1460

This article is about the year 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 by topic
Arts and science
Architecture - Art
Politics
State leaders - Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births - Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments - Disestablishments
Art and literature
1460 in poetry

1460 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1460 MCDLX
Ab urbe condita	2213
Armenian calendar	909 ԹՎ ՋԹ
Assyrian calendar	6210
Bengali calendar	867
Berber calendar	2410
English Regnal year	38 Hen. 6 – 39 Hen. 6
Buddhist calendar	2004
Burmese calendar	822
Byzantine calendar	6968–6969
Chinese calendar	己卯年 (Earth Rabbit) 4156 or 4096     — to — 庚辰年 (Metal Dragon) 4157 or 4097
Coptic calendar	1176–1177
Discordian calendar	2626
Ethiopian calendar	1452–1453
Hebrew calendar	5220–5221
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1516–1517
- Shaka Samvat	1382–1383
- Kali Yuga	4561–4562
Holocene calendar	11460
Igbo calendar	460–461
Iranian calendar	838–839
Islamic calendar	864–865
Japanese calendar	Chōroku 4 / Kanshō 1 (寛正元年)
Julian calendar	1460 MCDLX
Korean calendar	3793
Minguo calendar	452 before ROC 民前452年
Thai solar calendar	2002–2003

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

Events

January–December

• 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.
• 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.
• July 10 – Wars of the Roses: Battle of Northampton: Warwick and March defeat a Lancastrian army and seize King Henry VI of England. 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, the latter murdered after the battle. York's son Edward becomes leader of the Yorkist faction.

Date unknown

• Ali Bey Mihaloğlu captures Michael Szilágyi.
• Portuguese navigator Pedro de Sintra reaches the coast of modern-day Sierra Leone.
• Famine in the Deccan Plateau of India.
• A monk, Leonardo da Pistoia, arrives in Florence from Macedonia with the Corpus Hermeticum.
• University of Basel is founded.

Births

• May 3 – Raffaele Riario, Italian cardinal (d. 1521)
• May 8 – Frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (d. 1536)
• September 29 – Louis II de la Trémoille, French military leader (d. 1525)
• date unknown
  • Svante Nilsson, regent of Sweden (d. 1512)
  • Edward Sutton, 2nd Baron Dudley, English nobleman (d. 1532)
• probable
  • Antoine Brumel, Flemish composer (d. 1515)
  • Tristão da Cunha, Portuguese explorer (d. 1540)
  • 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 (died after 1521)
  • Charles Somerset, 1st Earl of Worcester, English nobleman (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 (b. c. 1400)
• 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 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)