What is 1460?
{{Year nav|1460}} {{Year in various calendars|1460}} {{Year article header|1460}} == Events == * The first [[Portugal|Portuguese]] navigators reach the coast of modern [[Sierra Leone]]. * [[March 5]] – [[Monarch|King]] [[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 [[Kingdom of Castile|Castile]] the [[Canary Islands]] in exchange for claims in [[West Africa]] * [[June]] – [[Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick|The Earl of Warwick]] and [[Edward IV of England|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 [[Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York|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 IV of England|Edward]] becomes leader of the Yorkist faction. [[Category:1460| ]]