History
1461
General
Population: 426 Million*
- Chronology: Unofficial start of the Renaissance
- Entertainment: Leonardo da Vinci becomes pupil of Berrocchio
- Deaths: Henry VI of England, Charles VII of France, Astronomer Georg Purbach
Americas
Europe
- General: End of skirmishes known as Hundred Years War in England and France
- Albania: Scanderbeg becomes Prince of Albania
- England: Death of Henry VI of England - Edward IV reigns
Continue War of the Roses - Battles of Mortimer's Cross and Towton
With help of Earl of Warwick (Kingmaker) Edward son of Richard of York defeats Lancastrians at Battle of Towton
- France: Death of Charles VII and son Louis XI rules
- Greece: Turks conquer Trebizond the last surviving Greek state
Middle East
- Ottomans: Turks conquer Trebizond the last surviving Greek state
Ottoman Turks conquer Trebizond (Trabzon) Turkey – capital of Comnenian empire since 1204