1458

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1420s  1430s  1440s  – 1450s –  1460s  1470s  1480s
Years:	1455 1456 1457 – 1458 – 1459 1460 1461

1458 by topic
Arts and science
Architecture - Art
Politics
State leaders - Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births - Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments - Disestablishments
Art and literature
1458 in poetry

1458 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1458 MCDLVIII
Ab urbe condita	2211
Armenian calendar	907 ԹՎ ՋԷ
Assyrian calendar	6208
Bengali calendar	865
Berber calendar	2408
English Regnal year	36 Hen. 6 – 37 Hen. 6
Buddhist calendar	2002
Burmese calendar	820
Byzantine calendar	6966–6967
Chinese calendar	丁丑年 (Fire Ox) 4154 or 4094     — to — 戊寅年 (Earth Tiger) 4155 or 4095
Coptic calendar	1174–1175
Discordian calendar	2624
Ethiopian calendar	1450–1451
Hebrew calendar	5218–5219
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1514–1515
- Shaka Samvat	1380–1381
- Kali Yuga	4559–4560
Holocene calendar	11458
Igbo calendar	458–459
Iranian calendar	836–837
Islamic calendar	862–863
Japanese calendar	Chōroku 2 (長禄２年)
Julian calendar	1458 MCDLVIII
Korean calendar	3791
Minguo calendar	454 before ROC 民前454年
Thai solar calendar	2000–2001

Year 1458 (MCDLVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

• January 24 – Matthias Corvinus becomes king of Hungary.
• August 19 – Pope Pius II succeeds Pope Callixtus III as the 210th pope.
• October 24 – King Afonso V of Portugal conquers Ksar es-Seghir in North Africa.^[1]

Date unknown

• Magdalen College, Oxford, is founded.
• George of Poděbrady becomes king of Bohemia.
• Luis Cadamosto discovers the first Cape Verde Islands.
• The Turks issue a decree to protect the Acropolis after they conquer Athens.^[2]
• The Jewish community is expelled from Erfurt (Germany), their houses are sold and the synagogue turned into an arsenal.^[3]
• Major volcanic eruption from the Kuwae caldera in the Pacific Ocean.^[4]

Births

• February 15 – Ivan the Young, Ruler of Tver (d. 1490)
• April 9
  • Baptista Varani, Italian beatified abbess (d. 1527)
  • Camilla Battista da Varano, Italian saint (d. 1524)
• April 13 – John II, Duke of Cleves (d. 1521)
• May 2 – Eleanor of Viseu, Portuguese Princess and later Queen of Portugal (d. 1525)
• May 25 – Mahmud Begada, Sultan of Gujarat (d. 1511)
• August 18 – Lorenzo Pucci, Catholic cardinal (d. 1531)
• October 3 – Saint Casimir, Prince of Poland and Duke of Lithuania (d. 1484)
• October 16 – Adolph II, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen, German prince (d. 1526)
• November 22 – Jacob Obrecht, Dutch composer (d. 1505)
• date unknown
  • Jacopo Sannazaro, Italian poet (d. 1530)
  • Amago Tsunehisa, Japanese warlord (d. 1541)
• probable
  • Thomas Docwra, Grand Prior of the English Knights Hospitaller (d. 1527)
  • Richard Grey, half brother of Edward V of England (d. 1483)

Deaths

• February 20 – Lazar Branković, Despot of Serbia
• March 25 – Íñigo López de Mendoza, 1st Marquis of Santillana, Spanish poet (b. 1398)
• June 27 – King Alfonso V of Aragon (b. 1396)
• July 28 – John II of Cyprus
• August 6 – Pope Callixtus III (b. 1378)
• December 26 – Arthur III, Duke of Brittany (b. 1393)
• date unknown – Isabelle Romée, mother of Joan of Arc

References

1. Vasconcelos e Sousa, Bernardo. "História de Portugal" (in Portuguese) (4th ed.). p. 182.
2. Martin Luther D'Ooge (1909), The Acropolis of Athens (The acropolis of Athens ed.), New York: Macmillan, 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.
3. Lemaître, Frédéric (19 September 2011). "Erfurt, ses juifs et l'UNESCO". Le Monde (in French). Retrieved 19 September 2011.
4. Connor, Steve (2014-07-07). "The history of the planet's biggest volcanic explosions - deep in the ice of Antarctica". The Independent (London). Retrieved 2014-07-07.