This page relates to the year 1459 Calendrier Julien.

Events

Africa

• the duke of Milan Francesco Sforza sends without result a letter to the Négus of Ethiopia Zara Yacoub to ask to him whether it preserved works, unknown in Europe, of Solomon his ancestor, to send them to him to translate them into Latin.

Asia

• India: Beginning of the reign of Mahmûd Shâh, sultan of the Gujerat (fine in 1511). The sultanate of Gujerat reaches its maximum territorial expansion.

Europe

• February: Crowning of the duke François II of Brittany to Rennes.
• March 25th: To counter the interior opposition, Vlad Tepes, prince of Valachie, would have made impale many Wallachian lords (500 people, according to the contemporaries) at the time of a banquet with Targoviste Easter Sunday. It replaces them by its faithful.
• April 4th: Peace between Etienne III Large the of Moldavie and envoys of Casimir IV of Poland. Etienne recognizes the transfer of Khotin to the Poland. Its candidate Pierre Aron, given up by Poland, takes refuge in Transylvania (1460 - 1461) where Etienne will track it to capture it to make it decapitate in December 1470.
• June 1st: beginning of the council of Mantoue which decides the resumption of the crusade against the Turks the September 26th. The civil war in Hungary between the partisans of the emperor Frederic III and Mathias Corvin compromises the realization of it.
• September 20th: First mention of Bucharest.
• Vlad Dracula makes build a princely residence ( curte ) with Bucharest (1459 - 1465). It strikes one ducat of money of 0,60 G. intended to pay the mercenaries for defense against the Turks, then withdraws their commercial privileges in Valachie with the Saxon merchants of Brasov, which starts tensions with the Hungary.
• September 23rd: Battle of Blore Heath in the War of the Two-Pinks in England. Victoire of the House of York on the House of Lancaster.
• October 12th: Richard of York flees in Ireland.
• November 12th: Foundation of the University of Basle, by a bubble of the Pope Black and white II, intended to compete with the Université of Freiburg-in-Brisgau, that had just created two years before the duke of Austria Albert VI, with which sovereign pontiff was in argument.

• nonwell informed or unknown Dates :
• the Othoman Turks seize the Serbia of Smederevo.
• a synod of the Russian Church condemns Gregoire, métropolite Kiev. The Russian church is divided. The synod recognizes with the sovereign of Moscow the right to confirm the métropolite elected by the bishops.

Sciences and technology

• April 24th: The Map of the world representing the Old world by the monk camaldule FRA Mauro and supplemented.

Art & culture

• Andrea Mantegna accepts the invitation of the family Gonzague, with Mantoue, and remains there as a painter of court until his death.

Births in 1459

Death in 1459

• October 30th: Poggio Bracciolini, known as Pogge , Humanistic Italian. (° February 11th 1380).

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