1456

This article is about the year 1456.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1420s  1430s  1440s  – 1450s –  1460s  1470s  1480s
Years:	1453 1454 1455 – 1456 – 1457 1458 1459

1456 by topic
Arts and science
Architecture - Art
Politics
State leaders - Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births - Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments - Disestablishments
Art and literature
1456 in poetry

1456 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1456 MCDLVI
Ab urbe condita	2209
Armenian calendar	905 ԹՎ ՋԵ
Assyrian calendar	6206
Bengali calendar	863
Berber calendar	2406
English Regnal year	34 Hen. 6 – 35 Hen. 6
Buddhist calendar	2000
Burmese calendar	818
Byzantine calendar	6964–6965
Chinese calendar	乙亥年 (Wood Pig) 4152 or 4092     — to — 丙子年 (Fire Rat) 4153 or 4093
Coptic calendar	1172–1173
Discordian calendar	2622
Ethiopian calendar	1448–1449
Hebrew calendar	5216–5217
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1512–1513
- Shaka Samvat	1378–1379
- Kali Yuga	4557–4558
Holocene calendar	11456
Igbo calendar	456–457
Iranian calendar	834–835
Islamic calendar	860–861
Japanese calendar	Kōshō 2 (康正２年)
Julian calendar	1456 MCDLVI
Korean calendar	3789
Minguo calendar	456 before ROC 民前456年
Thai solar calendar	1998–1999

Year 1456 (MCDLVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

• 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 – Halley's 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 21–July 22 – Battle of Nándorfehérvár (Belgrade): 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 established, making it the second oldest university in northern Europe (also for a period the oldest in Sweden and Prussia).

Date unknown

• Lazar Branković becomes despot of Serbia.
• Alvise Cadamosto discovers some of the Cape Verde Islands.
• Diogo Gomes reaches the Geba River in Guinea Bissau 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.

Births

• March – Jan Łaski, Polish nobleman (d. 1531)
• March 1 – King Ladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary (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)
• date unknown – Jan Lubrański, Polish bishop (d. 1520)

Deaths

• May 24 – Ambroise de Loré, French military leader (b. 1396)
• August 11 – John Hunyadi, Transylvanian statesman, Regent-Governor (1446–1453) of the Kingdom of Hungary. (b. 1387)
• October 17 – Nicolas Grenon, French composer
• October 23 – Giovanni da Capistrano, Italian saint (b. 1386)
• November 1 – Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond, father of King Henry VII of England
• November 9 – Ulrich II, Count of Celje (b. 1406)
• November 25 – Jacques Cœur, French merchant
• December 4 – Charles I, Duke of Bourbon (b. 1401)
• December 24 – Đurađ Branković, Despot of Serbia
• date unknown – Juan de Mena, Spanish poet (b. 1411)