1458

September 3: Pius II is crowned as the 210th Pope.
1458 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1458
MCDLVIII
Ab urbe condita2211
Armenian calendar907
ԹՎ ՋԷ
Assyrian calendar6208
Balinese saka calendar1379–1380
Bengali calendar864–865
Berber calendar2408
English Regnal year36 Hen. 6 – 37 Hen. 6
Buddhist calendar2002
Burmese calendar820
Byzantine calendar6966–6967
Chinese calendar丁丑年 (Fire Ox)
4155 or 3948
    — to —
戊寅年 (Earth Tiger)
4156 or 3949
Coptic calendar1174–1175
Discordian calendar2624
Ethiopian calendar1450–1451
Hebrew calendar5218–5219
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1514–1515
 - Shaka Samvat1379–1380
 - Kali Yuga4558–4559
Holocene calendar11458
Igbo calendar458–459
Iranian calendar836–837
Islamic calendar862–863
Japanese calendarChōroku 2
(長禄２年)
Javanese calendar1374–1375
Julian calendar1458
MCDLVIII
Korean calendar3791
Minguo calendar454 before ROC
民前454年
Nanakshahi calendar−10
Thai solar calendar2000–2001
Tibetan calendarམེ་མོ་གླང་ལོ་
(female Fire-Ox)
1584 or 1203 or 431
    — to —
ས་ཕོ་སྟག་ལོ་
(male Earth-Tiger)
1585 or 1204 or 432

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

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.
  • 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.[4]
  • 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.[5]
  • 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.[6] 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.[7]
  • 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.[8]

July–September

  • July 15 – Magdalen College, Oxford, is founded.[9]
  • 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.[10] Piccoloni takes the name Pope Pius II as the 210th pope.[11]
  • 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.[12]

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.[13]
  • 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.[14]
  • 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.[15]
  • December 26 – François II becomes the new Duke of Brittany upon the death of his uncle Arthur de Richemont.[16]

Date unknown

  • The Jewish community is expelled from Erfurt (Germany); their houses are sold, and the synagogue turned into an arsenal.[17]
  • Moctezuma I, Tlatoani of Tenochtitlán, leads an expedition to the city-state Coixtlahuaca in Mixtec territory, but is defeated.
  • A major volcano erupts.[18]

Births

  • February 15 – Ivan the Young, Ruler of Tver (d. 1490)
  • April 9 – Camilla Battista da Varano, Italian saint (d. 1524)[19]
  • April 13 – John II, Duke of Cleves (d. 1521)[20]
  • May 2 – Eleanor of Viseu, Portuguese princess and later Queen of Portugal (d. 1525)[21]
  • July 28 – Jacopo Sannazaro, Italian poet (d. 1530)[22]
  • August 18 – Lorenzo Pucci, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1531)
  • October 3 – Saint Casimir, Prince of Poland and Duke of Lithuania (d. 1484)[23]
  • 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

References

  1. ^ John P. C. Matthews (2007). Explosion: The Hungarian Revolution of 1956. Hippocrene Books. p. 74. ISBN 978-0-7818-1174-3.
  2. ^ Spremić Momčilo (2013). "Despot Lazar Branković". Zbornik radova Vizantološkog instituta. 50 (2): 899–912. doi:10.2298/ZRVI1350899S.
  3. ^ David Grummitt (8 May 2015). Henry VI. Routledge. p. 190. ISBN 978-1-317-48260-4.
  4. ^  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Isidore of Thessalonica". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
  5. ^ Krishna Swaroop Dhir, The Wonder that is Urdu: A Multidisciplinary Analysis (Motilal Banarsidass, 2022) p.508
  6. ^ Ryder, Alan (1976). The Kingdom of Naples Under Alfonso the Magnanimous: The Making of a Modern State. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-822535-5. OCLC 2704031.
  7. ^ Ryder, Alan (2003). "Alfonso V, King of Aragon, The Magnanimous". In Gerli, E. Michael (ed.). Medieval Iberia : an encyclopedia. New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-93918-6. OCLC 50404104.
  8. ^ D'Ooge, Martin Luther (1909). The Acropolis of Athens. 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.
  9. ^ "College History". magd.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved March 22, 2019.
  10. ^ Francis Burkle-Young “Papal elections in the Fifteenth Century: the election of Pius II II
  11. ^ Jan L. de Jong (April 5, 2013). The Power and the Glorification: Papal Pretensions and the Art of Propaganda in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries. Penn State Press. p. 4. ISBN 978-0-271-06237-2.
  12. ^ 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.
  13. ^ Vasconcelos e Sousa, Bernardo. "História de Portugal" (in Portuguese) (4th ed.). p. 182.
  14. ^ Sandamala Linkara, Ashin (1931). Rakhine Yazawinthit Kyan (in Burmese). Vol. 2 (1997–1999 ed.). Yangon: Tetlan Sarpay. p. 21.
  15. ^ Ignacio da Costa Quintella: Annaes da Marinha Portugueza, Typographia da Academia Real das Sciencias, 1839, p.163
  16. ^ "Arthur de Richemont". Archived from the original on 6 March 2016.
  17. ^ Lemaître, Frédéric (September 19, 2011). "Erfurt, ses juifs et l'UNESCO". Le Monde (in French). Retrieved September 19, 2011.
  18. ^ Connor, Steve (July 7, 2014). "The history of the planet's biggest volcanic explosions – deep in the ice of Antarctica". The Independent. London. Archived from the original on May 1, 2022. Retrieved July 7, 2014.
  19. ^ Saint Camilla Battista da Varano (1986). The Mental Sorrows of Jesus in His Passion. Peregrina. p. 3. ISBN 978-0-920669-05-1.
  20. ^ Harleß, Woldemar (November 21, 1881). "Johann II. (Herzog von Kleve-Mark)". Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie. p. 210. Retrieved March 31, 2021.
  21. ^ Anne Commire; Deborah Klezmer (2000). Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Yorkin Publications. p. 107. ISBN 978-0-7876-4064-4.
  22. ^ William John Kennedy; Gene Z. Hanrahan (1983). Jacopo Sannazaro and the Uses of Pastoral. University Press of New England. ISBN 978-0-87451-268-7.
  23. ^ Paul Burns (July 15, 2007). Butler's Saint for the Day. A&C Black. p. 103. ISBN 978-0-86012-434-4.
  24. ^ William John Wright (1988). Capitalism, the State, and the Lutheran Reformation: Sixteenth-century Hesse. Ohio University Press. p. 46. ISBN 978-0-8214-0863-6.
  25. ^ Théoharis Stavrides (2001). The Sultan of Vezirs: The Life and Times of the Ottoman Grand Vezir Mahmud Pasha Angelović (1453-1474). BRILL. p. 94. ISBN 90-04-12106-4.
  26. ^ E. Michael Gerli (2003). Medieval Iberia. Taylor & Francis. p. 57. ISBN 978-0-415-93918-8.
  27. ^ Annie E. McKilliam (1912). A Chronicle of the Popes from St. Peter to Pius X. G. Bell and sons, Limited. p. 388.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.