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 in topic:
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Literature - Music - Science
Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors
Category: Establishments -
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Deaths - Works
Year 1461 was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events of 1461
- 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: 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).
- Edward, Richard of York's son, is crowned as Edward IV, King of England (reigns until 1483).
- 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 (which were 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 house and commits suicide by jumping down a well located within the walled compound of his urban Beijing home.
- August 15 - The Empire of Trebizond, the last major Romano-Greek outpost, falls to the Ottoman Empire under Mehmed II, after a siege of 21 days.
- 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.
- Donatello paints Judith and Holofernes.
1461 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar
1461
MCDLXI
Ab urbe condita
2214
Armenian calendar
910
ԹՎ ՋԺ
Bahá'í calendar
-383 – -382
Berber calendar
2411
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
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Vikram Samvat
1516 – 1517
-
Shaka Samvat
1383 – 1384
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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
Thai solar calendar
2004
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