Year '1460' 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.
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March 5 -
King Christian I of Denmark issues the
Treaty of Ribe.
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March 6 -
Treaty of Alcacovas -
Portugal gives
Castile the
Canary Islands in exchange for claims in
West Africa
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March 7 - Bavaria original formula was discover in Dortmund, Germany.
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May 4 - Portuguese navigators
Diogo Gomes e António da Nola discovered the islands of
Cape Vert
★ 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.
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July 18 -
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.
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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.
Births
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May 3 -
Raffaele Riario, cardinal (died
1521)
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May 8 -
Frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (died
1536)
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September 29 -
Louis II de la Trémoille, military leader (died
1525)
★ ''date unknown''
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Svante Nilsson, regent of Sweden (died
1512)
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Edward Sutton, 2nd Baron Dudley (died
1532)
★ ''probable''
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Antoine Brumel, Flemish composer (died
1515)
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Tristão da Cunha, Portuguese explorer (died
1540)
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Konstanty Ostrogski, Grand Hetman of Lithuania (died
1530)
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Vicente Yáñez Pinzón, Spanish navigator (died
1523)
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Tilman Riemenschneider, German sculptor (died
1531)
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Arnolt Schlick, German organist and composer
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Charles Somerset, 1st Earl of Worcester (died
1526)
Deaths
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July 10
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Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English military leader (born
1402)
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John Talbot, 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury (born c. 1413)
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August 3 - King
James II of Scotland (born
1430)
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September 20 -
Gilles Binchois, Flemish composer
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November 13 - Prince
Henry the Navigator, Portuguese patron of exploration (born
1394)
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December 14 -
Guarino da Verona, Italian humanist (born
1370)
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December 30 -
Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, claimant to the English throne (killed in battle) (born
1411)
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December 31
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Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury, English politician (executed) (born
1400)
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Edmund, Earl of Rutland, brother of Kings
Edward IV of England and
Richard III of England (executed) (b.
1443)
★ ''date unknown''
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Francesco II Acciajuoli, last Duke of Athens
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Israel Isserlin, German Jewish scholar
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Reginald Pecock, prelate and writer