1458

1458 200px|thumb|September 3: Pius II is crowned as the 210th Pope. 1458 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. Events January–March January 24 – Matthias Corvinus becomes king of Hungary, at age 14.John P. C. Matthews Explosion: The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 https://books.google.com/books?id=fCyh3zIlkbsC&pg=PA74 2007 Hippocrene Books 978-0-7818-1174-3 74 February 20 – Stefan Branković, blind since 1441, becomes the Despot of Serbia upon the death of his brother, Lazar Branković.Despot Lazar Branković Spremić Momčilo Zbornik radova Vizantološkog instituta 2013 50 2 899–912 10.2298/ZRVI1350899S free February 27 – George of Poděbrady is elected king of Bohemia.December 2025 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.David Grummitt Henry VI https://books.google.com/books?id=aOcjCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA190 8 May 2015 Routledge 978-1-317-48260-4 190 April–June April 2 – George of Poděbrady (King Jiří z Poděbrad) receives the Crown of Saint Wenceslas at his coronation at the St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague as King of Bohemia.December 2025 April 19 – In Bohemia, a group of Silesian princes and city rulers form an alliance against the new King, George of Podebrady. Within a year, the resistance is dropped and the Silesian princes pay homage to King George. April 20 – Isidore of Kiev is installed as the Latin Patriarchate of Constantinople, leader of Eastern Orthodox Christians in the Ottoman Empire, with the approval of the Muslim Ottoman Sultan, Mehmed II.Isidore of Thessalonica May 6 – At Bidar in India, the Sultan of Bahmani, dies after a reign of 22 years and is succeeded by his son, Humayun Shah Zalim Bahmani.Krishna Swaroop Dhir, The Wonder that is Urdu: A Multidisciplinary Analysis (Motilal Banarsidass, 2022) p.508 June 27 – Alfonso V of Aragon, King of Aragon in Spain since 1416 and King of Naples in Italy since 1442, dies at his home at the Castel dell'Ovo in Naples.Ryder Alan https://archive.org/details/kingdomofnaplesu0000ryde/page/n7/mode/2up The Kingdom of Naples Under Alfonso the Magnanimous: The Making of a Modern State 1976 Oxford University Press 978-0-19-822535-5 Oxford 2704031 By prior arrangement with his family, Alfonso is succeeded as King of Naples by his son, Fernando, popularly known in Naples as "Ferrante". At the same time, Alfonso's brother Juan, King of Navarre and King of Sicily, becomes the new King of Aragon.Medieval Iberia : an encyclopedia 2003 Routledge Gerli E. Michael Alfonso V, King of Aragon, The Magnanimous Ryder Alan 0-415-93918-6 New York 50404104 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.Macmillan New York Martin Luther D'Ooge The Acropolis of Athens 1909 In 1458 the Turkish ruler occupied the Propylaea as a residence, and turned the Erechtheum into a harem, restoring, however, the Parthenon to the Greeks as a place of worship. 7107840M July–September July 15 – Magdalen College, Oxford, is founded. http://www.magd.ox.ac.uk/discover-magdalen/history-of-college College History magd.ox.ac.uk March 22, 2019 August 6 – Pope Callixtus III dies after a reign of slightly more than three years. August 19 – The conclave to elect a new Pope concludes at the Apostolic Palace, with only 19 of the 27 members of the College of Cardinals participating. One of the electors, Cardinal Domenico Capranica appeared to be the most likely choice for Pope, but had died suddenly on August 14, two days before the conclave opened. On the first ballot on August 18, no candidate had more than five votes, but by the next day, Cardinal Enea Piccolomini, Archbishop of Siena, receives unanimous support after initially competing against Guillaume d'Estouteville and Filippo Calandrini.Francis Burkle-Young “Papal elections in the Fifteenth Century: the election of Pius II II Piccoloni takes the name Pope Pius II as the 210th pope.Jan L. de Jong The Power and the Glorification: Papal Pretensions and the Art of Propaganda in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries https://books.google.com/books?id=cAJywP5rVK8C&pg=PA4 April 5, 2013 Penn State Press 978-0-271-06237-2 4 September 3 – The coronation of Pope Pius II by Cardinal Prospero Colonna takes place on the front steps of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.Georges Bourgin, "Les cardinaux français et le diaire caméral de 1439-1486," in: Mélanges d' archeologie et d' histoire vol. 24 (1904), pp. 277-318, at p. 293. October–December October 24 – King Afonso V of Portugal conquers the area around Ksar es-Seghir in the Sultanate of Morocco, led by Sultan Abd al-Haqq II.Vasconcelos e Sousa Bernardo História de Portugal 4th 182 pt November 12 – (6th waxing of Nadaw 820 ME) Min Khayi, ruler of the Burmese Kingdom of Arakan leads a successful defense of an invasion from the Shan State by his son, Prince Min Swe.Sandamala Linkara Ashin Rakhine Yazawinthit Kyan 1931 1997–1999 Tetlan Sarpay Burmese 2 21 Yangon November 13 – Sultan Abd al-Haqq II of Morocco begins a 7-week siege of the Portuguese settlement of Alcácer-Ceguer, but is ultimately unsuccessful in recovering the captured territory.Ignacio da Costa Quintella: Annaes da Marinha Portugueza, Typographia da Academia Real das Sciencias, 1839, p.163 December 26 – François II becomes the new Duke of Brittany upon the death of his uncle Arthur de Richemont.Arthur de Richemont http://xenophongroup.com/montjoie/richmond.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20160306062953/http://xenophongroup.com/montjoie/richmond.htm 6 March 2016 Date unknown The Jewish community is expelled from Erfurt (Germany); their houses are sold, and the synagogue turned into an arsenal.Lemaître Frédéric Erfurt, ses juifs et l'UNESCO http://www.lemonde.fr/europe/article/2011/09/19/erfurt-ses-juifs-et-l-unesco_1574328_3214.html September 19, 2011 Le Monde September 19, 2011 fr Moctezuma I, Tlatoani of Tenochtitlán, leads an expedition to the city-state Coixtlahuaca in Mixtec territory, but is defeated. A major volcano erupts.Steve Connor The history of the planet's biggest volcanic explosions – deep in the ice of Antarctica https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/the-history-of-the-planets-biggest-volcanic-explosions--deep-in-the-ice-of-antarctica-9587991.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/the-history-of-the-planets-biggest-volcanic-explosions--deep-in-the-ice-of-antarctica-9587991.html May 1, 2022 subscription live The Independent London July 7, 2014 July 7, 2014 Magdalen College was founded in the University of Oxford, England. Births February 15 – Ivan the Young, Ruler of Tver (d. 1490) April 9 – Camilla Battista da Varano, Italian saint (d. 1524)Saint Camilla Battista da Varano The Mental Sorrows of Jesus in His Passion https://books.google.com/books?id=ejlxAAAAMAAJ 1986 Peregrina 978-0-920669-05-1 3 April 13 – John II, Duke of Cleves (d. 1521)November 21, 1881 Johann II. (Herzog von Kleve-Mark) Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/ADB:Johann_II._(Herzog_von_Kleve-Mark March 31, 2021 Harleß Woldemar 210 May 2 – Eleanor of Viseu, Portuguese princess and later Queen of Portugal (d. 1525)Anne Commire Deborah Klezmer Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia https://books.google.com/books?id=iEQOAQAAMAAJ 2000 Yorkin Publications 978-0-7876-4064-4 107 July 28 – Jacopo Sannazaro, Italian poet (d. 1530)William John Kennedy Gene Z. Hanrahan Jacopo Sannazaro and the Uses of Pastoral https://books.google.com/books?id=pEJdAAAAMAAJ 1983 University Press of New England 978-0-87451-268-7 August 18 – Lorenzo Pucci, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1531) October 3 – Saint Casimir, Prince of Poland and Duke of Lithuania (d. 1484)Paul Burns Butler's Saint for the Day https://books.google.com/books?id=KGKtAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA103 July 15, 2007 A&C Black 978-0-86012-434-4 103 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)William John Wright Capitalism, the State, and the Lutheran Reformation: Sixteenth-century Hesse https://books.google.com/books?id=M48cAAAAMAAJ 1988 Ohio University Press 978-0-8214-0863-6 46 February 20 – Lazar Branković, Despot of SerbiaThéoharis Stavrides The Sultan of Vezirs: The Life and Times of the Ottoman Grand Vezir Mahmud Pasha Angelović (1453-1474) https://books.google.com/books?id=ptXG0uA70lAC&pg=PA94 2001 BRILL 90-04-12106-4 94 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)E. Michael Gerli Medieval Iberia https://books.google.com/books?id=ra9BtjLRNMsC&pg=PA57 2003 Taylor & Francis 978-0-415-93918-8 57 July 28 – John II of Cyprus August 6 – Pope Callixtus III (b. 1378)Annie E. McKilliam A Chronicle of the Popes from St. Peter to Pius X https://books.google.com/books?id=mzTZAAAAMAAJ 1912 G. Bell and sons, Limited 388 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