Timeline July 1460

Events in July 1460 3

• 1402 – 1460 Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham (1402-1460) Died 10 July 1460, aged 57 Stafford, a leading Lancastrian magnate and close ally of Henry VI, was killed defending the royal camp at the Battle of Northampton. His death removed one of the crown's most capable military commanders during the Wars of the Roses.
• 1460 Ottoman conquest of the Morea Last Byzantine despotate falls to Sultan Mehmed II Mehmed II's army overran the Despotate of Morea, the last independent Byzantine successor state, forcing Despot Demetrios Palaiologos to surrender his capital at Mistra. His brother Thomas fled to Italy, ending Byzantine rule in the Peloponnese.
• 1460 Battle of Northampton Yorkists capture King Henry VI Yorkist forces defeated the Lancastrian royal army outside Northampton, aided by treachery among the king's artillery commanders. Henry VI was captured in the aftermath and brought to London, while several leading Lancastrian lords were killed defending the camp.