1460s

Millennium:	2nd millennium
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Categories:	Births – Deaths – Architecture Establishments – Disestablishments

1460s: events by year

Contents: 1460 1461 1462 1463 1464 1465 1466 1467 1468 1469

January–December

• 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.

Date unknown

• The first Portuguese navigators reach the coast of modern Sierra Leone.
• A monk, Leonardo da Pistoia, arrives in Florence from Macedonia with the Corpus Hermeticum.
• University of Basel is founded.

January–December

• March 27 – Vasili II of Russia dies, and is succeeded by his son Ivan III of Russia.
• June 17 – Vlad III Dracula attempts to assassinate Mehmed II in The Night Attack, forcing Mehmed to retreat from Wallachia.
• September 17 – Thirteen Years' War – Battle of Świecino (Battle of Żarnowiec): The Kingdom of Poland defeats the Teutonic Order.

Date unknown

• The Jews are expelled from Mainz, Germany.
• Settlers from Portugal begin to settle the Cape Verde islands.

January–December

• January 5 – Poet François Villon is banned from Paris.
• September 15 – Battle of Zatoka Świeża: The navy of the Prussian Confederation defeats the Teutonic fleet.

Date unknown

• Bosnia and Herzegovina falls under Turkish power.
• Muhammad Rimfa starts to rule in Kano.
• Corpus Hermeticum is translated into Latin language by Marsilio Ficino.

January–December

• April 25 – Battle of Hedgeley Moor: Yorkist forces under Lord Montague defeat Lancastrians under Sir Ralph Percy, who is killed.
• May 1 – Edward IV of England secretly marries Elizabeth Woodville, and keeps the marriage a secret for 5 months afterwards.
• May 15 – Battle of Hexham: Montague defeats another Lancastrian army, this one led by King Henry and Queen Margaret themselves. This marks the end of organized Lancastrian resistance for several years.
• June 23 – Christian I of Denmark and Norway, who was also serving as King of Sweden, is declared deposed from the latter throne. His deposed predecessor Charles VIII of Sweden is re-elected to the throne.
• August 21 – Emperor Go-Hanazono of Japan abdicates, and is succeeded by his son, Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado.
• August 30 – Pope Paul II succeeds Pope Pius II as the 211th pope.

Date unknown

• Jehan Lagadeuc writes a Breton-French-Latin dictionary called the Catholicon. It's the first French dictionary as well as the first Breton dictionary of world history, and it will be published in 1499.
• In China, a small rebellion occurs in the interior province of Huguang, during the Ming Dynasty; a subsequent rebellion springs up in Guangxi, where a rebellion of the Miao people and Yao people forces the Ming throne to respond by sending 30,000 troops (including 1,000 Mongol cavalry) to aid the 160,000 local troops stationed in the region to crush the rebellion that will end in 1466.
• Pope Pius II himself shoulders the cross of the Crusader. Pope Pius II named Skanderbeg general captain of the Holy See. Skanderbeg was given the title Athleta Christi. This plan forced Skanderbeg to break his 10 year peace treaty with the Ottomans signed in 1463, by attacking the Turkish forces near Ohrid.

January–December

• January 29 – Amadeus IX becomes Duke of Savoy.
• January 30 – Charles VIII of Sweden is deposed. Clergyman Kettil Karlsson Vasa becomes Regent of Sweden.
• July 13 – Battle of Montlhéry: Troops of King Louis XI of France fight inconclusively against an army of the great nobles organized as the League of the Public Weal.
• August 11 – In Sweden, Regent Kettil Karlsson Vasa dies and is succeeded by Jöns Bengtsson Oxenstierna.
• October 14 – Wallachian voivode Radu cel Frumos, younger brother of Vlad Ţepeş, issues a writ from his residence in Bucharest

Writ issued on 14 October 1465 by the Wallachian voivode Radu cel Frumos, from his residence in Bucharest. It is the oldest known document that mentions Bucharest by name.

Date unknown

• Former King Henry VI of England is captured by Yorkist forces and imprisoned in the Tower of London. Queen consort Margaret of Anjou and the Prince of Wales Edward of Westminster had fled to France.
• Massive flooding in central and southern China motivates the initial construction of hundreds of new bridges under the Ming Dynasty.

January–December

• June – Second Siege of Krujë: Mehmed II leads an army of 150,000 in an attempt to quash the Albanian resistance by taking Krujë. The Albanians repulse him and the Ottoman army retreats from Albania.
• August 26 – A conspiracy against Piero di Cosimo de' Medici, led by Luca Pitti and Borso d'Este, is discovered and put down in Florence.
• October 19 – The Thirteen Years' War ends with the Second Peace of Thorn.

Date unknown

• The Chimú Empire is conquered by troops of the Inca.
• Erik Axelsson Tott replaces Jöns Bengtsson Oxenstierna as Regent of Sweden.
• The first printed German language Bible is produced.
• Louis XI of France introduces silk weaving to Lyon.

January–December

• 15 June - Philip the Good is succeded as Duke of Burgundy by Charles the Bold.
• July 25 – Battle of Molinella.
• October 29 – Battle of Brustem: Charles the Bold defeats Liege.

Date unknown

• Third Siege of Krujë (1467): A few months after the failure of the second siege, Mehmed II led an army into Albania in 1467. Albanian victory.
• The Ōnin War (1467–1477), which initiates the Sengoku Period in Japan, begins.
• The polyalphabetic cipher is invented by Leone Battista Alberti (approximate date).
• Regent of Sweden Erik Axelsson Tott supports the re-election of deposed Charles VIII of Sweden to the throne.
• Pope Paul II arrests and tortures some of the abbreviators, among them Filip Callimachus.
• King Matthias Corvinus founds the first university in Slovakia, the Universitas Istropolitana in Bratislava.

January–December

• August 26 – Baeda Maryam succeeds his father Zara Yaqob as Emperor of Ethiopia.
• October 14 – The Treaty of Péronne is signed by Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, and Louis XI of France.
• December 3 - Lorenzo de' Medici and his brother Giuliano de' Medici succeed their father, Piero di Cosimo de' Medici

Date unknown

• The Lancastrians surrender Harlech Castle to King Edward IV of England after a seven-year siege.
• The Great Council of the Republic of Venice attempts to curb the power of the Council of Ten through legislation restricting them to acting on emergency matters.
• Metz Cathedral is completed.

January–December

• March 20 – The Battle of Nibley Green in England is the last fought between the private armies of feudal magnates.
• July 26 – Battle of Edgecote Moor: The House of Lancaster defeats the House of York.
• October 19 – Infante Ferdinand of Aragon marries Infanta Isabella of Castile. This event will lead to a unified Spain in 1492.

Date unknown

• Sigismund of Austria sells Upper-Elsass (Alsace) to Charles the Bold in exchange for aid in a war against the Swiss.
• Uzun Hassan wins in Persia and defeats Abu Sa'id.
• Lorenzo de' Medici takes power in Florence.
• Moctezuma I, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan, dies and is succeeded by Axayacatl.
• James III of Scotland acquires the Orkney and Shetland Islands from Denmark.
• Marsilio Ficino completes his translation of the collected works of Plato.
• Marsilio Ficino writes "Commentary on Plato's Symposium on Love".
• Marsilio Ficino starts to work on "Platonic Theology".

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