1458
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Year 1458 (MCDLVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1458th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 458th year of the 2nd millennium, the 58th year of the 15th century, and the 9th year of the 1450s decade.
| Gregorian calendar | 1458 MCDLVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2211 |
| Armenian calendar | 907 ԹՎ ՋԷ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6208 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1379–1380 |
| Bengali calendar | 864–865 |
| Berber calendar | 2408 |
| English Regnal year | 36 Hen. 6 – 37 Hen. 6 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2002 |
| Burmese calendar | 820 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6966–6967 |
| Chinese calendar | 丁丑年 (Fire Ox) 4155 or 3948 — to — 戊寅年 (Earth Tiger) 4156 or 3949 |
| Coptic calendar | 1174–1175 |
| Discordian calendar | 2624 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1450–1451 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5218–5219 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1514–1515 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1379–1380 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4558–4559 |
| Holocene calendar | 11458 |
| Igbo calendar | 458–459 |
| Iranian calendar | 836–837 |
| Islamic calendar | 862–863 |
| Japanese calendar | Chōroku 2 (長禄２年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1374–1375 |
| Julian calendar | 1458 MCDLVIII |
| Korean calendar | 3791 |
| Minguo calendar | 454 before ROC 民前454年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −10 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2000–2001 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴火牛年 (female Fire-Ox) 1584 or 1203 or 431 — to — 阳土虎年 (male Earth-Tiger) 1585 or 1204 or 432 |
Events
January–December
- January 24 – Matthias Corvinus becomes king of Hungary, at age 14.[1]
- February 27 – George of Poděbrady is elected king of Bohemia.[2]
- March 25 – The Loveday is staged in London, by which Henry VI of England attempts to unite the warring factions who have triggered the Wars of the Roses.[3]
- June – Francesco II Acciaioli, last Duke of Athens, surrenders the city to the Ottoman Empire and Sultan Mehmed II enters peacefully in August. Ottoman authorities issue a decree to protect the Acropolis.[4]
- July 15 – Magdalen College, Oxford, is founded.[5]
- August 19 – Pope Pius II succeeds Callixtus III, as the 210th pope.[6]
- October 24 – King Afonso V of Portugal conquers Ksar es-Seghir, in North Africa.[7]
Date unknown
- The Jewish community is expelled from Erfurt (Germany); their houses are sold, and the synagogue turned into an arsenal.[8]
- Moctezuma I, Tlatoani of Tenochtitlán, leads an expedition to the city-state Coixtlahuaca in Mixtec territory, but is defeated.
- A major volcano erupts.[9]
Births
- February 15 – Ivan the Young, Ruler of Tver (d. 1490)
- April 9 – Camilla Battista da Varano, Italian saint (d. 1524)[10]
- April 13 – John II, Duke of Cleves (d. 1521)[11]
- May 2 – Eleanor of Viseu, Portuguese princess and later Queen of Portugal (d. 1525)[12]
- July 28 – Jacopo Sannazaro, Italian poet (d. 1530)[13]
- August 18 – Lorenzo Pucci, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1531)
- October 3 – Saint Casimir, Prince of Poland and Duke of Lithuania (d. 1484)[14]
- October 16 – Adolph II, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen, German prince (d. 1526)
- December 25 – Amago Tsunehisa, Japanese warlord (d. 1541)
- probable
- Thomas Docwra, Grand Prior of the English Knights Hospitaller (d. 1527)
- Jacob Obrecht, Dutch composer (d. 1505)
Deaths
- January 17 – Louis I, Landgrave of Hesse, Landgrave of Hesse (1413–1458) (b. 1402)[15]
- February 20 – Lazar Branković, Despot of Serbia[16]
- March 25 – Íñigo López de Mendoza, 1st Marquis of Santillana, Spanish poet (b. 1398)
- April 11 – Helena Palaiologina, Queen of Cyprus (b. 1428)
- June 27 – King Alfonso V of Aragon (b. 1396)[17]
- July 28 – John II of Cyprus
- August 6 – Pope Callixtus III (b. 1378)[18]
- September 7 – Maria of Castile, Queen of Aragon, Queen consort of Aragon and Naples (b. 1401)
- December 26 – Arthur III, Duke of Brittany (b. 1393)
- date unknown – Isabelle Romée, mother of Joan of Arc
References
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