1457
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This article is about the year 1457.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 14th century – 15th century – 16th century |
| Decades: | 1420s 1430s 1440s – 1450s – 1460s 1470s 1480s |
| Years: | 1454 1455 1456 – 1457 – 1458 1459 1460 |
| 1457 by topic |
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| Arts and science |
| Architecture - Art |
| Politics |
| State leaders - Sovereign states |
| Birth and death categories |
| Births - Deaths |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories |
| Establishments - Disestablishments |
| Art and literature |
| 1457 in poetry |
| Gregorian calendar | 1457 MCDLVII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2210 |
| Armenian calendar | 906 ԹՎ ՋԶ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6207 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -387 – -386 |
| Bengali calendar | 864 |
| Berber calendar | 2407 |
| English Regnal year | 35 Hen. 6 – 36 Hen. 6 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2001 |
| Burmese calendar | 819 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6965–6966 |
| Chinese calendar | 丙子年 (Fire Rat) 4153 or 4093 — to — 丁丑年 (Fire Ox) 4154 or 4094 |
| Coptic calendar | 1173–1174 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1449–1450 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5217–5218 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1513–1514 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1379–1380 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4558–4559 |
| Holocene calendar | 11457 |
| Igbo calendar | 457–458 |
| Iranian calendar | 835–836 |
| Islamic calendar | 861–862 |
| Japanese calendar | Kōshō 3 / Chōroku 1 (長禄元年) |
| Juche calendar | N/A |
| Julian calendar | 1457 MCDLVII |
| Korean calendar | 3790 |
| Minguo calendar | 455 before ROC 民前455年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2000 |
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Year 1457 (MCDLVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events[edit]
January–December[edit]
- February 24 – Charles VIII of Sweden is declared deposed. Archbishop of Sweden Jöns Bengtsson Oxenstierna and statesman Erik Axelsson Tott become co-regents of Sweden. The throne is then offered to Christian I of Denmark and Norway.
- June 23 – Christian I is elected king of Sweden, ending the war between Sweden and Denmark and restoring the Kalmar union.
- September 2 – Battle of Ujëbardha: One of Skanderbeg's most important victories against the Ottoman army in the open field.
Date unknown[edit]
- The oldest printed book to carry a date, the Mainz Psalter, is published.
- Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg is founded.
- Ştefan cel Mare secures the throne of Moldavia, which he retains for the next 47 years.
- Edo Castle is built by Ōta Dōkan in what is now Tokyo.
- After years of captivity and absence from the Ming throne, the Zhengtong Emperor of China is reinstated as the Tianshun Emperor.
Births[edit]
- January 28 – King Henry VII of England (d. 1509)
- February 13 – Mary of Burgundy, wife of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1482)
- November 22 – Jacob Obrecht, Dutch composer (d. 1505)
- date unknown
- 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[edit]
- 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 – King Ladislaus 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)
