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1458
Enea Silvio de 'Piccolomini becomes Pope Pius II.	Ferdinand I is enfeoffed with the Kingdom of Naples .
1458 in other calendars
Armenian calendar	906/907 (turn of the year July)
Ethiopian calendar	1450/51
Aztec calendar	4th house - Nahui Calli (until the end of January / beginning of February: 3rd Feuerstein - Jei Tecpatl )
Buddhist calendar	2001/02 (southern Buddhism); 2000/01 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar	69th (70th) cycle Year of the Earth Tiger戊寅 ( at the beginning of the year Fire Ox 丁丑)
Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam)	820/821 (turn of the year April)
Iranian calendar	836/837
Islamic calendar	862/863 (turn of the year November 7th / 8th)
Jewish calendar	5218/19 (September 8/9)
Coptic calendar	1174/75
Malayalam calendar	633/634
Seleucid era	Babylon: 1768/69 (turn of the year April) Syria: 1769/70 (turn of the year October)
Spanish era	1496
Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar)	1514/15 (turn of the year April)

Events

Politics and world events

Central and Eastern Europe

• January 24th : Matthias Corvinus is elected King of Hungary at the age of 14 to succeed his father Johann Hunyadi, who died in 1456 . He is supported by Georg von Podiebrad , who had held him hostage in previous years. So he makes Emperor Friedrich III. to the enemy, who also claims the Hungarian royal crown and can rely above all on the nobility of western Hungary, who reject a majority of the Hunyadi kingship.
• February 27 : George of Podebrady is a Utraquist stands majority of Bohemian elected king, which stalls other throne claims ignore. The Polish King Casimir , the Saxon Duke Wilhelm , Friedrich von Brandenburg and the French Prince Karl von Valois applied for the post that became vacant after the death of Ladislaus Postumus . In Iglau there is resistance against Georg. He moves there with his army and besieges the city for four months before a peace treaty is concluded on November 15 , in which the Iglauers undertake to pay homage to the king. Breslau also offers resistance for the time being.

Southern and Western Europe

When Alfonso V of Aragón , who as Alfonso I also holds the throne of Naples, at the height of the dispute with Pope Calixt III. , whose sponsor he was originally , dies on June 27th, Kalixt refuses his son Ferdinand the crown and confiscates the fief. Kalixt's nephew Pedro Luis is enfeoffed with the vicariates of Terracina and Benevento , which the deceased king previously held, and he is entrusted with leading the troops in the inevitable war against the Aragonese. In response, Ferdinand occupies the Kingdom of Naples . A few months later, after the Pope's death, he was entrusted with the fiefdom by his successor.

science and technology

• The Magdalen College of Oxford University is founded.

society

• The humanist and philosopher Nicolaus Cusanus founds the St. Nicholas Hospital in Kues as a hospital for the poor for 33 men from the nobility, clergy and bourgeoisie.

religion

On August 6th pope dies Calixt III. in Rome. On the conclave from August 14 to August 19 the election to Enea Silvio de 'Piccolomini falls, Prince-Bishop of Warmia and archdeacon of Xanten, which as Pope Pius II. Calls. The enthronement will take place on September 3rd . As Pope Piccolomini is now a staunch advocate of papalism and fights for the decision-making power of the Pope in all ecclesiastical and secular matters.

Born

Date of birth saved

• February 15 : Ivan Ivanovich the Young , Russian Grand Duke († 1490 )
• March 18 : Peter Offenburg , Mayor of Basel († 1514 )
• April 9 : Camilla Battista Varano , Italian clarissess and mystic († 1524 )
• April 13th : Johann II , Duke of Kleve and Count von der Mark († 1521 )
• April 19 : Alessandro Cinuzzi , Italian page († 1474 )
• April 23 : Georg von Gemmingen , Canon in Worms and Speyer, as well as Vicar General of the Principality of Speyer († 1511 )
• May 2 : Eleanor of Portugal , Queen of Portugal (as wife, not as regent in her own right) († 1525 )

• July 1 : Matthäus von Pappenheim , German humanist, historian, genealogist and canon († 1541 )
• July 9 : Friedrich IV , non-ruling Margrave of Baden and Bishop of Utrecht († 1517 )
• July 11th : Kaspar , Count Palatine and Duke of Pfalz-Zweibrücken († 1527 )
• July 28 : Jacopo Sannazaro , Italian poet († 1530 )
• August 18 : Lorenzo Pucci , Italian cardinal († 1531 )

• October 3 : Casimir of Poland , Polish and Lithuanian national saint († 1484 )
• October 16 : Adolf von Anhalt-Zerbst , Catholic Bishop of Merseburg († 1526 )
• October 31 : Wolfgang von Polheim , Austrian nobleman, captain and regent in the Lower Austrian provinces († 1512 )

Exact date of birth unknown

• Christoph Beyer , German chronicler († 1518 )
• Pietro Bonomo , Bishop of Trieste and Vienna († 1546 )
• Guillaume II. De Croÿ , Burgundian politician († 1521 )
• Cornelis von Glymes von Bergen , Burgundian nobleman and military man († 1509 )
• Kim Jeon , Korean politician and neo-Confucian philosopher and poet († 1523 )
• Pietro di Francesco Orioli , Italian painter († 1496 )
• Caesar Pflugk , Saxon nobleman, bailiff and manor owner († 1524 )
• Reinhard von Rüppurr , Prince-Bishop of Worms († 1533 )
• Christian Studer , Swiss businessman and mayor († 1531)
• Anton Tucher , Nuremberg merchant and patron († 1524 )

Born around 1458

• 1457/58 : Alexander Agricola , Franco-Flemish composer, singer and instrumentalist († 1506 )

Died

First half of the year

• January 14th : Anna von Plauen , Abbess of Quedlinburg (* before 1435 )
• January 17th : Ludwig I , Landgrave of Hesse (* 1402 )
• February 19 : Johann , titular Count of Freiburg, Count of Neuchâtel and Lord of Badenweiler (* 1396 )
• February 20 : Lazar Branković , Serbian despot (ruler)

• March 6 : Friedrich Reiser , German Hussite and Waldensian (* around 1401 )
• March 11th : Euthymius II , Archbishop of Novgorod and Pskov

Sarcophagus by Antoine de Vaudémont in the Église des Cordeliers in Nancy

• March 22nd : Antoine , Count of Vaudémont and Lord of Joinville (* around 1400 )

Iñigo López de Mendoza

• March 25 : Iñigo López de Mendoza , Marqués de Santillana, Spanish statesman and poet (* 1398 )
• April 28th : Matthäus Hagen , German Waldensian preacher

• May 6th / 7th : Arnold von Rotberg , Prince-Bishop of Basel (* around 1394 )
• May 14 : Juan de Segovia , Spanish theologian and representative of conciliarism (* around 1395 )
• May 20 : Leonhard Wismair , Bishop of Chur (* around 1400 )
• May 21 : Petr Aksamit z Lidéřovic a Kosova , Czech country gentleman and army leader (* around 1400 )
• May 29 : Hermann von Sachsenheim , German poet (* around 1365 )

Tomb of Alfonso V

• June 27 : Alfonso V , the Magnanimous, King of Aragón, Naples and Sicily (* 1396 )

Second half of the year

• July 8 : Gottfried Lange , Bishop of Schwerin (* around 1425 )
• July 14th : Domenico Capranica , Italian cardinal (* 1400 )
• July 15 : . Bernhard II , Margrave of Baden, patron saint of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Freiburg (* 1428 / 1429 )

• August 6th : Alonso de Borja, under the name Calixt III. Pope (* 1378 )
• August 18 : Wilhelm IV of Angelach-Angelach , German Imperial Knight
• September 26th : Pedro Luis de Borja , Aragonese nobleman, member of the Borgia family (* 1432 )

• October 21 : Peter of Savoy , Archbishop of Tarentaise and Bishop of Geneva (* around 1440 )
• November 21 : Andrieu d'Humières , Burgundian nobleman and military man
• December 26th : Arthur III. , Connétable of France and Duke of Brittany (* 1393 )

Exact date of death unknown

• Magdalena Beutler , Catholic mystic (* 1407 )
• Domenico Gattilusio , Archon of Lesbos and Thasos (* around 1415 )
• John II , King of Cyprus and Titular King of Jerusalem and Armenia

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