1456

• July 7 - Joan of Arc acquitted (but she had already been executed).
• July 21 - July 22. Battle of Belgrade. The Hungarians under John Hunyadi rout the Turkish army of Sultan Mehmed II
• 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 temporarily the oldest in Sweden, and Prussia)
• Luigi de Cadamosto discovers the Cape Verde islands.

• June 11 - Anne Neville, later Queen consort of Richard III of England.

• August 11 - John Hunyadi, Transylvanian statesman and general

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.

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