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1456{| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;" |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Years: 1453 1454 1455 - 1456 - 1457 1458 1459 |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Decades: 1420s 1430s 1440s - 1450s - 1460s 1470s 1480s |- | align="center" | Centuries: 14th century - 15th century - 16th century |} Events * July 7 - Joan of Arc acquitted (but she had already been executed). *July 21 - July 22. Battle of Belgrade (1456). 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. Births *June 11 - Anne Neville, queen of Richard III of England Deaths *August 11 - John Hunyadi, Transylvanian statesman and general *Charles I, Duke of Bourbon (b. 1401) ---- ===1456 Year Equivalents=== *Hindu Calendar, (March 14, 1399 - March 13, 1400) 1 *Hindu Calendar, (March 21/March 22 , 1529 - March 20/March 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. 1456 os:1456 14561450s See other meanings of words starting from letter:A | B | C | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | R | S | T | U | V | X | Y | Z | |
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