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Gregorian calendar | 1460 MCDLX |
Ab urbe condita | 2213 |
Armenian calendar | 909 ԹՎ ՋԹ |
Assyrian calendar | 6210 |
Balinese saka calendar | 1381–1382 |
Bengali calendar | 866–867 |
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) 4157 or 3950 — to — 庚辰年 (Metal Dragon) 4158 or 3951 |
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 |
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.
- 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.
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