1460s

The 1460s decade ran from January 1, 1460, to December 31, 1469.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century 15th century 16th century
Decades:	1440s 1450s 1460s 1470s 1480s
Years:	1460 1461 1462 1463 1464 1465 1466 1467 1468 1469
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Events

1460

January–December

• 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.

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, with the Corpus Hermeticum.

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Significant people

• Charles I (the Bold) (1433–1477), Duke of Burgundy, r. 1467–1477
• Jean Fouquet of France (1420–1481), painter
• Francis II (1433–1488), Duke of Brittany, r. 1458–1488
• Gendun Drup of Tibet (1391–1474), First Dalai Lama
• Diogo Gomes of Portugal (1420–1485), navigator, explorer and writer
• Johannes Gutenberg of Mainz (1395?–1468), printer and inventor of the movable type printing press
• Henry the Navigator of Portugal (1394–1460), Portuguese prince and patron of exploration
• William Herbert of Wales (1423–1469), Pro-York nobleman
• Sir Thomas Malory of England (1405?–1471), soldier, member of Parliament, political prisoner, and author of Le Morte d'Arthur
• Richard Neville of England (1428–1471), nobleman, administrator, and military commander
• Demetrios Palaiologos of Morea (1407–1470), Byzantine Prince and Despot of Morea
• Thomas Palaiologos of Morea (1409–1465), Byzantine Prince and Despot of Morea
• Philip III (the Good) (1396–1467), Duke of Burgundy, r. 1419–1467
• Richard Plantagenet, Duke of Gloucester (1452–1483), English Prince, Yorkist commander, and future King of England
• Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York of England (1411-1460), nobleman, military commander, and Yorkist claimant to the Throne of England
• Mar Shimun IV, Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East (Patriarchate then based in Mosul), held position 1437–1497
• Tlacaelel (1397-1487), Tlacochcalcatl of the Aztec Empire
• Jasper Tudor of Wales (c.1431–1495), nobleman and adventurer
• Owen Tudor of Wales (c.1400–1461), soldier and courtier at the court of the English Kings
• Andrea del Verrocchio of Florence (1435–1488), painter, sculptor, and goldsmith

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References

1. Bennett, Vanora. "London and the Wars of the Roses". Archived from the original on September 14, 2013. Retrieved 2013-08-16.
2. Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 183–185. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.