1458

Year 1458 (MCDLVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

This article is about the year 1458. For the number, see 1458 (number).

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century 15th century 16th century
Decades:	1430s 1440s 1450s 1460s 1470s
Years:	1455 1456 1457 1458 1459 1460 1461

1458 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1458 MCDLVIII
Ab urbe condita	2211
Armenian calendar	907 ԹՎ ՋԷ
Assyrian calendar	6208
Balinese saka calendar	1379–1380
Bengali calendar	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) 4154 or 4094     — to — 戊寅年 (Earth Tiger) 4155 or 4095
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.
• March 25 – The Love Day is staged in London, by which Henry VI of England attempts to unite the warring factions who have triggered the War of the Roses.
• August 19 – Pope Pius II succeeds Pope Callixtus III, as the 210th pope.
• October 24 – King Afonso V of Portugal conquers Ksar es-Seghir, in North Africa.[1]

Date unknown

• Magdalen College, Oxford, is founded.
• George of Poděbrady becomes king of Bohemia.
• The Ottoman authorities issue a decree to protect the Acropolis, after they conquer Athens.[2]
• The Jewish community is expelled from Erfurt (Germany); their houses are sold, and the synagogue turned into an arsenal.[3]
• Moctezuma I, Tlatoani of Tenochtitlán, leads an expedition to the city-state Coixtlahuaca in Mixtec territory, but is defeated.
• A major volcano erupts from the Kuwae caldera, in the Pacific Ocean.[4]

Births

• February 15 – Ivan the Young, Ruler of Tver (d. 1490)
• April 9 – Camilla Battista da Varano, Italian saint (d. 1524)
• April 13 – John II, Duke of Cleves (d. 1521)
• May 2 – Eleanor of Viseu, Portuguese princess and later Queen of Portugal (d. 1525)
• August 18 – Lorenzo Pucci, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1531)
• October 3 – Saint Casimir, Prince of Poland and Duke of Lithuania (d. 1484)
• October 16 – Adolph II, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen, German prince (d. 1526)
• December 25 – Amago Tsunehisa, Japanese warlord (d. 1541)
• date unknown
  • Jacob Obrecht, Dutch composer (d. 1505)
  • Jacopo Sannazaro, Italian poet (d. 1530)
• probable
  • Thomas Docwra, Grand Prior of the English Knights Hospitaller (d. 1527)
  • Richard Grey, half brother of Edward V of England (d. 1483)

Deaths

• January 17 – Louis I, Landgrave of Hesse, Landgrave of Hesse (1413-1458) (b. 1402)
• February 20 – Lazar Branković, Despot of Serbia
• 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)
• July 28 – John II of Cyprus
• August 6 – Pope Callixtus III (b. 1378)
• 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

1. Vasconcelos e Sousa, Bernardo. "História de Portugal" (in Portuguese) (4th ed.). p. 182.
2. Martin Luther D'Ooge (1909), The Acropolis of Athens (The acropolis of Athens ed.), New York: Macmillan, OL 7107840M, 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.
3. Lemaître, Frédéric (September 19, 2011). "Erfurt, ses juifs et l'UNESCO". Le Monde (in French). Retrieved September 19, 2011.
4. Connor, Steve (July 7, 2014). "The history of the planet's biggest volcanic explosions - deep in the ice of Antarctica". The Independent. London. Retrieved July 7, 2014.