1458

This page relates to the year 1458 Calendrier Julien.

Events

Died of the last Ethiopian bishop. Zara Yacoub having made imprison the envoy of the sultan Mameluke, the Egyptian sovereign in reprisals had made coil blow the patriarch of Alexandria and had prevented from naming the bishops in Ethiopia. Ethiopia is unable itself to have new priests until in 1480.

In February, a catastrophic flood recovers the valley of the the Loire in Anjou.

Beginning of the reign of Jean II (1398 - 1479), king of Aragon.
Beginning of the reign of Ferdinand Ier or Shoeing (1423 - 1494), king of Naples (fine in 1494). It continues the work of restoration undertaken by his father. It must push back an attempt at invasion of Rene of Anjou.

Pie II (Enea Silvio Piccolomini) makes an agreement with Calixte III Borgia which withdraws with Civitavecchia little time before its death.

August 28th: The duke of Alençon is judged by the court of Paris and is condemned to death; the execution of the sentence is differed by royal order and it is locked up with the castle of Loches. The duchy of Alençon is annexed to the royal field.
December 26th: François II (1435 - 1488) becomes duke of Brittany.

January 24th: Mathias Ier Corvin, wire junior by Jean Hunyadi is elected king of Hungary by the tycoons (Magyar minor nobility) at the 17 years age in spite of the strong opposition of the partisans of the emperor Frederic III (fine in 1490). It sets up several great administrative reforms and judicaires, created an army and develops the nation on the commercial plan and cultural.
February 20th: Died without heirs ready to reign of the Serb despot Georges Brankovic.

the voièvode of Transylvania Mihály Szilágyi projects a new crusade against the Turks to attach the remainders of the despotat to the Hungary, in particular Belgrade and Semendria (Smederevo). Furious of this initiative, Mathias Corvin dislocates his uncle of his functions of governor of Hungary (June).
the widow of the despot, Helene Paleologist, and his/her son Stépan the Blind man, in favor of alliance with Hungary, opposes to the chief of the army, to Michel Angelovic, to brother of the Othoman vizier Mahmoud Pasha. Angelovic is arrested and imprisoned in Hungary, which causes the reaction of the sultan. Mahmoud Pasha walks on the Danube and occupies the majority of the still free Serb fortresses but saving Semendria (August) and is folded up on Kosovo. It would have been pushed back by the Wallachians with Turnu Severin after having passed the the Danube.

March 2nd: Georges de Poděbrady, chief of the utraquists, is elected king of Bohemia (fine in 1471). It starts negotiations with the Holy See. The intransigent pope dispossesses it of his kingdom and fact call to Mathias Corvin of Hungary (1465).
June: Mathias Corvin decides to marry Catherine, the girl of Georges de Poděbrady, rather than that of palatine the Garai, one of the assassins of his brother. He dislocates this last of his functions as well as the other barons of his clan and even his own uncle Szilágyi. This one joined the conspiracy of the clan Parked-Ujlaki (July 26th), a score of baron which elects king de Hongrie the emperor Frederic III (February 17th 1459). This one fails because Mathias sends against entreated the 36 barons and 12 prelates who end up having the top.

Mathias Corvin, formed with the image of the Italian princes by the humanistic ones like Jean Vités, inserts the Hungary in the Renaissance. Opened to the letters and arts, it invites at its court of the well-read men and the Italian artists such Antonio Bonfini, Marzio Galeotto, Ugoletto or Bartolomeo Della Fonte. It creates a library of 2500 manuscripts, the Bibliotheca Corviniana .

Ballade of the proverbs of François Villon.
Nicolas of CUSE is seen entrusting work of ecclesiastical administration to Rome, where he plays a very important part.

Invention of the driving Spring, in clock industry, allowing the appearance of the first watches.

In Hungary, practical Mathias Corvin a centralizing policy by setting up a taxation intended to continue the fight against the Othoman , by developing the cities which escape the barons to pass under the protection of the king.

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