1456

Year 1456 (MCDLVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1456 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1456
MCDLVI
Ab urbe condita2209
Armenian calendar905
ԹՎ ՋԵ
Assyrian calendar6206
Balinese saka calendar1377–1378
Bengali calendar863
Berber calendar2406
English Regnal year34 Hen. 6  35 Hen. 6
Buddhist calendar2000
Burmese calendar818
Byzantine calendar6964–6965
Chinese calendar乙亥年 (Wood Pig)
4153 or 3946
     to 
丙子年 (Fire Rat)
4154 or 3947
Coptic calendar1172–1173
Discordian calendar2622
Ethiopian calendar1448–1449
Hebrew calendar5216–5217
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1512–1513
 - Shaka Samvat1377–1378
 - Kali Yuga4556–4557
Holocene calendar11456
Igbo calendar456–457
Iranian calendar834–835
Islamic calendar860–861
Japanese calendarKōshō 2
(康正2年)
Javanese calendar1371–1372
Julian calendar1456
MCDLVI
Korean calendar3789
Minguo calendar456 before ROC
民前456年
Nanakshahi calendar−12
Thai solar calendar1998–1999
Tibetan calendar阴木猪年
(female Wood-Pig)
1582 or 1201 or 429
     to 
阳火鼠年
(male Fire-Rat)
1583 or 1202 or 430

Events

JanuaryDecember

  • May 18 Second Battle of Oronichea (1456): Ottoman Forces of 15,000 are sent to capture Albania, but are met and swiftly defeated by Skanderbeg's smaller forces.
  • June 9 Halley's Comet makes an appearance, as noted by the humanist scholar Platina.
  • July 7 A retrial of Joan of Arc acquits her of heresy, 25 years after her execution.
  • July 22 Battle of Nándorfehérvár (Belgrade): The Hungarians under John Hunyadi rout the Turkish army of Sultan Mehmed II. The noon bell ordered by Pope Callixtus III commemorates the victory throughout the Christian world (and hence is still rung).
  • August 20 Vladislav II, reigning Prince of Wallachia, is killed in hand-to-hand combat by Vlad the Impaler, who succeeds him.
  • October 17 The University of Greifswald is established, making it the second oldest university in Northern Europe. Due to border changes, from 1648 to 1815 it was the oldest in Sweden, and from 1815 to 1945 the oldest in Prussia.
  • December 5 Two earthquakes in central Italy kills 12,000–70,000 people.[1]

Date unknown

  • The fifth Mersenne prime, 8191, was discovered.[2]

Births

  • March Jan Łaski, Polish nobleman (d. 1531)
  • March 1 Vladislaus II, king of Bohemia, Hungary and Croatia (d. 1516)
  • June 11 Anne Neville, queen consort of Richard III of England (d. 1485)[3]
  • June 23 Margaret of Denmark, Queen of Scotland, consort of James III of Scotland (d. 1486)[4]
  • June 25 Henry V of Rosenberg, Bohemian nobleman (d. 1489)
  • October 16 Ludmila of Poděbrady, Regent of the duchies of Brzeg and Oława from 1488 (d. 1503)
  • November 7 Margaret of Bavaria, Electress Palatine and hereditary princess of Bavaria-Landshut (d. 1501)
  • November 8 Queen Gonghye, Korean royal consort (d. 1474)
  • date unknown
    • Jeanne Hachette (Laisné), French peasant heroine
    • Antonia di Paolo di Dono, Italian artist and daughter of Paolo di Dono (d. 1491)
    • Jan Lubrański, Polish bishop (d. 1520)

Deaths

  • January 17 Elisabeth of Lorraine-Vaudémont, French translator (b. 1395)
  • August 11 John Hunyadi, Hungarian statesman and military leader (b. c. 1406)[5]
  • August 20 Vladislav II of Wallachia
  • October 17 Nicolas Grenon, French composer (b. 1375)
  • October 23 Giovanni da Capistrano, Italian saint (b. 1386)
  • November 3 Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond, father of King Henry VII of England (b. 1431)[6]
  • November 9 Ulrich II, Count of Celje (b. 1406)
  • November 25 Jacques Cœur, French merchant (b. 1395)
  • December 4 Charles I, Duke of Bourbon (b. 1401)
  • December 24 Đurađ Branković, Despot of Serbia (b. 1377)
  • date unknown Juan de Mena, Spanish poet (b. 1411)

References

  1. C. Nunziata; M. R. Costanzo (2020). "Ground Shaking Scenario at the Historical Center of Napoli (Southern Italy) for the 1456 and 1688 Earthquakes". Pure and Applied Geophysics. 177 (7). Springer Science+Business Media: 3175–3190. Bibcode:2020PApGe.177.3175N. doi:10.1007/s00024-020-02426-y. S2CID 210975336.
  2. "List of known Mersenne prime numbers - PrimeNet". www.mersenne.org. Retrieved December 14, 2022.
  3. Cannon, John; Hargreaves, Anne (2009). The Kings and Queens of Britain. OUP Oxford. p. 246. ISBN 9780191580284.
  4. "Margaret of Denmark: Biography on Undiscovered Scotland". www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk. Retrieved May 14, 2019.
  5. Kenneth Meyer Setton (1976). The Papacy and the Levant, 1204-1571. American Philosophical Society. p. 183. ISBN 978-0-87169-127-9.
  6. Miranda Jane Aldhouse-Green; Ralph Alan Griffiths; Raymond Howell; Tony Hopkins (2004). The Gwent County History: The age of the Marcher Lords, c.1070-1536. University of Wales Press. p. 265. ISBN 978-0-7083-2072-3.
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