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{{C15 year in topic}}Year 1458 (MCDLVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1458th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 458th year of the 2nd millennium, the 58th year of the 15th century, and the 9th year of the 1450s decade.

Events

= January–December =

  • January 24 – Matthias Corvinus becomes king of Hungary, at age 14.{{cite book|author=John P. C. Matthews|title=Explosion: The Hungarian Revolution of 1956|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fCyh3zIlkbsC&pg=PA74|year=2007|publisher=Hippocrene Books|isbn=978-0-7818-1174-3|pages=74}}
  • February 27 – George of Poděbrady is elected king of Bohemia.{{cite web|title=George of Poděbrady|url=https://timenote.info/en/George-of-Podbrady|website=Time-Note|accessdate=2024-12-27}}
  • March 25 – The Loveday is staged in London, by which Henry VI of England attempts to unite the warring factions who have triggered the Wars of the Roses.{{cite book|author=David Grummitt|title=Henry VI|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aOcjCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA190|date=8 May 2015|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-317-48260-4|pages=190}}
  • June – Francesco II Acciaioli, last Duke of Athens, surrenders the city to the Ottoman Empire and Sultan Mehmed II enters peacefully in August. Ottoman authorities issue a decree to protect the Acropolis.{{Cite book|publisher=Macmillan|location=New York|first= Martin Luther|last=D'Ooge|title=The Acropolis of Athens|year=1909|quote=In 1458 the Turkish ruler occupied the Propylaea as a residence, and turned the Erechtheum into a harem, restoring, however, the Parthenon to the Greeks as a place of worship.|ol=7107840M}}
  • July 15 – Magdalen College, Oxford, is founded.{{cite web|url= http://www.magd.ox.ac.uk/discover-magdalen/history-of-college|title= College History| publisher=magd.ox.ac.uk|access-date=March 22, 2019}}
  • August 19 – Pope Pius II succeeds Callixtus III, as the 210th pope.{{cite book|author=Jan L. de Jong|title=The Power and the Glorification: Papal Pretensions and the Art of Propaganda in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cAJywP5rVK8C&pg=PA4|date=April 5, 2013|publisher=Penn State Press|isbn=978-0-271-06237-2|pages=4}}
  • October 24 – King Afonso V of Portugal conquers Ksar es-Seghir, in North Africa.{{cite news|last=Vasconcelos e Sousa|first=Bernardo|title=História de Portugal|edition=4th|page=182|language=pt}}

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  • The Jewish community is expelled from Erfurt (Germany); their houses are sold, and the synagogue turned into an arsenal.{{cite news|last=Lemaître|first=Frédéric|title=Erfurt, ses juifs et l'UNESCO|url=http://www.lemonde.fr/europe/article/2011/09/19/erfurt-ses-juifs-et-l-unesco_1574328_3214.html|access-date=September 19, 2011|newspaper=Le Monde|date=September 19, 2011|language=fr}}
  • Moctezuma I, Tlatoani of Tenochtitlán, leads an expedition to the city-state Coixtlahuaca in Mixtec territory, but is defeated.
  • A major volcano erupts.{{cite news|first=Steve|last=Connor|title=The history of the planet's biggest volcanic explosions – deep in the ice of Antarctica|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/the-history-of-the-planets-biggest-volcanic-explosions--deep-in-the-ice-of-antarctica-9587991.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/the-history-of-the-planets-biggest-volcanic-explosions--deep-in-the-ice-of-antarctica-9587991.html |archive-date=May 1, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|newspaper=The Independent|location=London|date=July 7, 2014|access-date=July 7, 2014}}{{cbignore}}

Births

  • February 15 – Ivan the Young, Ruler of Tver (d. 1490)
  • April 9 – Camilla Battista da Varano, Italian saint (d. 1524){{cite book|author=Saint Camilla Battista da Varano|title=The Mental Sorrows of Jesus in His Passion|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ejlxAAAAMAAJ|year=1986|publisher=Peregrina|isbn=978-0-920669-05-1|page=3}}
  • April 13 – John II, Duke of Cleves (d. 1521){{Cite encyclopedia |date=November 21, 1881 |title=Johann II. (Herzog von Kleve-Mark) |encyclopedia=Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie |url=https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/ADB:Johann_II._(Herzog_von_Kleve-Mark |access-date=March 31, 2021 |last=Harleß |first=Woldemar |page=210}}
  • May 2 – Eleanor of Viseu, Portuguese princess and later Queen of Portugal (d. 1525){{cite book|author1=Anne Commire|author2=Deborah Klezmer|title=Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iEQOAQAAMAAJ|year=2000|publisher=Yorkin Publications|isbn=978-0-7876-4064-4|page=107}}
  • July 28 – Jacopo Sannazaro, Italian poet (d. 1530){{cite book|author1=William John Kennedy|author2=Gene Z. Hanrahan|title=Jacopo Sannazaro and the Uses of Pastoral|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pEJdAAAAMAAJ|year=1983|publisher=University Press of New England|isbn=978-0-87451-268-7}}
  • August 18 – Lorenzo Pucci, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1531)
  • October 3 – Saint Casimir, Prince of Poland and Duke of Lithuania (d. 1484){{cite book|author=Paul Burns|title=Butler's Saint for the Day|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KGKtAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA103|date=July 15, 2007|publisher=A&C Black|isbn=978-0-86012-434-4|pages=103}}
  • October 16 – Adolph II, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen, German prince (d. 1526)
  • December 25 – Amago Tsunehisa, Japanese warlord (d. 1541)
  • probable
  • Thomas Docwra, Grand Prior of the English Knights Hospitaller (d. 1527)
  • Jacob Obrecht, Dutch composer (d. 1505)

Deaths

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