- 1457
Year 1457 was a
common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of theJulian calendar .Events of 1457
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Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg is founded.
*Ştefan cel Mare secures the throne ofMoldavia , which he retains for the next 47 years.
*Edo Castle is built byŌta Dōkan in what is nowTokyo .
*Charles VIII of Sweden is declared deposed.Archbishop of Sweden Jöns Bengtsson Oxenstierna and statesmanErik Axelsson Tott become co-regents of Sweden. The throne is then offered toChristian I of Denmark andNorway .
* After years of captivity and absence from the Ming throne, theZhengtong Emperor ofChina is reinstated as theTianshun Emperor .Births
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January 28 - KingHenry VII of England (d.1509 )
*February 13 -Mary of Burgundy , wife ofMaximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (d.1482 )
*November 22 -Jacob Obrecht , Dutch composer (d.1505 )
*"date unknown"
**Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset (d.1501 )
**George Nevill, Duke of Bedford (d.1483 )
*"probable"
**Sebastian Brant , German humanist and satirist (d.1521 )
**Filippino Lippi , Florentine painter (d.1504 )
**Thomas West, 8th Baron De La Warr (d.1525 )Deaths
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March 14 -Jingtai Emperor of China (b.1428 )
*March 16 -László Hunyadi , Hungarian statesman and warrior (b.1433 )
*May 22 -Saint Rita of Cascia , Italian saint (b.1381 )
*August 1 -Lorenzo Valla , Italian humanist
*November 23 - KingLadislaus Posthumus of Bohemia and Hungary (b.1440 )
*"date unknown"
**Babur Ibn-Baysunkur , ruler of Khurasan (b.1422 )
**Andrea del Castagno , Italian painter
**Peter II, Duke of Brittany (b.1418 )
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