1459
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| Years: 1456 1457 1458 - 1459 - 1460 1461 1462 |
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| Decades: 1420s 1430s 1440s - 1450s - 1460s 1470s 1480s |
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| Centuries: 14th century - 15th century - 16th century |
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| 1459 by topic |
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| Arts and science |
| Architecture - Art |
| Politics |
| State leaders - Sovereign states |
| Birth and death categories |
| Births - Deaths |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories |
| Establishments - Disestablishments |
| Gregorian calendar | 1459 MCDLIX |
| Ab urbe condita | 2212 |
| Armenian calendar | 908 ԹՎ ՋԸ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -385 – -384 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2003 |
| Chinese calendar | 4095/4155-11-27 (戊寅年十一月廿七日) — to —
4096/4156-12-7(己卯年十二月初七日) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1451 – 1452 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5219 – 5220 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1514 – 1515 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1381 – 1382 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4560 – 4561 |
| Holocene calendar | 11459 |
| Iranian calendar | 837 – 838 |
| Islamic calendar | 863 – 864 |
| Japanese calendar | Chōroku 3 (長禄3年) |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 2119 (皇紀2119年) |
| - Jōmon Era | 11459 |
| Julian calendar | 1504 |
| Korean calendar | 3792 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2002 |
[edit] Events
- September 23 - Battle of Blore Heath. Yorkists under the Earl of Salisbury defeat a Lancastrian force.
- October 12 - Due to the advance of a royal force on his fortress of Ludlow, The Duke of York flees to Ireland, while his ally Warwick goes to Calais.
- First mention of the Wallachian town of Bucharest.
- City of Jodhpur, in western India, founded by Rao Jodha of Marwar.
[edit] Births
- March 2 - Pope Adrian VI (died 1523)
- March 6 - Jacob Fugger, German banker (d. 1525)
- March 22 - Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1519)
- October 6 - Martin Behaim, German explorer and cartographer (died 1507)
- Cem, pretender to the Ottoman throne (died 1495)
- Lorenzo di Credi, Florentine painter and sculptor (died 1537)
- Edward Poyning, Lord Deputy to King Henry VII of England (died 1521)
[edit] Deaths
- March 3 - Ausiàs March, Catalan poet (b. 1397)
- October 30 - Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini, Italian humanist (born 1380)
- December 4 - Adolf VIII, Duke of Southern Jutland (b. 1401)
- James Tuchet, 5th Baron Audley (born 1400)
- Eric of Pomerania, King of Norway, Denmark and Sweden (born 1382)
- John Fastolf, English soldier
