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{{C15 year in topic}}Year '''1460''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MCDLX]]''') was a [[leap year starting on Tuesday]] 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 ==
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=== January&ndash;December ===
* [[January 15]] &ndash; [[Battle of Sandwich (1460)|Battle of Sandwich]]: [[Yorkists]] raid [[Sandwich, Kent]], England, and capture the royal fleet.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Peter Burley|author2=Michael Elliot|author3=Harvey Watson|title=The Battles of St Albans|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DlR-AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA46|date=9 September 2013|publisher=Pen and Sword|isbn=978-1-84415-569-9|pages=46}}</ref>
* [[March 5]] &ndash; [[Monarch|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]] &ndash; The [[University of Basel]] is founded in [[Old Swiss Confederacy|Switzerland]].
* [[June 26]] &ndash; [[Wars of the Roses]]: [[Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick]] and [[Edward IV of England|Edward, Earl of March]] (eldest son of [[Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York]]) land in [[Kingdom of England|England]] with an army, and march on London.
* [[July 4]] &ndash; The cannons of the [[Tower of London]], still in [[House of Lancaster|Lancastrian]] hands, are fired on the [[city of London]], which is mostly in [[House of York|Yorkist]] hands. The Tower is surrendered on [[July 19]].<ref>{{cite web|first=Vanora |last=Bennett |author-link=Vanora Bennett |title=London and the Wars of the Roses |url=http://vanorabennett.com/book/figures-in-silk-aka-queen-of-silks-london-and-the-wars-of-the-roses/ |access-date=2013-08-16 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130914035651/http://vanorabennett.com/book/figures-in-silk-aka-queen-of-silks-london-and-the-wars-of-the-roses/ |archive-date=September 14, 2013 }}</ref>
* [[July 10]] &ndash; Wars of the Roses &ndash; [[Battle of Northampton (1460)|Battle of Northampton]]: [[Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick|Warwick]] and [[Edward IV of England|March]] defeat a Lancastrian army and seize King [[Henry VI of England]].<ref name="Cassell's Chronology">{{cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|url=https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will|url-access=registration|location=London|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|pages=[https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/183 183–185]}}</ref> It is agreed that York will be Henry's heir, disinheriting the King's son [[Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales]].
* [[August 3]] &ndash; While supervising a siege of English occupiers of [[Roxburgh Castle]], King [[James II of Scotland]] is killed, when one of his own [[cannon]]s explodes.
* [[December 30]] &ndash; Wars of the Roses &ndash; [[Battle of Wakefield]]: A Lancastrian army under [[Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke of Somerset|Henry Beaufort, Duke of Somerset]] and [[Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland|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. York's son [[Edward IV of England|Edward]] becomes leader of the Yorkist faction.<ref>{{cite book|author=Philip A. Haigh|title=The Battle of Wakefield, 30 December 1460|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N1txAAAAIAAJ|year=1996|publisher=Sutton|isbn=978-0-7509-1342-3}}</ref>

=== Date unknown ===
* [[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 (region)|Macedonia]], with the ''[[Corpus Hermeticum]]''.</onlyinclude>

== Births ==
* [[May 8]] &ndash; [[Frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach]] (d. [[1536]])
* [[June 1]] &ndash; [[Enno I, Count of East Frisia]] (1466–1491) (d. [[1491]])
* [[September 29]] &ndash; [[Louis II de la Trémoille]], French military leader (d. [[1525]])
* ''date unknown''
** [[Vasco da Gama]], Portuguese explorer (d. [[1524]])
** [[Isabella Hoppringle]], Scottish abbess and spy (d. [[1538]])
** [[Svante Nilsson (regent of Sweden)|Svante Nilsson]], regent of Sweden (d. [[1512]])
** [[Ana de Mendonça]], Spanish courtier (d. [[1542]])
** [[Edward Sutton, 2nd Baron Dudley]], English nobleman (d. [[1532]])
* ''probable''
** [[Antoine Brumel]], Flemish composer (d. [[1515]])
** [[Tristão da Cunha]], Portuguese explorer (d. [[1540]])
** [[Katarzyna Weiglowa]], Jewish martyr (d. [[1539]])
** [[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 (d. after [[1521]])
** [[Charles Somerset, 1st Earl of Worcester]], English nobleman (d. [[1526]])
** [[Rodrigo de Bastidas]], Spanish conquistador (d. [[1527]])
** [[Ponce de Leon]], Spanish conquistador

== Deaths ==
* [[February 29]] &ndash; [[Albert III, Duke of Bavaria|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]] &ndash; [[Lord Scales]], English commander (b. [[1397]])
* [[August 3]] &ndash; King [[James II of Scotland]] (b. [[1430]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Trevor Royle|title=The Road to Bosworth Field: A New History of the Wars of the Roses|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hPMNAQAAMAAJ|year=2009|publisher=Little, Brown|isbn=978-0-316-72767-9|page=233}}</ref>
* [[September 20]] &ndash; [[Gilles Binchois]], Flemish composer (b. c. [[1400]])
* [[September 25]] &ndash; [[Katharina of Hanau]], German countess regent (b. [[1408]])
* [[November 13]] &ndash; [[Prince Henry the Navigator]], Portuguese patron of exploration (b. [[1394]])
* [[December 14]] &ndash; [[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]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Richard, 3rd duke of York {{!}} English noble |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Richard-3rd-duke-of-York |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=29 September 2018 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[December 31]] &ndash; [[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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