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{{C15 year in topic}}Year '''1459''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MCDLIX]]''') was a [[common year starting on Monday]] of the [[Julian calendar]].

== Events ==
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=== January&ndash;December ===
* [[January 18]] &ndash; The [[Order of Our Lady of Bethlehem]] is founded by [[Pope Pius II]], to defend the island of [[Lemnos]].
* [[September 23]] &ndash; [[Wars of the Roses]]: [[Battle of Blore Heath]] in [[Kingdom of England|England]] &ndash; [[Yorkist]]s under [[Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury]], defeat a [[House of Lancaster|Lancastrian]] force.<ref>{{cite book|author=John Sadler|title=The Red Rose and the White: The Wars of the Roses, 1453-1487|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DI2rAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT86|date=14 January 2014|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-317-90517-2|pages=86}}</ref>
* [[October 12]] &ndash; Wars of the Roses: With a royal force advancing on his fortress at [[Ludlow]], [[Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York]], flees to Ireland, while his ally [[Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick]] (Warwick the Kingmaker, eldest son of the Earl of Salisbury) goes to [[Calais]].

=== Date unknown ===
* The [[Wallachia]]n town of [[Bucharest]] is first mentioned.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Sonnenburg |first1=Stephan |last2=Baker |first2=Laura |title=Branded Spaces: Experience Enactments and Entanglements |date=February 26, 2013 |publisher=Springer Science & Business Media |isbn=978-3-658-01561-9 |page=236 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6WQ_AAAAQBAJ&pg=PA236 |language=en}}</ref>
* The city of [[Jodhpur]], in western India, is founded by [[Rao Jodha]] of [[Marwar]].
* [[Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York|Richard, Duke of York]], [[Lord Lieutenant of Ireland]], returns on a second visit to Ireland.<ref name="FO">''The Oxford Illustrated History of Ireland.'' Foster, RF. Oxford University Press, Oxford. 1989</ref>  The Irish Parliament, meeting at [[Drogheda]], upholds his authority against [[Henry VI of England|Henry VI]], and an English Act of [[Attainder]]. 
* [[Richard Hygons]], English composer, begins fifty years of service at [[Wells Cathedral]].

=== Religion ===
* King [[Thomas of Bosnia]] forces the clergy of the Bosnian Church into exile.
* According to a legend, the wedding of [[Christian Rosenkreuz]] takes place.</onlyinclude>

== Births ==
* [[January 25]] &ndash; [[Paul Hofhaimer]], Austrian organist and composer (d. [[1537]])
* [[March 2]] &ndash; [[Pope Adrian VI]], Dutch-born churchman (d. [[1523]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Adrian VI {{!}} pope |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Adrian-VI |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=20 March 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[March 6]] &ndash; [[Jakob Fugger]], German banker (d. [[1525]])
* [[March 22]] &ndash; [[Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor]] (d. [[1519]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Maximilian I {{!}} Holy Roman emperor |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Maximilian-I-Holy-Roman-emperor |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=20 March 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[May 15]] &ndash; [[John I, Count Palatine of Simmern]] (1480–1509) (d. [[1509]])
* [[July]] &ndash; [[Mingyi Nyo]], founder of the Toungoo Dynasty of Burma (Myanmar) (d. [[1530]])
* [[July 11]] &ndash; [[Kaspar, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken]], German nobleman (d. [[1527]])
* [[October 6]] &ndash; [[Martin Behaim]], German explorer and cartographer (d. [[1507]])
* [[December 22]] &ndash; [[Sultan Cem]], pretender to the Ottoman throne (d. [[1495]])
* [[December 27]] &ndash; King [[John I Albert]] of Poland (d. [[1501]])
* ''date unknown''
** [[Christina Brask]], Swedish writer and translator (d. [[1520]])
** [[Edward Poynings]], Lord Deputy to King Henry VII of England (d. [[1521]])
* ''probable'' &ndash; [[Lorenzo di Credi]], Florentine painter and sculptor (d. [[1537]])
* ''approximate''
** [[Jheronimus de Clibano]], Dutch composer (d. [[1503]])
** [[Jean Mouton]], French composer (d. [[1522]])

== Deaths ==
* [[February 14]] &ndash; [[Stephen, Count Palatine of Simmern-Zweibrücken]] (b. [[1385]])
* [[March 3]] &ndash; [[Ausiàs March]], Catalan poet from Valencia (b. [[1397]])
* [[May 2]] &ndash; [[Antoninus of Florence]], Italian archbishop (b. [[1389]])
* [[August 27]] &ndash; [[James of Portugal]], Portuguese cardinal (b. [[1433]])
* [[September 6]] &ndash; [[Katharina of Nassau-Beilstein]], German regent 
* [[September 17]] &ndash; [[Isabella of Urgell, Duchess of Coimbra]], Portuguese Duchess (b. [[1409]])
* [[September 23]] (killed at the [[Battle of Blore Heath]]):
** [[James Tuchet, 5th Baron Audley]] (b. [[1400]])
** [[Thomas Dutton]], English knight (b. [[1421]])
* [[September 24]] &ndash; [[Eric of Pomerania]], King of Norway, Denmark and Sweden (b. [[1382]])
* [[October 30]] &ndash; [[Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini]], Italian humanist (b. [[1380]])
* [[November 5]] &ndash; [[John Fastolf]], English soldier<ref>{{cite book|author=James Gairdner|title=The Paston letters, 1422-1509 A.D.: A new ed. containing upwards of four hundred letters, etc., hitherto unpublished|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lnRnAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA444|year=1895|publisher=A. Constable|pages=444}}</ref>
* [[December 4]] &ndash; [[Adolphus VIII, Count of Holstein|Adolf VIII]], Duke of Southern Jutland (b. [[1401]])

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