1461

Year '1461' was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Events of 1461

Births

Deaths

Events of 1461

★ February 2 - Battle of Mortimer's Cross - Yorkist troops led by Edward, Duke of York defeat Lancastrians under Owen Tudor and his son Jasper Tudor, Earl of Pembroke in Wales.

★ February 17 - Second Battle of St Albans - The Earl of Warwick's army is defeated by a Lancastrian force under Queen Margaret, who recovers control of her husband.

★ March 4 - The Duke of York seizes London and proclaims himself King Edward IV of England

★ March 29 - Battle of Towton - Edward IV defeats Queen Margaret to make good his claim to the English throne. Thought to be the bloodiest battle ever fought in England.

★ Edward, Richard of York's son, crowned as Edward IV, King of England (reigns until 1483)

★ August 15 - The Empire of Trebizond, the last major Romano-Greek outpost falls to the Ottoman Empire under Mehmed II after a siege of 21 days.

★ Cirencester Grammar School founded in south-west England by the Bishop of Durham

★ Louis XI of France succeeds Charles VII of France as king (reigns until 1483)

★ Leonardo da Vinci and Sandro Botticelli become students of Verrocchio

★ Sarajevo, capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, is founded by the Ottomans

★ François Villon: ''Le Grand Testament''

★ Donatello: ''Judith and Holofernes''

Births

★ February 6 - Džore Držić, poet and dramatist (died 1501)

★ April - Anne of France, Princess and Regent of France (died 1522)

★ May 25 - Zanobi Acciaioli, librarian of the Vatican (died 1519)

★ August 5 - Alexander Jagiellon, King of Poland (died 1506)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Alessandro Alessandri, Italian jurist (died 1523)

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★ Bohuslav Hasištejnský z Lobkovic, Bohemian nobleman (died 1510)

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★ Nicholas West, English bishop and diplomat (died 1533)

Deaths

★ February 2 - Owen Tudor, Welsh founder of the Tudor dynasty (executed)

★ March 28 - John Clifford, 9th Baron de Clifford (in battle)

★ March 29

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★ Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland (in battle) (born 1421)

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★ Lionel de Welles, 6th Baron Welles

★ April 8 - Georg Purbach, German astronomer and mathematician (born 1423)

★ July 22 - King Charles VII of France (born 1403)

★ September 23 - Charles of Viana, King of Navarre (born 1421)

★ October 7 - Jean Poton de Xaintrailles, follower of Joan of Arc (born c.1390)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ John de Mowbray, 3rd Duke of Norfolk (born 1415)

★ ''probable''

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★ Jonah Metropolitan of Moscow

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★ Domenico Veneziano, Italian painter