1459

Year 1459 was a (link will display the full calendar) of the.

Events of 1459

 * - . Yorkists under the  defeat a Lancastrian force.
 * - Due to the advance of a royal force on his fortress of, flees to Ireland, while his ally  goes to.
 * First mention of the n town of.
 * City of, in western , founded by of.

Births

 * - (died )
 * -, German banker (d. )
 * - (died )
 * -, German explorer and cartographer (died )
 * -, pretender to the Ottoman throne (died )
 * date unknown -, Lord Deputy to King Henry VII of England (died )
 * probable -, Florentine painter and sculptor (died )

Deaths

 * -, Catalan poet (b. )
 * -, King of Norway, Denmark and Sweden (born )
 * - (born ) (killed in battle)
 * -, Italian humanist (born )
 * -, English soldier
 * -, Duke of Southern Jutland (b. )