1458

Template:Use mdy dates Template:About year Template:Year nav Template:C15 year in topicYear 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–December

• January 24 – Matthias Corvinus becomes king of Hungary, at age 14.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• February 27 – George of Poděbrady is elected king of Bohemia.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 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.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 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.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• July 15 – Magdalen College, Oxford, is founded.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• August 19 – Pope Pius II succeeds Callixtus III, as the 210th pope.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• October 24 – King Afonso V of Portugal conquers Ksar es-Seghir, in North Africa.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Date unknown

• The Jewish community is expelled from Erfurt (Germany); their houses are sold, and the synagogue turned into an arsenal.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• Moctezuma I, Tlatoani of Tenochtitlán, leads an expedition to the city-state Coixtlahuaca in Mixtec territory, but is defeated.
• A major volcano erupts.<ref>Template:Cite newsTemplate:Cbignore</ref>

Births

• February 15 – Ivan the Young, Ruler of Tver (d. 1490)
• April 9 – Camilla Battista da Varano, Italian saint (d. 1524)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• April 13 – John II, Duke of Cleves (d. 1521)<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>
• May 2 – Eleanor of Viseu, Portuguese princess and later Queen of Portugal (d. 1525)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• July 28 – Jacopo Sannazaro, Italian poet (d. 1530)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• August 18 – Lorenzo Pucci, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1531)
• October 3 – Saint Casimir, Prince of Poland and Duke of Lithuania (d. 1484)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• October 16 – Adolph II, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen, German prince (d. 1526)
• December 25 – Amago Tsunehisa, Japanese warlord (d. 1541)
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  • 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)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• February 20 – Lazar Branković, Despot of Serbia<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 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)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• July 28 – John II of Cyprus
• August 6 – Pope Callixtus III (b. 1378)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 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