1458

January–December

• January 24 - Matthias Corvinus becomes king of Hungary, at age 14.
• March 25 - The Love Day is staged in London, by which Henry VI of England attempts to unite the warring factions who have triggered the War of the Roses.
• August 19 - Pope Pius II succeeds Pope Callixtus III, as the 210th pope.
• October 24 - King Afonso V of Portugal conquers Ksar es-Seghir, in North Africa.

  Date unknown

• Magdalen College, Oxford, is founded.
• George of Poděbrady becomes king of Bohemia.
• The Ottoman authorities issue a decree to protect the Acropolis, after they conquer Athens.
• The Jewish community is expelled from Erfurt ; their houses are sold, and the synagogue turned into an arsenal.
• Moctezuma I, Tlatoani of Tenochtitlán, leads an expedition to the city-state Coixtlahuaca in Mixtec territory, but is defeated.
• A major volcano erupts from the Kuwae caldera, in the Pacific Ocean.

  Births

• February 15 - Ivan the Young, Ruler of Tver
• April 9 - Camilla Battista da Varano, Italian saint
• April 13 - John II, Duke of Cleves
• May 2 - Eleanor of Viseu, Portuguese princess and later Queen of Portugal
• August 18 - Lorenzo Pucci, Italian Catholic cardinal
• October 3 - Saint Casimir, Prince of Poland and Duke of Lithuania
• October 16 - Adolph II, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen, German prince
• December 25 - Amago Tsunehisa, Japanese warlord
• date unknown
• * Jacob Obrecht, Dutch composer
• * Jacopo Sannazaro, Italian poet
• probable
• * Thomas Docwra, Grand Prior of the English Knights Hospitaller
• * Richard Grey, half brother of Edward V of England

  Deaths

• January 17 - Louis I, Landgrave of Hesse, Landgrave of Hesse
• February 20 - Lazar Branković, Despot of Serbia
• March 25 - Íñigo López de Mendoza, 1st Marquis of Santillana, Spanish poet
• April 11 - Helena Palaiologina, Queen of Cyprus
• June 27 - King Alfonso V of Aragon
• July 28 - John II of Cyprus
• August 6 - Pope Callixtus III
• September 7 - Maria of Castile, Queen of Aragon, Queen consort of Aragon and Naples
• December 26 - Arthur III, Duke of Brittany
• date unknown - Isabelle Romée, mother of Joan of Arc