1459

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Years: 1456 1457 1458 - 1459 - 1460 1461 1462

Decades: 1420s 1430s 1440s - 1450s - 1460s 1470s 1480s

Centuries: 14th century - 15th century - 16th century

Events

• 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.
• 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)
• Cem, pretender to the Ottoman throne (died 1495)
• Lorenzo di Credi, Florentine painter and sculptor (died 1537)
• Edward Poyning, Lord Deputy to King Henry VII of England (died 1521)

Deaths

• March 3 - Ausiàs March, Catalan poet (b. 1397)
• October 30 - Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini, Italian humanist (born 1380)
• December 4 - Adolf VIII, Duke of Southern Jutland (b. 1401)
• James Tuchet, 5th Baron Audley (born 1400)
• Eric of Pomerania, King of Norway, Denmark and Sweden (born 1382)
• John Fastolf, English soldier