1456

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Contents 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 1456 Year Equivalents

Events

• July 7 - Joan of Arc acquitted (but she had already been executed).
• July 21 - July 22. Battle of Belgrade. The Hungarians under John Hunyadi rout the Turkish army of Sultan Mehmed II
• August 20 - Vladislav II, reigning Prince of Wallachia is killed in battle by Vlad III Dracula who succeeds him.
• Lazar Brankovic becomes king of Serbia.
• The university of Greifswald, later Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald is established, making it the second oldest university in northern Europe (also for a period the oldest in Sweden, and Prussia)
• Luigi de Cadamosto discovers the Cape Verde islands.
• Emperor Zara Yaqob of Ethiopia founds the city of Debre Berhan

Births

• March 1 - King Ladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary (died 1516)
• June 11 - Anne Neville, queen of Richard III of England (died 1485)
• June 23 - Margaret of Denmark, queen of James III of Scotland (died 1486)
• Jan Laski, Polish nobleman (died 1531)
• Jan Lubranski, Polish bishop (died 1520)

Deaths

• May 24 - Ambroise de Loré, French military leader (b. 1396)
• August 11 - John Hunyadi, Transylvanian statesman and general
• October 23 - Giovanni da Capistrano, Italian saint (born 1386)
• November 1 - Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond, father of King Henry VII of England
• November 25 - Jacques Cœur, French merchant
• Charles I, Duke of Bourbon (born 1401)
• Ulrich III of Celje (born 1406)
• Nicolas Grenon, French composer
• Juan de Mena, Spanish poet (born 1411)
• Vittore Pisano, Italian medallist

1456 Year Equivalents

• Hindu Calendar, (March 14, 1399 - March 13, 1400) ¹
• Hindu Calendar, (March 21/22, 1529 - March 20/21, 1530)²
• Islamic Calendar,
• Jewish Calendar,

¹:Calculated from AD 78, beginning of the Saka era.

²:Calculated from 58 BC, beginning of the Vikrama era.af:1456

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