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Le Thanh Tong becomes king of Vietnam and introduces a Chinese-style government.
Yorkist forces led by Richard Neville, Duke of Warwick, defeat the Lancastrians at the Battle of Northampton (10 July) and capture Henry VI, who comes to a compromise with Richard, Duke of York, by which Richard will succeed to the English throne on Henry's death. Angry that her son, Prince Edward, is thus disinherited, Henry's queen, Margaret of Anjou, gathers her own forces, who kill York at Wakefield in December.
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