1460
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| Centuries: | 14th century - 15th century - 16th century |
| Decades: | 1430s 1440s 1450s - 1460s - 1470s 1480s 1490s
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| Years: | 1457 1458 1459 - 1460 - 1461 1462 1463 |
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| Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors |
| Category: Establishments - Disestablishments |
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Year 1460 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
[edit] Events of 1460
- The first Portuguese navigators reach the coast of modern Sierra Leone.
- March 5 - King Christian I of Denmark issues the Treaty of Ribe.
- March 6 - Treaty of Alcacovas - Portugal gives Castile the Canary Islands in exchange for claims in West Africa
- March 7 - Bavaria original formula was discover in Dortmund, Germany.
- May 4 - Portuguese navigators Diogo Gomes e António da Nola discovered the islands of Cape Vert
- June - The Earl of Warwick and Edward, Earl of March, eldest son of the Duke of York, land in England with an army and seize London.
- July 10 - Battle of Northampton - Warwick and March defeat a Lancastrian army and seize King Henry. It is agreed that York will be Henry's heir, disinheriting the King's son Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales.
- December 30 - Battle of Wakefield - A Lancastrian army under Henry Beaufort, Duke of Somerset and Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland defeats a Yorkist army under the Duke of York and his son, Edmund, Earl of Rutland. Both York and Rutland are killed, the latter murdered after the battle. York's son Edward becomes leader of the Yorkist faction.
| Gregorian calendar | 1460 MCDLX |
| Ab urbe condita | 2213 |
| Armenian calendar | 909 ԹՎ ՋԹ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -384 – -383 |
| Berber calendar | 2410 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2004 |
| Burmese calendar | 822 |
| Chinese calendar | 4096/4156-12-8 (己卯年十二月初八日) — to — 4097/4157-intercalary 11-19(庚辰年閏十一月十九日) |
| Coptic calendar | 1176 – 1177 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1452 – 1453 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5220 – 5221 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1515 – 1516 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1382 – 1383 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4561 – 4562 |
| Holocene calendar | 11460 |
| Iranian calendar | 838 – 839 |
| Islamic calendar | 864 – 865 |
| Japanese calendar | Chōroku 4Kanshō 1 (寛正元年) |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 2120 (皇紀2120年) |
| Julian calendar | 1505 |
| Korean calendar | 3793 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2003 |
[edit] Births
- May 3 - Raffaele Riario, cardinal (died 1521)
- May 8 - Frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (died 1536)
- September 29 - Louis II de la Trémoille, military leader (died 1525)
- date unknown
- Svante Nilsson, regent of Sweden (died 1512)
- Edward Sutton, 2nd Baron Dudley (died 1532)
- probable
- Antoine Brumel, Flemish composer (died 1515)
- Tristão da Cunha, Portuguese explorer (died 1540)
- Konstanty Ostrogski, Grand Hetman of Lithuania (died 1530)
- Vicente Yáñez Pinzón, Spanish navigator (died 1523)
- Tilman Riemenschneider, German sculptor (died 1531)
- Arnolt Schlick, German organist and composer
- Charles Somerset, 1st Earl of Worcester (died 1526)
[edit] Deaths
- July 10
- Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English military leader (born 1402)
- John Talbot, 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury (born c. 1413)
- August 3 - King James II of Scotland (born 1430)
- September 20 - Gilles Binchois, Flemish composer
- November 13 - Prince Henry the Navigator, Portuguese patron of exploration (born 1394)
- December 14 - Guarino da Verona, Italian humanist (born 1370)
- December 30 - Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, claimant to the English throne (killed in battle) (born 1411)
- December 31
- Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury, English politician (executed) (born 1400)
- Edmund, Earl of Rutland, brother of Kings Edward IV of England and Richard III of England (executed) (b. 1443)
- date unknown
- Francesco II Acciajuoli, last Duke of Athens
- Israel Isserlin, German Jewish scholar
- Reginald Pecock, prelate and writeraf:1460
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