1459

{| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;" |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1456 1457 1458 - 1459 - 1460 1461 1462 |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1420s 1430s 1440s - 1450s - 1460s 1470s 1480s |- | align="center" | Centuries:
14th century - 15th century - 16th century |} ==Events== * September 23 - Battle of Blore Heath. Yorkists under the Earl of Salisbury defeat a Lancastrian force. * October 12 - Due to the advance of a royal force on his fortress of Ludlow, Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York flees to Ireland, while his ally Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick goes to Calais ==Births== * March 2 - Pope Adrian VI (d. 1523) * March 22 - Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor * October 6 - Martin Behaim, navigator, geographer († 1507) * Paul Hofhaimer, Austrian organist and composer * Jean Mouton, French composer of motets ==Deaths== *October 10 - Gianfrancesco Poggio Bracciolini (humanist) 1459 os:1459

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