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

Contents

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. 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 Rosenkreuz.

    • Births

  • January 25 – Paul Hofhaimer, Austrian organist and composer (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)
  • May 15 – John I, Count Palatine of Simmern (1480–1509) (d. 1509)
  • July 11 – Kaspar, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, German nobleman (d. 1527)
  • October 6 – Martin Behaim, German explorer and cartographer (d. 1507)
  • November 30 – Mingyi Nyo, founder of Toungoo dynasty of Burma (Myanmar) (d. 1530)
  • December 22 – Sultan Cem, pretender to the Ottoman throne (d. 1495)
  • December 27 – John I Albert (d. 1501)
  • date unknown – Edward Poynings, 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 Tuchet, 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

    1459 Wikipedia
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