1456

Events

• July 7 - A retrial acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death.
• July 21 - July 22. Battle of 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 Brankovic 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

Births

• 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)
• Jan Laski, Polish nobleman (died 1531)
• Jan Lubranski, Polish bishop (died 1520)

Deaths

• May 24 - Ambroise de Loré, French military leader (b. 1396)
• August 11 - John Hunyadi, Transylvanian statesman and general
• 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 25 - Jacques Cœur, French merchant
• Charles I, Duke of Bourbon (born 1401)
• Ulrich III of Celje (born 1406)
• Nicolas Grenon, French composer
• Juan de Mena, Spanish poet (born 1411)
• Vittore Pisano, Italian medallist

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,
• Jewish Calendar,

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

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