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Calendar year
Year
1460
(
MCDLX
) was a
leap year starting on Tuesday
(link will display the full calendar) of the
Julian calendar
, the 1460th year of the
Common Era
(CE) and
Anno Domini
(AD) designations, the 460th year of the
2nd millennium
, the 60th year of the
15th century
, and the 1st year of the
1460s
decade.
Events
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January–December
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- January 15
–
Battle of Sandwich
:
Yorkists
raid
Sandwich, Kent
, England, and capture the royal fleet.
[1]
- March 5
–
King
Christian I of Denmark
issues the
Treaty of Ribe
, enabling himself to become Count of
Holstein
, and regain control of Denmark's lost
Duchy of Schleswig
.
- April 4
– The
University of Basel
is founded in
Switzerland
.
- June 26
–
Wars of the Roses
:
Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick
and
Edward, Earl of March
(eldest son of
Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York
) land in
England
with an army, and march on London.
- July 4
– The cannons of the
Tower of London
, still in
Lancastrian
hands, are fired on the
city of London
, which is mostly in
Yorkist
hands. The Tower is surrendered on
July 19
.
[2]
- July 10
– Wars of the Roses –
Battle of Northampton
:
Warwick
and
March
defeat a Lancastrian army and seize King
Henry VI of England
.
[3]
It is agreed that York will be Henry's heir, disinheriting the King's son
Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales
.
- August 3
– While supervising a siege of English occupiers of
Roxburgh Castle
, King
James II of Scotland
is killed, when one of his own
cannons
explodes.
- December 30
– Wars of the Roses –
Battle of Wakefield
: A Lancastrian army under
Henry Beaufort, Duke of Somerset
and
Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland
decisively defeats a Yorkist army under
Richard of York
and his son,
Edmund, Earl of Rutland
, who are both killed. York's son
Edward
becomes leader of the Yorkist faction.
[4]
Date unknown
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Births
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- May 8
–
Frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach
(d.
1536
)
- June 1
–
Enno I, Count of East Frisia
(1466?1491) (d.
1491
)
- September 29
–
Louis II de la Tremoille
, French military leader (d.
1525
)
- date unknown
- probable
- Antoine Brumel
, Flemish composer (d.
1515
)
- Tristao da Cunha
, Portuguese explorer (d.
1540
)
- Katarzyna Weiglowa
, Jewish martyr (d.
1539
)
- Gwerful Mechain
, Welsh erotic poet (d.
1502
)
- Konstanty Ostrogski
, Grand Hetman of Lithuania (d.
1530
)
- Tilman Riemenschneider
, German sculptor (d.
1531
)
- Arnolt Schlick
, German organist and composer (d. after
1521
)
- Charles Somerset, 1st Earl of Worcester
, English nobleman (d.
1526
)
- Rodrigo de Bastidas
, Spanish conquistador (d.
1527
)
- Ponce de Leon
, Spanish conquistador
Deaths
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References
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