Major Events
- Mar 1 The Unitas Fratrum is established in the village of Kunvald, on the Bohemian-Moravian borderland. It is to date the second oldest Protestant denomination.
- Aug 14 Oldest known exactly dated printed book (c 3 years after Gutenberg)
- Aug 15 Earliest dated book, "Mainz Psalter," completed, 1st to be printed in three colours
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Who Died in 1457
- Mar 14 Jingtai, 7th Emperor of the Ming dynasty of China (1449-57), dies at 28
- May 22 Saint Rita of Cascia, Italian saint (b. 1381)
- Aug 1 Laurentius Valla, Italian philosopher (Voluptate), dies at about 50
- Nov 23 Ladislaus V ("the Posthumus"), Árpád dynasty and King of Bohemia (1453-57), King of Hungary and Croatia (1440-44), and Duke of Austria (1440-57), dies at 17
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