1459

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	865–866
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

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

January 18 – The Order of Our Lady of Bethlehem is founded by Pope Pius II, to defend the island of Lemnos.
September 23 – Wars of the Roses: Battle of Blore Heath in England – Yorkists under Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury, defeat a Lancastrian force.^[1]
October 12 – Wars of the Roses: With a royal force advancing on his fortress at Ludlow, Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York, flees to Ireland, while his ally Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick (Warwick the Kingmaker, eldest son of the Earl of Salisbury) goes to Calais.

The Wallachian town of Bucharest is first mentioned.^[2]
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.^[3] The Irish Parliament, meeting at Drogheda, upholds his authority against Henry VI, and an English Act of Attainder.
Richard Hygons, English composer, begins fifty years of service at Wells Cathedral.

January 25 – Paul Hofhaimer, Austrian organist and composer (d. 1537)
March 2 – Pope Adrian VI, Dutch-born churchman (d. 1523)^[4]
March 6 – Jakob Fugger, German banker (d. 1525)
March 22 – Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1519)^[5]
May 15 – John I, Count Palatine of Simmern (1480–1509) (d. 1509)
July – Mingyi Nyo, founder of the Toungoo Dynasty of Burma (Myanmar) (d. 1530)
July 11 – Kaspar, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, German nobleman (d. 1527)
October 6 – Martin Behaim, German explorer and cartographer (d. 1507)
December 22 – Sultan Cem, pretender to the Ottoman throne (d. 1495)
December 27 – King John I Albert of Poland (d. 1501)
date unknown
- Christina Brask, Swedish writer and translator (d. 1520)
- Edward Poynings, Lord Deputy to King Henry VII of England (d. 1521)
probable – Lorenzo di Credi, Florentine painter and sculptor (d. 1537)
approximate
- Jheronimus de Clibano, Dutch composer (d. 1503)
- Jean Mouton, French composer (d. 1522)

^ John Sadler (January 14, 2014). The Red Rose and the White: The Wars of the Roses, 1453-1487. Taylor & Francis. p. 86. ISBN 978-1-317-90517-2.
^ Sonnenburg, Stephan; Baker, Laura (February 26, 2013). Branded Spaces: Experience Enactments and Entanglements. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 236. ISBN 978-3-658-01561-9.
^ The Oxford Illustrated History of Ireland. Foster, RF. Oxford University Press, Oxford. 1989
^ "Adrian VI | pope". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved March 20, 2021.
^ "Maximilian I | Holy Roman emperor". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved March 20, 2021.
^ James Gairdner (1895). The Paston letters, 1422-1509 A.D.: A new ed. containing upwards of four hundred letters, etc., hitherto unpublished. A. Constable. p. 444.