1457

Year 1457 (MCDLVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1457 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1457
MCDLVII
Ab urbe condita2210
Armenian calendar906
ԹՎ ՋԶ
Assyrian calendar6207
Balinese saka calendar1378–1379
Bengali calendar864
Berber calendar2407
English Regnal year35 Hen. 6  36 Hen. 6
Buddhist calendar2001
Burmese calendar819
Byzantine calendar6965–6966
Chinese calendar丙子年 (Fire Rat)
4153 or 4093
     to 
丁丑年 (Fire Ox)
4154 or 4094
Coptic calendar1173–1174
Discordian calendar2623
Ethiopian calendar1449–1450
Hebrew calendar5217–5218
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1513–1514
 - Shaka Samvat1378–1379
 - Kali Yuga4557–4558
Holocene calendar11457
Igbo calendar457–458
Iranian calendar835–836
Islamic calendar861–862
Japanese calendarKōshō 3 / Chōroku 1
(長禄元年)
Javanese calendar1372–1374
Julian calendar1457
MCDLVII
Korean calendar3790
Minguo calendar455 before ROC
民前455年
Nanakshahi calendar−11
Thai solar calendar1999–2000
Tibetan calendar阳火鼠年
(male Fire-Rat)
1583 or 1202 or 430
     to 
阴火牛年
(female Fire-Ox)
1584 or 1203 or 431

Events

JanuaryDecember

  • February 11 After years of captivity and absence from the Ming throne, the Zhengtong Emperor of China is reinstated, as the Tianshun Emperor.
  • February 24 Charles VIII of Sweden is declared deposed. The Archbishop of Sweden, Jöns Bengtsson Oxenstierna, and statesman Erik Axelsson Tott become co-regents of Sweden. The throne is then offered to Christian I of Denmark and Norway.
  • March 6 King James II of Scotland decrees that ". . . ye futebawe and ye golf be uterly cryt done and not usyt . . ", the first historical mention of the game of golf.
  • April 12 Ştefan cel Mare secures the throne of Moldavia, which he retains for the next 47 years.
  • June 23 Christian I is elected king of Sweden, ending the war between Sweden and Denmark and restoring the Kalmar Union.
  • June 29 The Dutch city of Dordrecht is devastated by fire.[1]
  • August 14 The Mainz Psalter, the second major book printed with movable type in the West, the first to be wholly finished mechanically (including colour), and the first to carry a printed date, is printed for the Elector of Mainz.
  • September 2 Battle of Ujëbardha: One of Skanderbeg's most important victories is won against the Ottoman army, in the open field.

Date unknown

Births

Deaths

  • March 14 Jingtai Emperor of China (b. 1428)
  • March 16 László Hunyadi, Hungarian statesman and warrior (b. 1433)[5]
  • May 22 Saint Rita of Cascia, Italian saint (b. 1381)
  • August 1 Lorenzo Valla, Italian humanist
  • August 19 Andrea del Castagno, Italian painter (b. 1421)
  • September 12 Gabriele Sforza, Archbishop of Milan (b. 1423)[6]
  • September 14 Countess Palatine Margaret of Mosbach, countess consort of Hanau (b. 1432)
  • September 22 Peter II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1418)
  • November 3 Ludwig II, Count of Württemberg-Urach, German noble (b. 1439)
  • November 23 King Ladislaus Posthumus of Bohemia and Hungary (b. 1440)
  • December 24 Danjong of Joseon, King of Joseon (b. 1441)
  • date unknown
    • Abul-Qasim Babur Mirza, ruler of Khurasan (b. 1422)
    • Bartolomeu Perestrello, Portuguese navigator and explorer (b. 1395)

References

  1. "Building". Vrienden van de Grote Kerk Dordrecht. Retrieved December 3, 2020.
  2. Roger Lockyer; Andrew Thrush (September 19, 2014). Henry VII. Routledge. p. 7. ISBN 978-1-317-89432-2.
  3. Clayton J. Drees (2001). The Late Medieval Age of Crisis and Renewal, 1300-1500: A Biographical Dictionary. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 68. ISBN 978-0-313-30588-7.
  4. Lucia Corrain (2008). The Art of the Renaissance. The Oliver Press, Inc. p. 17. ISBN 978-1-934545-04-1.
  5. Zsigmond M¢ricz (January 1, 1995). Be Faithful Unto Death. Central European University Press. p. 305. ISBN 978-1-85866-060-8.
  6. O. J. Schnaubelt; Joseph C. Schnaubelt; Frederick Van Fleteren (1999). Augustine in Iconography: History and Legend. P. Lang. p. 339. ISBN 978-0-8204-2291-6.
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