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Calendar overview 1461
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| 1461 in other calendars | |
| Armenian calendar | 909/910 (turn of the year July) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1453/54 |
| Aztec calendar | 7. Feuerstein - Chicome Tecpatl (until the end of January / beginning of February: 6th pipes - Chicuace Acatl ) |
| Buddhist calendar | 2004/05 (southern Buddhism); 2003/04 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana ) |
| Chinese calendar | 69th (70th) cycle
Year of the Metal Snake辛巳 ( at the beginning of the year Metal Dragon 庚辰) |
| Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam) | 823/824 (turn of the year April) |
| Iranian calendar | 839/840 |
| Islamic calendar | 865/866 (New Year 5th / 6th October) |
| Jewish calendar | 5221/22 (September 4th / 5th) |
| Coptic calendar | 1177/78 |
| Malayalam calendar | 636/637 |
| Seleucid era | Babylon: 1771/72 (turn of the year April)
Syria: 1772/73 (turn of the year October) |
| Spanish era | 1499 |
| Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar) | 1517/18 (turn of the year April) |
Events
Politics and world events
England / Wars of the Roses
Edward, Earl of March , who after the death of his father, Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York in December of last year, the House of York in the Rose wars quotes, defeated on Feb. 2 , the Lancastrians under Owen Tudor and Jasper Tudor, 1st Duke of Bedford , at the Battle of Mortimer's Cross . On February 17th the Second Battle of St Albans takes place , in which the Yorkists under Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick , are defeated by the House of Lancaster under Margaret of Anjou .
On March 28, the minor battle at Ferrybridge ends in a draw. But the very next day the bloodiest battle ever fought on English soil takes place: the House of York wins the Battle of Towton against the House of Lancaster , and Edward IV's way to the English throne is free. He is crowned king on June 28th .
Holy Roman Empire
- August 21 : Pope Pius II bans the Archbishop and Elector of Mainz , Diether von Isenburg , who two years ago only won the election against Adolf von Nassau with a narrow majority . He justifies the ban with Diether's opposition to the Pope and Emperor Friedrich III.
- Adolf von Nassau is appointed by the Pope as the new Archbishop of Mainz and enthroned on October 1st . However, the Free City of Mainz continues to support Diether, who refuses to vacate the Erzstuhl. The Mainz collegiate feud begins. Adolf allies himself with the Archbishop of Trier Johann II. Von Baden , the Bishop Georg von Metz , the Speyer Bishop Johannes II. Nix von Hoheneck and the Count Ulrich V. von Württemberg . Margrave Karl I von Baden first tried to mediate between the quarreling camps, but then took Adolf's side. On Diether's side are the city council of Mainz, his brother Ludwig and Elector Friedrich von der Pfalz , originally an enemy of Diether. Friedrich receives the cities of Lorsch , Heppenheim and Bensheim for his help .
France
- July 22nd : The French King Charles VII dies at the age of 58 in Mehun-sur-Yèvre of an abscessed mouth and is buried in the cathedral of Saint-Denis . He is followed by his eldest son Ludwig XI. on the throne. The declared enemy of his father immediately begins to persecute the old councils. The House of Burgundy and the Duke of Brittany are particularly affected.
Ottoman Empire / Trebizond
The kingdom of Trebizond when it was conquered in 1461, to the south the allied kingdom of the White Mutton under Uzun Hasan
- August 15 : The Greek Empire of Trebizond on the south-eastern Black Sea coast surrenders to the Ottoman troops after a brief siege of the capital Trebizond . After the fall of the last Eastern Roman Empire, the last Emperor David Komnenos was brought to Constantinople with his family , and later to Adrianople, where he temporarily lived as a “pensioner” of the Ottoman Empire . All that remains of the Roman Empire is the city of Monemvasia on the Greek Peloponnese peninsula , which becomes a Venetian protectorate in 1464 . The Hagia Sophia in Trebizond is then converted into a mosque .
Voyages of discovery
- The Portuguese navigator Pedro de Sintra reached the coast of Sierra Leone and the Pepper Coast in what is now Liberia .
First documentary mentions
religion
- After the death of Sigismund I von Volkersdorf on November 3rd , Burkhard von Weißpriach succeeded him as Archbishop of Salzburg .
Born
Date of birth saved
- February 19 : Domenico Grimani , Venetian patron, Patriarch of Aquileia, Cardinal Bishop of Albano, Frascati and Porto († 1523 )
- May 25 : Zanobi Acciaioli , Italian Dominican († 1519 )
- August 5 : Alexander , Polish nobleman, Grand Duke of Lithuania, King of Poland († 1506 )
- October 1 : Amalie von Brandenburg , German noblewoman, Duchess of Zweibrücken and Veldenz († 1481 )
- October 16 : Ruprecht von Pfalz-Simmern , Bishop of Regensburg († 1507 )
- December 25 : Christina of Saxony , Queen of Denmark, Norway and Sweden († 1521 )
Exact date of birth unknown
- Philipp Adler , Augsburg merchant († 1532 )
- Peter Babenberg , South German nobleman, abbot of the regulated canon monastery of Kreuzlingen, papal executor († 1545 )
- Antonia del Balzo , Countess of Sabbioneta († 1538 )
- Bohuslaus Lobkowicz von Hassenstein , Bohemian nobleman, humanist, statesman, lawyer, poet († 1510 )
- Veit Hirschvogel , German glass painter († 1526 )
- Ulrich Zasius , German lawyer and humanist († 1535 )
Born around 1461
- 1460/61 : Elisabeth von Weida , abbess of the free secular monastery of Gernrode and Frose († 1532 )
- Bartolomeo Columbus , Spanish navigator and cosmographer († 1515 )
- Pedro de Lerma , Spanish theologian, Chancellor of the University of Alcalá († 1541 )
Died
January to July
- February 2nd / 3rd : Owen Tudor , English nobleman, military leader (* around 1400 )
- February 17th : John Gray of Groby , English knight (* around 1432 )
- March 28 : John Clifford, 9th Baron de Clifford , English nobleman and military man (* 1435 )
- March 29 : Ralph Dacre, 1st Baron Dacre of Gilsland , English nobleman (* around 1412 )
- March 29th : Everard Digby , English squire (* around 1410 )
- April 8th : Georg von Peuerbach , Austrian astronomer (* 1423 )
- June 5 : Stephan Krumenauer , German builder (* around 1400 )
- July 5 : Otto I , German nobleman, Duke of Palatinate-Mosbach-Neumarkt (* 1390 )
- July 22nd : Charles VII , King of France (* 1403 )
August to December
- August 17th : Jacques de Milly , French nobleman, 37th Grand Master of the Order of St. John
- September 23 : Charles of Viana , French nobleman, Prince of Viana (* 1421 )
- October 7th : Jean Poton de Xaintrailles , French nobleman, royal bailiff of Berry, Seneschal and Limousin, Marshal of France (* between 1390 and 1400)
High tomb Giorgio Fieschi in the Cathedral of Genoa
- October 11th : Giorgio Fieschi , Italian nobleman, cardinal of the Catholic Church
- November 3 : Sigismund I von Volkersdorf , Archbishop of Salzburg (* around 1395 )
- 4th or 5th November : Georg von Saluzzo , Bishop of Aosta and Lausanne (* before 1414)
- November 6th : John Mowbray , English nobleman, 3rd Duke of Norfolk (* 1415 )
- November 15 : Johann Lüneburg , German councilor, mayor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck (* around 1385 )
Exact date of death unknown
- Hans Acker , German glass painter (* around 1380 )
- Alfons of Braganza , Portuguese nobleman, progenitor of the House of Braganza, the later Portuguese royal and Brazilian imperial family (* 1377 )
- Reinhard von Dalwigk , German nobleman, knight and castle man (* around 1400 )
- Martin Le Franc , French author and cleric (* around 1410 )
- Gerhard von der Mark zu Hamm , German nobleman, Count von der Mark (* around 1387 )
- Sophie Holszańska , Ruthenian nobleman, Grand Duchess of Lithuania and Queen of Poland (* 1405 )
- Fir Kankena , East Frisian chief
- Markart Merklin , German councilor, mayor of the imperial city of Heilbronn
- Jakoubek z Vřesovic , Moravian nobleman, military leader and diplomat
Died around 1461
- Domenico Veneziano , Italian painter (* around 1410 )
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