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

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January–December

  • January 24 – Matthias Corvinus becomes king of Hungary at age 14.
  • 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.

    • Date unknown

  • Magdalen College, Oxford, is founded.
  • George of Poděbrady becomes king of Bohemia.
  • Luis Cadamosto discovers the first Cape Verde Islands.
  • The Turks issue a decree to protect the Acropolis after they conquer Athens.
  • The Jewish community is expelled from Erfurt (Germany), their houses are sold and the synagogue turned into an arsenal.
  • Major volcanic eruption from the Kuwae caldera in the Pacific Ocean.

    • Births

  • February 15 – Ivan the Young, Ruler of Tver (d. 1490)
  • April 9
  • Baptista Varani, Italian beatified abbess (d. 1527)
  • 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)
  • May 25 – Mahmud Begada, Sultan of Gujarat (d. 1511)
  • August 18 – Lorenzo Pucci, 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)
  • date unknown
  • Jacob Obrecht, Dutch composer (d. 1505)
  • Jacopo Sannazaro, Italian poet (d. 1530)
  • Amago Tsunehisa, Japanese warlord (d. 1541)
  • probable
  • Thomas Docwra, Grand Prior of the English Knights Hospitaller (d. 1527)
  • Richard Grey, half brother of Edward V of England (d. 1483)

    • Deaths

  • February 20 – Lazar Branković, Despot of Serbia
  • March 25 – Íñigo López de Mendoza, 1st Marquis of Santillana, Spanish poet (b. 1398)
  • June 27 – King Alfonso V of Aragon (b. 1396)
  • July 28 – John II of Cyprus
  • August 6 – Pope Callixtus III (b. 1378)
  • December 26 – Arthur III, Duke of Brittany (b. 1393)
  • date unknown – Isabelle Romée, mother of Joan of Arc

    • References

    1458 Wikipedia
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