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Il 1461 (MCDLXI in numeri romani) è un anno del XV secolo . Indice. 1 Eventi. 2 Nati. 3 Morti. 4 Calendario. 5 Altri progetti. Eventi. 15 agosto – Cade l' Impero di Trebisonda, ultimo territorio di cultura bizantina, nato dalla frammentazione dell' Impero bizantino dopo la quarta crociata del 1204.
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- 867 — 868
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November 27 – 1461 L'Aquila earthquake. A severe earthquake occurs in L'Aquila. Date unknown. Cirencester Grammar School is founded in southwest England by the Bishop of Durham. Leonardo da Vinci and Sandro Botticelli become students of Verrocchio. Sarajevo, capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, is founded by the Ottomans.
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In 1461 England was in the sixth year of the Wars of the Roses, a series of civil wars between the houses of York and Lancaster over the English throne. The Lancastrians backed the reigning King of England, Henry VI, a weak and indecisive man who suffered from intermittent bouts of madness. The leader of the Yorkists was initially Richard, Duke of ...
The armies gathered at Towton were among the largest at the time. Contemporary sources (like Gregory's Chronicle) claimed that the soldiers on each side numbered in the hundreds of thousands. These figures are thought to be exaggerated, and modern historians believe that a combined figure of 50,000–65,000 is more likely, between one and two per cen...
Very few historical sources give detailed accounts of the battle and they do not describe the exact deployments of the armies. The paucity of such primary sources led early historians to adopt Hall's chronicle as their main resource for the engagement, despite its authorship 70 years after the event and questions over the origin of his information....
As Somerset was content to stand and let his foes come to him, the opening move of the battle was made by the Yorkists.Noticing the direction and strength of the wind, Fauconberg ordered all Yorkist archers to step forward and unleash a volley of their arrows from what would be the standard maximum range of their longbows. With the wind behind them...
The tired Lancastrians flung off their helmets and armour to run faster. Without such protection, they were much more vulnerable to the attacks of the Yorkists. Norfolk's troops were much fresher and faster. Fleeing across what would later become known as Bloody Meadow, many Lancastrians were cut down from behind or were slain after they had surren...
On receiving news of his army's defeat, Henry fled into exile in Scotland with his wife and son. They were later joined by Somerset, Ros, Exeter, and the few Lancastrian nobles who escaped from the battlefield. The Battle of Towton severely reduced the power of the House of Lancaster in England; the linchpins of their power at court (Northumberland...
In the sixteenth century William Shakespeare wrote a number of dramatisations of historic figures. The use of history as a backdrop, against which the familiar characters act out Shakespeare's drama, lends a sense of realism to his plays. Shakespeare wrote a three-part play about Henry VI, relying heavily on Hall's chronicle as a source. His vision...
Obtaining an accurate figure for casualties has been complicated: remains were either moved or used by farmers as fertiliser, and corpses were generally stripped of clothing and non-perishable items before burial. However some survived when later buildings were constructed over their graves; the first were uncovered in 1996 and excavations have so ...
- 29 March 1461
- Yorkist victory
La battaglia di Towton si svolse il 29 marzo 1461 in un altopiano fra i villaggi di Towton e Saxton, nello Yorkshire (circa 19 km a sudovest di York e 3,2 km a sud di Tadcaster ). La battaglia fa parte della guerra delle due rose, combattuta fra il casato di York e quello di Lancaster per il controllo del trono d' Inghilterra.
- Vittoria decisiva degli York
- 29 marzo 1461
2 febbraio - Owen Tudor, militare gallese; 4 febbraio - Giovanni Chellini, medico e mecenate italiano; 17 febbraio - John Grey di Groby, cavaliere medievale inglese (n. 1432) 18 febbraio - William Bonville, I barone Bonville, nobile e militare britannico
Il terremoto dell'Aquila del 1461 è stato un evento sismico verificatosi il 26 novembre 1461 nella valle dell'Aterno, in Abruzzo. Il sisma ebbe una magnitudo momento di 6.5 ed un'intensità compresa tra il XI e il X grado della scala Mercalli.
2.500-4.000 morti o catturati. Voci di battaglie presenti su Wikipedia. Manuale. La battaglia di Genova fu uno scontro verificatosi il 17 luglio 1461 tra le milizie sforzesche sostenute dai genovesi e l'esercito francese al comando di Renato d'Angiò .
