Major Events
- May 12 Jodhpur, Sun City, founded by Rao Jodhpur in India
- Jun 1 Pope Pius II opens the Council of Mantua to call for a new crusade against the Ottoman Empire - crusade never amounts to much (Council disbanded January 1560)
- Sep 23 Battle of Blore Heath in Staffordshire, 1st major battle of the English Wars of the Roses
- Oct 12 Battle at Ludford Bridge: Richard of York defeated
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Who Died in 1459
- Mar 3 Ausiàs March, Catalan poet of Valencian literature, dies at 59
- May 2 Pierozzi Antoninus, Italian archbishop of Florence/saint, dies
- Oct 18 Jan of Heinsberg, bishop of Luik (1419-56), dies
- Oct 30 Poggio Bracciolini, Italian humanist, who rediscovered lost classical texts, dies at 79
- Dec 4 Adolf VIII, Duke of Southern Jutland (b. 1401)
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