1459
Year 1459 was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.Events
January–December
- September 23 - Wars of the Roses - Battle of Blore Heath in England: Yorkists under Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury defeat a Lancastrian force.
- October 12 - Wars of the Roses: 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 eldest son of above , goes to Calais.
Date unknown
- The Wallachian town of Bucharest is first mentioned.
- The city of Jodhpur, in western India, is founded by Rao Jodha of Marwar.
- Richard, Duke of York, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, returns on a second visit to Ireland. The Irish Parliament, meeting at Drogheda, upholds his authority against Henry VI, and an English Act of Attainder.
- Richard Hygons, English composer, begins fifty years service at Wells Cathedral.
Religion
- King Stephen Thomas of Bosnia forces the clergy of the Bosnian Church into exile.
- According to a legend, the wedding of Christian Rosenkreuz takes place.
Births
- January 25 - Paul Hofhaimer, Austrian organist and composer
- March 2 - Pope Adrian VI
- March 6 - Jakob Fugger, German banker
- March 22 - Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor
- May 15 - John I, Count Palatine of Simmern
- July - Mingyi Nyo, founder of the Toungoo Dynasty of Burma
- July 11 - Kaspar, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, German nobleman
- October 6 - Martin Behaim, German explorer and cartographer
- December 22 - Sultan Cem, pretender to the Ottoman throne
- December 27 - King John I Albert of Poland
- date unknown - Edward Poynings, Lord Deputy to King Henry VII of England
- * Christina Brask, Swedish writer and translator
- probable - Lorenzo di Credi, Florentine painter and sculptor
- date unknown - Jheronimus de Clibano, Dutch composer
- date unknown - Jean Mouton, French composer
Deaths
- February 14 - Stefan, Count Palatine of Simmern-Zweibrücken
- March 3 - Ausiàs March, Catalan poet from Valencia
- May 2 - Antoninus of Florence, Italian archbishop
- August 27 - James of Portugal, Portuguese cardinal
- September 6 - Katharina of Nassau-Beilstein, German regent
- September 17 - Isabella of Urgell, Duchess of Coimbra, Portuguese Duchess
- September 23 :
- * James Tuchet, 5th Baron Audley
- * Thomas Dutton, English knight
- September 24 - Eric of Pomerania, King of Norway, Denmark and Sweden
- October 30 - Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini, Italian humanist
- November 5 - John Fastolf, English soldier
- December 4 - Adolf VIII, Duke of Southern Jutland
