1461

This article is about the year 1461.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1430s  1440s  1450s  – 1460s –  1470s  1480s  1490s
Years:	1458 1459 1460 – 1461 – 1462 1463 1464

1461 by topic
Arts and science
Architecture - Art
Politics
State leaders - Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births - Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments - Disestablishments
Art and literature
1461 in poetry

1461 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1461 MCDLXI
Ab urbe condita	2214
Armenian calendar	910 ԹՎ ՋԺ
Assyrian calendar	6211
Bahá'í calendar	-383–-382
Bengali calendar	868
Berber calendar	2411
English Regnal year	39 Hen. 6 – 1 Edw. 4
Buddhist calendar	2005
Burmese calendar	823
Byzantine calendar	6969–6970
Chinese calendar	庚辰年閏十一月二十日 (4097/4157-intercalary 11-20) — to — 辛巳年十一月三十日 (4098/4158-11-30)
Coptic calendar	1177–1178
Ethiopian calendar	1453–1454
Hebrew calendar	5221–5222
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1517–1518
- Shaka Samvat	1383–1384
- Kali Yuga	4562–4563
Holocene calendar	11461
Iranian calendar	839–840
Islamic calendar	865–866
Japanese calendar	Kanshō 2 (寛正2年)
Korean calendar	3794
Minguo calendar	451 before ROC 民前451年
Thai solar calendar	2004

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

Events

January–December

• 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, England: 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).
• June 28 – Edward, Richard of York's son, is crowned as Edward IV, King of England (reigns until 1483).
• July – Byzantine general Graitzas Palaiologos honourably surrenders Salmeniko Castle, last garrison of the Despotate of the Morea, to invading forces of the Ottoman Empire after a year-long siege.
• August 7 – The Ming Dynasty Chinese military general Cao Qin stages a coup against the Tianshun Emperor; after setting fire to the eastern and western gates of the Imperial City (Beijing) (which are doused by pouring rains during the day-long uprising), Cao Qin finds himself hemmed in on all sides by imperial forces, loses three of his own brothers in the fight, and instead of facing execution he flees to his home in the city and commits suicide by jumping down a well located within his walled compound.
• August 15 – The Empire of Trebizond, the last major Romano-Greek outpost, falls to the Ottoman Empire under Mehmed II, after a 21-day siege.

Date unknown

• Cirencester Grammar School is 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 writes Le Grand Testament.

Births

• February 6 – Džore Držić, poet and dramatist (d. 1501)
• April – Anne of France, princess and regent of France (d. 1522)
• May 25 – Zanobi Acciaioli, librarian of the Vatican (d. 1519)
• August 5 – Alexander Jagiellon, King of Poland (d. 1506)
• date unknown
  • Alessandro Alessandri, Mexican jurist (d. 1523)
  • Bohuslav Hasištejnský z Lobkovic, Bohemian nobleman (d. 1510)
  • Nicholas West, English bishop and diplomat (d. 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
  • Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland (in battle) (b. 1421)
  • Lionel de Welles, 6th Baron Welles
• April 8 – Georg Purbach, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1423)
• July 22 – King Charles VII of France (b. 1403)
• August 7
  • Cao Qin, Chinese general and rebel of the Ming Dynasty
  • Wu Jin, Mongol officer in the Ming Dynasty Chinese military
  • Kou Shen, head official of the Chinese Censorate (b. 1391)
  • Lu Gao, head of the Imperial Guard for the Ming Dynasty of China
• September 23 – Charles of Viana, King of Navarre (b. 1421)
• October 7 – Jean Poton de Xaintrailles, follower of Joan of Arc (b. c. 1390)
• date unknown – John de Mowbray, 3rd Duke of Norfolk (b. 1415)
• probable
  • Jonah Metropolitan of Moscow
  • Domenico Veneziano, Italian painter