1456
This article is about the year 1456.
Year 1456 (MCDLVI) was a leap year starting on Thurs-
day (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian cal-
endar.
1 Events
1.1 JanuaryDecember
May 18 Second Battle of Oronichea (1456):
Ottoman forces of 15,000 go to capture Albania
but are met and swiftly defeated by Skanderbeg's
smaller force.
June 9 Halleys Comet makes an appearance, as
noted by the humanist scholar Platina.
July 7 A retrial of Joan of Arc acquits her of heresy
25 years after her execution.
July 21July 22 Battle of Nndorfehrvr (Bel-
grade): The Hungarians under John Hunyadi rout
the Turkish army of Sultan Mehmed II. The noon
bell ordered by Pope Callixtus III commemorates
the victory throughout the Christian world (and
hence is still rung).
August 20 Vladislav II, reigning Prince of
Wallachia, is killed in battle by Vlad the Impaler,
who succeeds him.
October 17 The University of Greifswald is es-
tablished, making it the second oldest university
in northern Europe, also for a period the oldest in
Sweden and Prussia.
1.2 Date unknown
Lazar Brankovi becomes despot of Serbia.
Alvise Cadamosto discovers some of the Cape
Verde Islands.
Diogo Gomes reaches the Geba River in Guinea Bis-
sau and explores the Gambia River.
Emperor Zara Yaqob of Ethiopia founds the city of
Debre Berhan.
Muscovy and Novgorod Republic conclude the
Treaty of Yazhelbitsy.
1
2 Births
March Jan aski, Polish nobleman (d. 1531)
March 1 King Ladislaus II of Bohemia and Hun-
gary (d. 1516)
June 11 Anne Neville, queen of Richard III of
England (d. 1485)
June 23 Margaret of Denmark, queen of James III
of Scotland (d. 1486)
June 25 Henry V of Rosenberg, Bohemian noble-
man (d. 1489)
October 16 Ludmila of Podbrady, Regent of the
duchies of Brzeg and Oawa (14881503) (d. 1503)
November 7 Margaret of Bavaria, Electress Pala-
tine, Princess of Bavaria-Landshut by birth (d.
1501)
November 8 Queen Gonghye, Korean royal con-
sort (d. 1474)
date unknown Jan Lubraski, Polish bishop (d.
1520)
date unknown Jeanne Hachette, French heroine
3 Deaths
January 17 Elisabeth of Lorraine-Vaudmont,
French translator (b. 1395)
August 11 John Hunyadi, Transylvanian states-
man, Regent-Governor (14461453) of the King-
dom of Hungary. (b. 1387)
October 17 Nicolas Grenon, French composer (b.
1375)
October 23 Giovanni da Capistrano, Italian saint
(b. 1386)
November 3 Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Rich-
mond, father of King Henry VII of England (b.
1431)
November 9 Ulrich II, Count of Celje (b. 1406)
November 25 Jacques Cur, French merchant (b.
1395)
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December 4 Charles I, Duke of Bourbon (b. 1401)

December 24 ura Brankovi, Despot of Serbia

(b. 1377)

date unknown Juan de Mena, Spanish poet (b.

1411)

4 References
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