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Year1460(MCDLX) was aleap year starting on Tuesday(link will display the full calendar) of theJulian calendar,the 1460th year of theCommon Era(CE) andAnno Domini(AD) designations, the 460th year of the2nd millennium,the 60th year of the15th century,and the 1st year of the1460sdecade.
Events
[edit]January–December
[edit]- January 15–Battle of Sandwich:YorkistsraidSandwich, Kent,England, and capture the royal fleet.[1]
- March 5–KingChristian I of Denmarkissues theTreaty of Ribe,enabling himself to become Count ofHolstein,and regain control of Denmark's lostDuchy of Schleswig.
- April 4– TheUniversity of Baselis founded inSwitzerland.
- June 26–Wars of the Roses:Richard Neville, Earl of WarwickandEdward, Earl of March(eldest son ofRichard Plantagenet, Duke of York) land inEnglandwith an army, and march on London.
- July 4– The cannons of theTower of London,still inLancastrianhands, are fired on thecity of London,which is mostly inYorkisthands. The Tower is surrendered onJuly 19.[2]
- July 10– Wars of the Roses –Battle of Northampton:WarwickandMarchdefeat a Lancastrian army and seize KingHenry VI of England.[3]It is agreed that York will be Henry's heir, disinheriting the King's sonEdward of Westminster, Prince of Wales.
- August 3– While supervising a siege of English occupiers ofRoxburgh Castle,KingJames II of Scotlandis killed, when one of his owncannonsexplodes.
- December 30– Wars of the Roses –Battle of Wakefield:A Lancastrian army underHenry Beaufort, Duke of SomersetandHenry Percy, Earl of Northumberlanddecisively defeats a Yorkist army underRichard of Yorkand his son,Edmund, Earl of Rutland,who are both killed. York's sonEdwardbecomes leader of the Yorkist faction.[4]
Date unknown
[edit]- Ali Bey MihaloğlucapturesMichael Szilágyi.
- Portuguese navigatorPedro de Sintrareaches the coast of modern-daySierra Leone.
- A famine breaks out in theDeccan Plateauof India.
- A monk, Leonardo da Pistoia, arrives inFlorencefromMacedonia,with theCorpus 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 Trémoille,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 Mendonça,Spanish courtier (d.1542)
- Edward Sutton, 2nd Baron Dudley,English nobleman (d.1532)
- probable
- Antoine Brumel,Flemish composer (d.1515)
- Tristão 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. after1521)
- 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– KingJames 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 KingsEdward IV of EnglandandRichard 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]- ^Peter Burley; Michael Elliot; Harvey Watson (September 9, 2013).The Battles of St Albans.Pen and Sword. p. 46.ISBN978-1-84415-569-9.
- ^Bennett, Vanora."London and the Wars of the Roses".Archived fromthe originalon September 14, 2013.RetrievedAugust 16,2013.
- ^Williams, Hywel (2005).Cassell's Chronology of World History.London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp.183–185.ISBN0-304-35730-8.
- ^Philip A. Haigh (1996).The Battle of Wakefield, 30 December 1460.Sutton.ISBN978-0-7509-1342-3.
- ^Trevor Royle (2009).The Road to Bosworth Field: A New History of the Wars of the Roses.Little, Brown. p. 233.ISBN978-0-316-72767-9.
- ^"Richard, 3rd duke of York | English noble".Encyclopedia Britannica.RetrievedSeptember 29,2018.