1461

1461 (MCDLXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1461st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 461st year of the 2nd millennium, the 61st year of the 15th century, and the 2nd year of the 1460s decade. As of the start of 1461, the Gregorian calendar was 9 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

1461 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1461 MCDLXI
Ab urbe condita	2214
Armenian calendar	910 ԹՎ ՋԺ
Assyrian calendar	6211
Balinese saka calendar	1382–1383
Bengali calendar	868
Berber calendar	2411
English Regnal year	39 Hen. 6 – 1 Edw. 4
Buddhist calendar	2005
Burmese calendar	823
Byzantine calendar	6969–6970
Chinese calendar	庚辰年 (Metal Dragon) 4157 or 4097     — to — 辛巳年 (Metal Snake) 4158 or 4098
Coptic calendar	1177–1178
Discordian calendar	2627
Ethiopian calendar	1453–1454
Hebrew calendar	5221–5222
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1517–1518
- Shaka Samvat	1382–1383
- Kali Yuga	4561–4562
Holocene calendar	11461
Igbo calendar	461–462
Iranian calendar	839–840
Islamic calendar	865–866
Japanese calendar	Kanshō 2 (寛正２年)
Javanese calendar	1377–1378
Julian calendar	1461 MCDLXI
Korean calendar	3794
Minguo calendar	451 before ROC 民前451年
Nanakshahi calendar	−7
Thai solar calendar	2003–2004
Tibetan calendar	ལྕགས་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་ (male Iron-Dragon) 1587 or 1206 or 434     — to — ལྕགས་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་ (female Iron-Snake) 1588 or 1207 or 435

Events

• 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, crowned as Edward IV, King of England (reigns until 1483)
• 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.
• 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: Le Grand Testament
• Donatello: Judith and Holofernes