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Calendar year
Year 1459 (
MCDLIX) was a
common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the
Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
Date unknown
- The
Wallachian town of
Bucharest is first mentioned.
[2]
- 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.
[3] The Irish Parliament, meeting at
Drogheda, upholds his authority against
Henry VI, and an English Act of
Attainder.
-
Richard Hygons, English composer, begins fifty years of service at
Wells Cathedral.
Religion
Births
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January 25 –
Paul Hofhaimer, Austrian organist and composer (d.
1537)
-
March 2 –
Pope Adrian VI (d.
1523)
[4]
-
March 6 –
Jakob Fugger, German banker (d.
1525)
-
March 22 –
Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (d.
1519)
[5]
-
May 15 –
John I, Count Palatine of Simmern (1480–1509) (d.
1509)
-
July –
Mingyi Nyo, founder of the Toungoo Dynasty of Burma (Myanmar) (d.
1530)
-
July 11 –
Kaspar, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, German nobleman (d.
1527)
-
October 6 –
Martin Behaim, German explorer and cartographer (d.
1507)
-
December 22 –
Sultan Cem, pretender to the Ottoman throne (d.
1495)
-
December 27 – King
John I Albert of Poland (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)
- date unknown –
Jheronimus de Clibano, Dutch composer (d.
1503)
- date unknown –
Jean Mouton, French composer (d.
1522)
Deaths
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February 14 –
Stephen, Count Palatine of Simmern-Zweibrücken (b.
1385)
-
March 3 –
Ausiàs March, Catalan poet from Valencia (b.
1397)
-
May 2 –
Antoninus of Florence, Italian archbishop (b.
1389)
-
August 27 –
James of Portugal, Portuguese cardinal (b.
1433)
-
September 6 –
Katharina of Nassau-Beilstein, German regent
-
September 17 –
Isabella of Urgell, Duchess of Coimbra, Portuguese Duchess (b.
1409)
-
September 23 (killed at the
Battle of Blore Heath):
-
September 24 –
Eric of Pomerania, King of Norway, Denmark and Sweden (b.
1382)
-
October 30 –
Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini, Italian humanist (b.
1380)
-
November 5 –
John Fastolf, English soldier
[6]
-
December 4 –
Adolf VIII, Duke of Southern Jutland (b.
1401)
References
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^ John Sadler (January 14, 2014).
The Red Rose and the White: The Wars of the Roses, 1453-1487. Taylor & Francis. p. 86.
ISBN
978-1-317-90517-2.
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^ Sonnenburg, Stephan; Baker, Laura (February 26, 2013).
Branded Spaces: Experience Enactments and Entanglements. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 236.
ISBN
978-3-658-01561-9.
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^ The Oxford Illustrated History of Ireland. Foster, RF. Oxford University Press, Oxford. 1989
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^
"Adrian VI | pope". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved March 20, 2021.
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^
"Maximilian I | Holy Roman emperor". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved March 20, 2021.
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^ James Gairdner (1895).
The Paston letters, 1422-1509 A.D.: A new ed. containing upwards of four hundred letters, etc., hitherto unpublished. A. Constable. p. 444.