of England is captured by Yorkist forces and imprisoned in the Tower of London. Queen consort Margaret of Anjou and the Prince of Wales Edward of Westminster had fled to France.
• Massive flooding in central and southern China motives the initial construction of hundreds of new bridges under the Ming Dynasty.

Births

• June 10 - Mercurino Gattinara, Italian statesman and jurist (d. 1530)
• August 17 - Philibert I, Duke of Savoy (d. 1482)
• September 11 - Bernardo Accolti, Italian poet (d. 1536)
• October 10 - Selim I, sultan of the Ottoman Empire (d. 1520)
• October 14 - Konrad Peutinger, German humanist and antiquarian (d. 1547)
• December 11 - Ashikaga Yoshihisa, Japanese shogun (d. 1489)
• date unknown
• Hector Boece, Scottish historian (d. 1536)
• William Cornysh, English composer (d. 1523)
• Johann Tetzel, German Dominican priest (d. 1519)
• Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar, Spanish conquistador (d. 1524)
• probable
• Francisco Álvares, Portuguese missionary and explorer (d. 1541)

Deaths

• January 5 - Charles, duc d'Orléans, French poet (b. 1394)
• January 14 - Thomas Beckington, English statesman and prelate
• March 30 - Isabella of Taranto, queen consort of Naples (b. c.1424)
• April 30 - Jacob of Juterbogk, theologian (b. c. 1381)
• May 12 - Thomas Palaiologos, claimant to Byzantine throne (b. 1409)
• August 11 - Kettil Karlsson, regent of Sweden (b. 1433)
• October 14 - Baron Raß von Balzers, descendant of Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor
• date unknown
• Isabella of Bourbon, wife of Charles the Bold (b. 1436)
• John Hardyng, English chronicler (b. 1378)
• Louis, Duke of Savoy (b. 1413)