1459

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century 15th century 16th century
Decades:	1430s 1440s 1450s 1460s 1470s
Years:	1456 1457 1458 1459 1460 1461 1462

1459 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1459 MCDLIX
Ab urbe condita	2212
Armenian calendar	908 ԹՎ ՋԸ
Assyrian calendar	6209
Balinese saka calendar	1380–1381
Bengali calendar	866
Berber calendar	2409
English Regnal year	37 Hen. 6 – 38 Hen. 6
Buddhist calendar	2003
Burmese calendar	821
Byzantine calendar	6967–6968
Chinese calendar	戊寅年 (Earth Tiger) 4156 or 3949     — to — 己卯年 (Earth Rabbit) 4157 or 3950
Coptic calendar	1175–1176
Discordian calendar	2625
Ethiopian calendar	1451–1452
Hebrew calendar	5219–5220
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1515–1516
- Shaka Samvat	1380–1381
- Kali Yuga	4559–4560
Holocene calendar	11459
Igbo calendar	459–460
Iranian calendar	837–838
Islamic calendar	863–864
Japanese calendar	Chōroku 3 (長禄３年)
Javanese calendar	1375–1376
Julian calendar	1459 MCDLIX
Korean calendar	3792
Minguo calendar	453 before ROC 民前453年
Nanakshahi calendar	−9
Thai solar calendar	2001–2002
Tibetan calendar	阳土虎年 (male Earth-Tiger) 1585 or 1204 or 432     — to — 阴土兔年 (female Earth-Rabbit) 1586 or 1205 or 433

Year 1459 (MCDLIX) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

• September 23 – Wars of the Roses: Battle of Blore Heath in England: Yorkists under Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury defeat a Lancastrian force.
• October 12 – Wars of the Roses: Due to the advance of a royal force on his fortress of Ludlow, Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York, flees to Ireland, while his ally Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, goes to Calais.

Date unknown

• The Wallachian town of Bucharest is first mentioned.
• The city of Jodhpur, in western India, is founded by Rao Jodha of Marwar.
• Richard Duke of York, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, returns on a second visit to Ireland. The Irish Parliament, meeting at Drogheda, upholds his authority against Henry VI and an English Act of Attainder.

Religion

• King Stephen Thomas of Bosnia forces the clergy of the Bosnian Church into exile.
• According to a legend, the wedding of Christian Rosenkreuz.

Births

• January 25 – Paul Hofhaimer, Austrian organist and composer (d. 1537)
• March 2 – Pope Adrian VI (d. 1523)
• March 6 – Jakob Fugger, German banker (d. 1525)
• March 22 – Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1519)
• May 15 – John I, Count Palatine of Simmern (1480–1509) (d. 1509)
• July 11 – Kaspar, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, German nobleman (d. 1527)
• October 6 – Martin Behaim, German explorer and cartographer (d. 1507)
• November 30 – Mingyi Nyo, founder of Toungoo dynasty of Burma (Myanmar) (d. 1530)
• December 22 – Sultan Cem, pretender to the Ottoman throne (d. 1495)
• December 27 – John I Albert (d. 1501)
• date unknown – Edward Poynings, Lord Deputy to King Henry VII of England (d. 1521)
• probable – Lorenzo di Credi, Florentine painter and sculptor (d. 1537)

Deaths

• March 3 – Ausiàs March, Catalan poet (b. 1397)
• May 3 – Eric of Pomerania, King of Norway, Denmark and Sweden (b. 1382)
• September 23 – James Tuchet, 5th Baron Audley (in battle) (born 1400)
• October 30 – Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini, Italian humanist (b. 1380)
• November 5 – John Fastolf, English soldier
• December 4 – Adolf VIII, Duke of Southern Jutland (b. 1401)