1460

1460 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1460; MCDLX
Ab urbe condita	2213
Armenian calendar	909; ԹՎ ՋԹ
Assyrian calendar	6210
Balinese saka calendar	1381–1382
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	1381–1382
- Kali Yuga	4560–4561
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)
Javanese calendar	1376–1377
Julian calendar	1460; MCDLX
Korean calendar	3793
Minguo calendar	452 before ROC; 民前452年
Nanakshahi calendar	−8
Thai solar calendar	2002–2003
Tibetan calendar	阴土兔年; (female Earth-Rabbit); 1586 or 1205 or 433; — to —; 阳金龙年; (male Iron-Dragon); 1587 or 1206 or 434

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

Year 1460 (MCDLX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar, the 1460th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 460th year of the 2nd millennium, the 60th year of the 15th century, and the 1st year of the 1460s decade.

Events

January 15 – Battle of Sandwich: Yorkists raid Sandwich, Kent and capture the royal fleet.
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.
April 4 – The University of Basel is founded in Switzerland.
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.[1]
July 10 – Wars of the Roses – Battle of Northampton: Warwick and March defeat a Lancastrian army and seize King Henry VI of England.[2] 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.

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

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 – King James II of Scotland (b. 1430)
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 Kings Edward IV of England and Richard III of England (b. 1443)
- Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York, claimant to the English throne (in battle) (b. 1411)[3]
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)

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Bennett, Vanora. "London and the Wars of the Roses". Archived from the original on September 14, 2013. Retrieved August 16, 2013.
Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 183–185. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
"Richard, 3rd duke of York | English noble". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved September 29, 2018.

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