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 [ edit ]

January–December [ edit ]

• 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 [ edit ]

• Ali Bey Mihalo?lu captures Michael Szilagyi .
• Portuguese navigator Pedro de Sintra reaches the coast of modern-day Sierra Leone .
• A famine breaks out in the Deccan Plateau of India.
• A monk, Leonardo da Pistoia, arrives in Florence from Macedonia , with the Corpus Hermeticum .

Births [ edit ]

• 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
  • Vasco da Gama , Portuguese explorer (d. 1524 )
  • Isabella Hoppringle , Scottish abbess and spy (d. 1538 )
  • Svante Nilsson , regent of Sweden (d. 1512 )
  • Ana de Mendonca , Spanish courtier (d. 1542 )
  • Edward Sutton, 2nd Baron Dudley , English nobleman (d. 1532 )
• 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 [ edit ]

• February 29 – Albert III , Duke of Bavaria-Munich (b. 1401 )
• July 10
  • Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham , English military leader (b. 1402 )
  • John Talbot, 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury (b. c. 1413 )
  • Thomas Percy, 1st Baron Egremont , English baron (b. 1422 )
• July 19 – Lord Scales , English commander (b. 1397 )
• August 3 – King James II of Scotland (b. 1430 ) ^[5]
• September 20 – Gilles Binchois , Flemish composer (b. c. 1400 )
• September 25 – Katharina of Hanau , German countess regent (b. 1408 )
• November 13 – Prince Henry the Navigator , Portuguese patron of exploration (b. 1394 )
• December 14 – Guarino da Verona , Italian humanist (b. 1370 )
• December 30
  • Edmund, Earl of Rutland , brother of Kings Edward IV of England and Richard III of England (b. 1443 )
  • Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York , claimant to the English throne (in battle) (b. 1411 ) ^[6]
• December 31 – Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury , English politician (executed) (b. 1400 )
• date unknown
  • Francesco II Acciaioli , last Duke of Athens (murdered by consent)
  • Israel Isserlein , Austrian Jewish scholar (b. 1390 )
  • Reginald Pecock , deposed Welsh bishop and writer (b. c. 1392 )

References [ edit ]