Major Events
- Mar 30 Prince Louis of Bourbon elected Bishop of Liege
- Apr 7 Louis van Burbon becomes prince-bishop of Luik
- Jun 9 23rd recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
- Jul 7 A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death
- Jul 22 Battle at Nandorfehervar (Belgrade): Hungarian army under Janos Hunyadi beats Sultan Murad II
- Aug 24 The printing of the Gutenberg Bible is completed
- Oct 17 The University of Greifswald is established, making it the second oldest university in northern continental Europe (also for a period the oldest in Sweden, and Prussia)
- Dec 5 Earthquake strikes Naples, killing an estimated 35,000 people
Did You Know?Born in 1456
- Mar 1 Vladislaus II, King of Bohemia (1471-1516) and King of Hungary (1490-1516), born in Kraków (d. 1516)
- Jun 11 Anne Neville, English queen, wife of Richard III of England, born in Warwick Castle, Warwickshire (d. 1485)
- Jun 23 Margaret of Denmark, wife of James III of Scotland (d. 1486)
- Jul 28 Jacopo Sannazaro, Italian poet (Arcadia), born in Naples, Kingdom of Naples (now Italy) (d. 1530)
Who Died in 1456
- Jan 8 St. Laurence Justinian [Lorenzo Giustiniani], Italian catholic bishop and 1st Patriarch of Venice, dies at 74
- May 1 Hugues de Lannoy, Flemish viceroy of Holland/Zealand, dies
- May 24 Ambroise de Loré, French military commander (b. 1396)
- Aug 11 Janos Hunyadi, Hungarian general strategist, dies at about 49
- Oct 23 Saint John of Capistrano, Franciscan friar and Catholic priest from the Italian town of Capestrano, Abruzzo, dies at 70
More 1456 Deaths
Gregory I
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Julius II
Julius III
Leo X
Pius V