Year 1460 (MCDLX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) 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. Events January–December January 15 – Battle of Sandwich: Yorkists raid Sandwich, Kent, England, and capture the royal fleet. March 5 – King Christian I of Denmark issues the Treaty of Ribe, enabling himself to become Count of Holstein, and regain control of Denmark's lost Duchy of Schleswig. April 4 – The University of Basel is founded in Switzerland. June 26 – Wars of the Roses: Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick and Edward, Earl of March (eldest son of Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York) land in England with an army, and march on London. July 4 – The cannons of the Tower of London, still in Lancastrian hands, are fired on the city of London, which is mostly in Yorkist hands. The Tower is surrendered on July 19. July 10 – Wars of the Roses – Battle of Northampton: Warwick and March defeat a Lancastrian army and seize King Henry VI of England. It is agreed that York will be Henry's heir, disinheriting the King's son Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales. August 3 – While supervising a siege of English occupiers of Roxburgh Castle, King James II of Scotland is killed, when one of his own cannons explodes. December 30 – Wars of the Roses – Battle of Wakefield: A Lancastrian army under Henry Beaufort, Duke of Somerset and Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland decisively defeats a Yorkist army under Richard of York and his son, Edmund, Earl of Rutland, who are both killed. York's son Edward becomes leader of the Yorkist faction. Date unknown Ali Bey Mihaloğlu captures Michael Szilágyi. Portuguese navigator Pedro de Sintra reaches the coast of modern-day Sierra Leone. A famine breaks out in the Deccan Plateau of India. A monk, Leonardo da Pistoia, arrives in Florence from Macedonia, with the Corpus Hermeticum. Births May 8 – Frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (d. 1536) June 1 – Enno I, Count of East Frisia (1466–1491) (d. 1491) September 29 – Louis II de la Trémoille, French military leader (d. 1525) date unknown Vasco da Gama, Portuguese explorer (d. 1524) Isabella Hoppringle, Scottish