1460

year

1460 (MCDLX)was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1460th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 460th year of the 2nd millennium, the 60th year of the 15th century, and the 1st year of the 1460s decade. As of the start of 1460, the Gregorian calendar was 9 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

Millennium:2nd millennium
Centuries:14th century15th century16th century
Decades: 1430s  1440s  1450s  – 1460s –  1470s  1480s  1490s
Years:1457 1458 145914601461 1462 1463
1460 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar1460
MCDLX
Ab urbe condita2213
Armenian calendar909
ԹՎ ՋԹ
Assyrian calendar6210
Balinese saka calendar1381–1382
Bengali calendar867
Berber calendar2410
English Regnal year38 Hen. 6 – 39 Hen. 6
Buddhist calendar2004
Burmese calendar822
Byzantine calendar6968–6969
Chinese calendar己卯(Earth Rabbit)
4156 or 4096
    — to —
庚辰年 (Metal Dragon)
4157 or 4097
Coptic calendar1176–1177
Discordian calendar2626
Ethiopian calendar1452–1453
Hebrew calendar5220–5221
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1516–1517
 - Shaka Samvat1381–1382
 - Kali Yuga4560–4561
Holocene calendar11460
Igbo calendar460–461
Iranian calendar838–839
Islamic calendar864–865
Japanese calendarChōroku 4 / Kanshō 1
(寛正元年)
Javanese calendar1376–1377
Julian calendar1460
MCDLX
Korean calendar3793
Minguo calendar452 before ROC
民前452年
Nanakshahi calendar−8
Thai solar calendar2002–2003
Tibetan calendar阴土兔年
(female Earth-Rabbit)
1586 or 1205 or 433
    — to —
阳金龙年
(male Iron-Dragon)
1587 or 1206 or 434

Events

  • The first Portuguese navigators reach the coast of modern Sierra Leone.
  • March 5King Christian I of Denmark declares the unity of the two provinces of Schleswig and Holstein, who have been treated as one ever since (although under different national affiliations).
  • March 6 – Treaty of Alcacovas – Portugal gives Castile the Canary Islands in exchange for claims in West Africa
  • 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 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.
  • 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.