1460

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1430s  1440s  1450s  – 1460s –  1470s  1480s  1490s
Years:	1457 1458 1459 – 1460 – 1461 1462 1463

1460 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology – Architecture –

Art – Literature – Music – Science

Leaders:   State leaders – Colonial governors

Category: Establishments – Disestablishments

Births – Deaths – Works

Year 1460 (MCDLX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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 7 – The Bavarian original formula is discovered in Dortmund, Germany.
• May 4 – Portuguese navigators Diogo Gomes and António da Nola discover the islands of Cape Verde.
• 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 4 – The cannon of the Tower of London, still in Lancaster hands, are fired on the city of London, which is mostly in Yorkist hands.
• 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.
• Roman (that is, Byzantine) general Constantine Graitzas Palaiologos defeated Turkish forces at Salmenikon.

1460 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1460 MCDLX
Ab urbe condita	2213
Armenian calendar	909 ԹՎ ՋԹ
Bahá'í calendar	-384 – -383
Bengali calendar	867
Berber calendar	2410
Buddhist calendar	2004
Burmese calendar	822
Byzantine calendar	6968 – 6969
Chinese calendar	己卯年十二月初八日 (4096/4156-12-8) — to — 庚辰年閏十一月十九日 (4097/4157-intercalary 11-19)
Coptic calendar	1176 – 1177
Ethiopian calendar	1452 – 1453
Hebrew calendar	5220 – 5221
Hindu calendars
- Bikram Samwat	1516 – 1517
- 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)
Korean calendar	3793
Thai solar calendar	2003

Births

• May 3 – Raffaele Riario, cardinal (d. 1521)
• May 8 – Frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (d. 1536)
• September 29 – Louis II de la Trémoille, military leader (d. 1525)
• date unknown
  • Svante Nilsson, regent of Sweden (d. 1512)
  • Edward Sutton, 2nd Baron Dudley (d. 1532)
• probable
  • Antoine Brumel, Flemish composer (d. 1515)
  • Tristão da Cunha, Portuguese explorer (d. 1540)
  • Konstanty Ostrogski, Grand Hetman of Lithuania (d. 1530)
  • Vicente Yáñez Pinzón, Spanish navigator (d. 1523)
  • Tilman Riemenschneider, German sculptor (d. 1531)
  • Arnolt Schlick, German organist and composer
  • Charles Somerset, 1st Earl of Worcester (d. 1526)

Deaths

• July 10
  • Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English military leader (b. 1402)
  • John Talbot, 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury (b. c. 1413)
• August 3 – King James II of Scotland (b. 1430)
• September 20 – Gilles Binchois, Flemish composer
• November 13 – Prince Henry the Navigator, Portuguese patron of exploration (b. 1394)
• December 14 – Guarino da Verona, Italian humanist (b. 1370)
• December 30 – Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, claimant to the English throne ( in battle) (b. 1411)
• December 31
  • Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury, English politician (executed) (b. 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 writer