Information about 1456

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

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

Events of 1456

July 7 - A retrial acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death.
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. (Hence the noon bell is still rung to this day.)
August 20 - Vladislav II, reigning Prince of Wallachia is killed in battle by Vlad III Dracula who succeeds him.
Lazar Branković becomes king of Serbia.
The university of Greifswald, later Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald is established, making it the second oldest university in northern Europe (also for a period the oldest in Sweden, and Prussia)
Luigi de Cadamosto discovers the Cape Verde islands.
Emperor Zara Yaqob of Ethiopia founds the city of Debre Berhan
Muscovy and Novgorod Republic conclude the Treaty of Yazhelbitsy.

**1456 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1456 MCDLVI
Ab urbe condita	2209
Armenian calendar	905 ԹՎ ՋԵ
Bah' calendar	-388 – -387
Buddhist calendar	2000
Chinese calendar	4092/4152-7-21 (乙亥年七月廿一日) — to — 4093/4153-7-1 (丙子年七月初一日)
Coptic calendar	1172 – 1173
Ethiopian calendar	1448 – 1449
Hebrew calendar	5216 – 5217
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1511 – 1512
- Shaka Samvat	1378 – 1379
- Kali Yuga	4557 – 4558
Holocene calendar	11456
Iranian calendar	834 – 835
Islamic calendar	860 – 861
Japanese calendar	Kōshō 0 (康正0年)
- Imperial Year	Kōki 2116 (皇紀2116年)
Julian calendar	1501
Korean calendar	3789
Thai solar calendar	1999
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Births

March - Jan Łaski, Polish nobleman (died 1531)
March 1 - King Ladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary (died 1516)
June 11 - Anne Neville, queen of Richard III of England (died 1485)
June 23 - Margaret of Denmark, queen of James III of Scotland (died 1486)
date unknown - Jan Lubrański, Polish bishop (died 1520)

Deaths

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

1456 Year Equivalents

Hindu Calendar, (March 14, 1399 - March 13, 1400) ¹
Hindu Calendar, (March 21/22, 1529 - March 20/21, 1530)²
Islamic calendar,
Hebrew calendar,

¹:Calculated from AD 78, beginning of the Saka era.

²:Calculated from 58 BC, beginning of the Vikrama era.

Upper Paleolithic

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14th century was that century which lasted from 1301 to 1400.

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The transition from the Medieval Warm Period to the Little Ice Age
Beginning of the Ottoman Empire, early expansion into the Balkans

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15th century was that century which lasted from 1401 to 1500.

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1402: Ottoman and Timurid Empires fight at the Battle of Ankara resulting in Timur's capture of Bayezid I.
1402: The conquest of the Canary Islands signals the beginning of the Spanish Empire.

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As a means of recording the passage of time, the 16th century was that century which lasted from 1501 through 1600.

See also: 16th century in literature

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1500s: Mississippian culture disappears.

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Adal Sultanate

Ethiopia - Zara Yaqob, Emperor of Ethiopia (1434-1468)

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Aztec Empire - Moctezuma I, Aztec Emperor (1440-1469)
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This is the calendar for any leap year starting on Thursday (dominical letter DC), such as 2004.

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7th July, July 7th, and 7/7 (pronounced "Seven-seven") have been widely used in the Western media as a shorthand for the 7 July 2005 bombings on London's transport system.
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Joan of Arc, or Jeanne d'Arc in French,^[1] (c. 1412 – May 30, 1431)^[1] was a 15th century national heroine of France. She was tried and executed for heresy when she was only 19 years old.
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July 21 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.

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July 22 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.

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Siege of Belgrade occurred from July 4 to July 22, 1456. After the fall of Constantinople in 1453, Ottoman sultan Mehmed II was rallying his resources in order to subjugate the Kingdom of Hungary.
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