1459
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 14th century – 15th century – 16th century |
| Decades: | 1420s 1430s 1440s – 1450s – 1460s 1470s 1480s |
| Years: | 1456 1457 1458 – 1459 – 1460 1461 1462 |
| 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 |
| Art and literature |
| 1459 in poetry |
| Gregorian calendar | 1459 MCDLIX |
| Ab urbe condita | 2212 |
| Armenian calendar | 908 ԹՎ ՋԸ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6209 |
| Bengali calendar | 866 |
| Berber calendar | 2409 |
| English Regnal year | 37 Hen. 6 – 38 Hen. 6 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2003 |
| Burmese calendar | 821 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6967–6968 |
| Chinese calendar | 戊寅年 (Earth Tiger) 4155 or 4095 — to — 己卯年 (Earth Rabbit) 4156 or 4096 |
| Coptic calendar | 1175–1176 |
| Discordian calendar | 2625 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1451–1452 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5219–5220 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1515–1516 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1381–1382 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4560–4561 |
| Holocene calendar | 11459 |
| Igbo calendar | 459–460 |
| Iranian calendar | 837–838 |
| Islamic calendar | 863–864 |
| Japanese calendar | Chōroku 3 (長禄３年) |
| Julian calendar | 1459 MCDLIX |
| Korean calendar | 3792 |
| Minguo calendar | 453 before ROC 民前453年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2001–2002 |
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Year 1459 (MCDLIX) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
- September 23 – Wars of the Roses: Battle of Blore Heath in England: Yorkists under Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury defeat a Lancastrian force.
- October 12 – Wars of the Roses: Due to the advance of a royal force on his fortress of Ludlow, Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York, flees to Ireland, while his ally Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, goes to Calais.
Date unknown
- The Wallachian town of Bucharest is first mentioned.
- The city of Jodhpur, in western India, is founded by Rao Jodha of Marwar.
- Richard Duke of York, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, returns on a second visit to Ireland.[1] The Irish Parliament, meeting at Drogheda, upholds his authority against Henry VI and an English Act of Attainder.
Religion
- King Stephen Thomas of Bosnia forces the clergy of the Bosnian Church into exile.
- According to a legend, the wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz.
Births
- January 25 – Paul Hofhaimer, Austrian organist (d. 1537)
- March 2 – Pope Adrian VI (d. 1523)
- March 6 – Jakob Fugger, German banker (d. 1525)
- March 22 – Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1519)
- October 6 – Martin Behaim, German explorer and cartographer (d. 1507)
- December 22 – Cem Sultan, pretender to the Ottoman throne (d. 1495)
- date unknown – Edward Poyning, Lord Deputy to King Henry VII of England (d. 1521)
- probable – Lorenzo di Credi, Florentine painter and sculptor (d. 1537)
Deaths
- March 3 – Ausiàs March, Catalan poet (b. 1397)
- May 3 – Eric of Pomerania, King of Norway, Denmark and Sweden (b. 1382)
- September 23 – James Touchet, 5th Baron Audley (in battle) (born 1400)
- October 30 – Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini, Italian humanist (b. 1380)
- November 5 – John Fastolf, English soldier
- December 4 – Adolf VIII, Duke of Southern Jutland (b. 1401)
References
- ↑ The Oxford Illustrated History of Ireland. Foster, RF. Oxford University Press, Oxford. 1989