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 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology – Architecture –

Art – Literature – Music – Science

Leaders:   State leaders – Colonial governors

Category: Establishments – Disestablishments

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

[edit] Events of 1458

• January 24 – Matthias I 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 Al Kasr Ceger in North Africa.
• Magdalen College, University of Oxford is founded.
• George of Podebrady 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.

1458 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1458 MCDLVIII
Ab urbe condita	2211
Armenian calendar	907 ԹՎ ՋԷ
Bahá'í calendar	-386 – -385
Bengali calendar	865
Berber calendar	2408
Buddhist calendar	2002
Burmese calendar	820
Byzantine calendar	6966 – 6967
Chinese calendar	丁丑年十二月十六日 (4094/4154-12-16) — to — 戊寅年十一月廿六日 (4095/4155-11-26)
Coptic calendar	1174 – 1175
Ethiopian calendar	1450 – 1451
Hebrew calendar	5218 – 5219
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1513 – 1514
- Shaka Samvat	1380 – 1381
- Kali Yuga	4559 – 4560
Holocene calendar	11458
Iranian calendar	836 – 837
Islamic calendar	862 – 863
Japanese calendar	Chōroku 2 (長禄2年)
Korean calendar	3791
Thai solar calendar	2001
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[edit] Births

• February 15 – Ivan the Young, Ruler of Tver (d. 1490)
• May 2 – Leonor of Viseu, Princess and later Queen of Portugal (d. 1525)
• May 25 – Mahmud Begada, Sultan of Gujarat (d. 1511)
• October 3 – Saint Casimir, Prince of Poland and Duke of Lithuania (d. 1484)
• 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)

[edit] Deaths

• February 20 – Lazar Branković, Despot of Serbia
• March 25 – Íñigo López de Mendoza, marqués de Santillana, Spanish poet (b. 1398)
• June 27 – King Alfonso V of Aragon (b. 1396)
• August 6 – Pope Callixtus III (b. 1378)
• December 26 – Arthur III, Duke of Brittany (b. 1393)
• date unknown
  • John II of Cyprus
  • James Douglas, 3rd Earl of Morton
  • Isabelle Romée, mother of Joan of Arc