1460

This page relates to the year 1460 Calendrier Julien.

Events

the Maya capital Mayapan is destroyed by a country rising. The Maya civilization comes to a end.

Japan: Terrible a Famine ten-per-cent tax rural population of the area of Kyôto and Lake Biwa (fine in 1461). The famished ones are turned over against the usurers and the lords, then call upon the arbitration of the Shogun. This last leans for the villagers.

has Mantoue, Pie II publishes bubbles of crusade to support Hungarian and Albanian resistance to the Turkish push. The crusade of the poor people is set up at Ancône but does not embark.
Bulle Execrabilis which issues that whoever causes or subscribes a call to the council against the pope incurs the sorrow of major excommunication.

March 5th: Treaty of Ripen. The the Schleswig-Holstein lines up under the capacity of the king of the Denmark which guarantees the unit of it. Christian Ier of Denmark becomes duke of Sönderjylland (Slesvig of the South) and count of Holstein.

has Rome, a disciple of Porcari, Tiburce di Maso, is made hang by the pope to have wanted to follow the example of its Master.
the pope invested the king of Naples Shoeing.
Russia: Beginning of the reign of Ahmad Khan on the Horde of Gold (fine in 1481).

August 3rd: Beginning of the reign of James III (Jacques III of Scotland), king of Scotland born in 1452 (fine in 1488).
July 10th: Warwick demolishes the royalist troops of Henri of Lancaster to Northampton.
December 30th: Victoire of the Lancaster to the Battle of Wakefield. Richard of York is killed.

Anglo-Irish separatist Movement: Parliament of Dublin vote a resolution declaring that the Ireland must manage itself.

April: daN III Danicul, claiming with the throne of Valachie supported by Mathias Corvin, walk of Brasov, in Transylvania, on Valachie but east demolishes and decapitated by Vlad Empaleur (April 22nd). Its partisans are impaled. Vlad conducts then a punitive campaign against the Saxon ones of Brasov which supported daN III, then concluded a truce with the ambassadors from king Mathias.
May 31st: Mistra passes to the Othoman hands . Mehmet II takes the septentrional Morée and the Béotie with the Francs (1460 - 1461).
In July, Vlad Empaleur is turned over against the Wallachians of Almas and the fact of massacring (August 24th). Peace is signed with the king of Hungary the September 6th.
September: Armistice between Mathias Corvin and Frederic III (end in February 1461).

Mathias Corvin of Hungary creates “the black army”, a standing army of 18 000 mercenaries (Czech, German, Polish).
the voïévode of Transylvania, Mihály Szilágyi, uncle of Mathias Corvin, is captured by the Turks and is hung with Constantinople.

April 26th: The Université Albertina of Freiburg-in-Brisgau - founded in 1457 by the archduke Albert VI of Austria - accommodates its first students in four traditional faculties for the medieval time : Theology, Right, Medicine and Philosophy. There were 215 inscriptions the first year.

Johann Fust of Mainz, the silent partner of Gutenberg, sells its printed books with Paris.
Marsile Ficin exposes the identity of the Philosophie and the Théologie.
Construction of the church San Sebastiano to Mantoue by Leon Battista Alberti.
the Italian painter Andrea Mantegna starts to work on the Anguish with the Garden .
Andrea Mantegna painted Holy Sebastien .
Portrait of Jouvenel of Ursins , of Jean Fouquet.
Christ on the Mount of Olives (1460 - 1475) and Christ blessing (1460 - 1470), tables of Giovanni Bellini.
Donatello carries out Déploration of Christ , bronzes St. Lawrence church with Florence (fine in 1466).
Lady in yellow (portrait), Madonna (retable) and Nativity (fresco of the church of Santissima Annunziata to Florence, 1460-1462) of Alesso Baldovinetti.
Polyptyque of Saint-Vincent , together of six wood panels paints with oil, allotted to the painter Nuno Gonçalves and discovered in 1882 with the Saint-Vincent monastery of Lisbon.

August 3rd: Jacques II of Scotland, king d' Écosse of 1437 with 1460. (° October 16th 1430).
September 20th: Binche-native Gilles, musician at the court of Burgundy (born in 1400).
November 13rd: Henri the Navigator, third wire of the king Jean {{Ier}} of Portugal, initiator of great Portuguese explorations. (° March 4th 1394).
December 14th: Guarino, professor (born with Vérone in 1374). It remained with Byzance of 1403 with 1408, with Florence as professor of Greek (1413 - 1414), with Bologna, Venice, Vérone (1419 - 1429) then with Ferrare where it opens a private school before becoming the tutor of Lionel d' Este, then reader in the center of study.

FRA Mauro, cartographer of Murano. It corrects the chart of Ptolémée, estimating that the sea Indienne is an ocean and not an inland sea and considers the distance separating the coasts from the Europe and the China with a margin of error much lower than that of Ptolémée and completely erroneous figures which Christophe Colomb will take as a starting point.

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