1456

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1420s  1430s  1440s  – 1450s –  1460s  1470s  1480s
Years:	1453 1454 1455 – 1456 – 1457 1458 1459

1456 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology – Architecture –

Art – Literature – Music – Science

Leaders:   State leaders – Colonial governors

Category: Establishments – Disestablishments

Births – Deaths – Works

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

Contents 1 Events of 1456 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 1456 Year Equivalents

Events of 1456

• May 18 – Second Battle of Oronichea (1456): Ottoman forces of 15,000 went to capture Albania but was met and swiftly defeated by Skanderbeg's smaller force.
• June 9 – Halley's Comet made an appearance, as noted by the humanist scholar Platina.
• July 7 – A retrial acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death.
• July 21–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 (hence the noon bell is still rung to this day).
• August 20 – Vladislav II, reigning Prince of Wallachia, is killed in battle by Vlad III Dracula, who succeeds him.
• Lazar Branković becomes king of Serbia.
• October 17 – The 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.
• Muscovy and Novgorod Republic conclude the Treaty of Yazhelbitsy.

1456 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1456 MCDLVI
Ab urbe condita	2209
Armenian calendar	905 ԹՎ ՋԵ
Bahá'í calendar	-388 – -387
Bengali calendar	863
Berber calendar	2406
Buddhist calendar	2000
Burmese calendar	818
Byzantine calendar	6964 – 6965
Chinese calendar	乙亥年十一月廿四日 (4092/4152-11-24) — to — 丙子年十二月初五日 (4093/4153-12-5)
Coptic calendar	1172 – 1173
Ethiopian calendar	1448 – 1449
Hebrew calendar	5216 – 5217
Hindu calendars
- Bikram Samwat	1512 – 1513
- Shaka Samvat	1378 – 1379
- Kali Yuga	4557 – 4558
Holocene calendar	11456
Iranian calendar	834 – 835
Islamic calendar	860 – 861
Japanese calendar	Kōshō 2 (康正2年)
Korean calendar	3789
Thai solar calendar	1999

Births

• March – Jan Łaski, Polish nobleman (d. 1531)
• March 1 – King Ladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary (d. 1516)
• June 11 – Anne Neville, queen of Richard III of England (d. 1485)
• June 23 – Margaret of Denmark, queen of James III of Scotland (d. 1486)
• date unknown – Jan Lubrański, Polish bishop (d. 1520)

Deaths

• May 24 – Ambroise de Loré, French military leader (b. 1396)
• August 11 – John Hunyadi, Transylvanian statesman and general (b. 1387)
• October 17 – Nicolas Grenon, French composer
• October 23 – Giovanni da Capistrano, Italian saint (b. 1386)
• November 1 – Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond, father of King Henry VII of England
• November 9 – Ulrich II of Celje (b. 1406)
• November 25 – Jacques Cœur, French merchant
• December 4 – Charles I, Duke of Bourbon (b. 1401)
• date unknown
• Juan de Mena, Spanish poet (b. 1411)

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,
• Hebrew calendar,

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

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