1459

Year '1459' was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Events of 1459

Births

Deaths

Events of 1459

★ 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.

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)

★ December 22 - Cem, pretender to the Ottoman throne (died 1495)

★ ''date unknown'' - Edward Poyning, Lord Deputy to King Henry VII of England (died 1521)

★ ''probable'' - Lorenzo di Credi, Florentine painter and sculptor (died 1537)

Deaths

★ March 3 - Ausiàs March, Catalan poet (b. 1397)

★ May 3 - Eric of Pomerania, King of Norway, Denmark and Sweden (born 1382)

★ September 23 - James Touchet, 5th Baron Audley (born 1400) (killed in battle)

★ October 30 - Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini, Italian humanist (born 1380)

★ November 5 - John Fastolf, English soldier

★ December 4 - Adolf VIII, Duke of Southern Jutland (b. 1401)