1460

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 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 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 general Constantine Graitzas Palaiologos defeated Turkish forces at Salmenikon.

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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