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== Events == <onlyinclude> === January–December === * [[January 24]] – [[Matthias Corvinus]] becomes king of [[Kingdom of Hungary|Hungary]], at age 14.<ref>{{cite book|author=John P. C. Matthews|title=Explosion: The Hungarian Revolution of 1956|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fCyh3zIlkbsC&pg=PA74|year=2007|publisher=Hippocrene Books|isbn=978-0-7818-1174-3|pages=74}}</ref> * [[February 27]] – [[George of Poděbrady]] is elected king of [[Kingdom of Bohemia|Bohemia]].<ref>{{cite web|title=George of Poděbrady|url=https://timenote.info/en/George-of-Podbrady|website=Time-Note|accessdate=2024-12-27}}</ref> * [[March 25]] – The [[Loveday, 1458|Loveday]] is staged in [[London]], by which [[Henry VI of England]] attempts to unite the warring factions who have triggered the [[Wars of the Roses]].<ref>{{cite book|author=David Grummitt|title=Henry VI|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aOcjCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA190|date=8 May 2015|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-317-48260-4|pages=190}}</ref> * June – [[Francesco II Acciaioli]], last Duke of [[Athens]], surrenders the city to the [[Ottoman Empire]] and Sultan [[Mehmed II]] enters peacefully in August. Ottoman authorities issue a decree to protect the [[Acropolis]].<ref>{{Cite book|publisher=Macmillan|location=New York|first= Martin Luther|last=D'Ooge|title=The Acropolis of Athens|year=1909|quote=In 1458 the Turkish ruler occupied the Propylaea as a residence, and turned the Erechtheum into a harem, restoring, however, the Parthenon to the Greeks as a place of worship.|ol=7107840M}}</ref> * [[July 15]] – [[Magdalen College, Oxford]], is founded.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.magd.ox.ac.uk/discover-magdalen/history-of-college|title= College History| publisher=magd.ox.ac.uk|access-date=March 22, 2019}}</ref> * [[August 19]] – [[Pope Pius II]] succeeds [[Pope Callixtus III|Callixtus III]], as the 210th pope.<ref>{{cite book|author=Jan L. de Jong|title=The Power and the Glorification: Papal Pretensions and the Art of Propaganda in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cAJywP5rVK8C&pg=PA4|date=April 5, 2013|publisher=Penn State Press|isbn=978-0-271-06237-2|pages=4}}</ref> * [[October 24]] – King [[Afonso V of Portugal]] conquers [[Ksar es-Seghir]], in [[North Africa]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Vasconcelos e Sousa|first=Bernardo|title=História de Portugal|edition=4th|page=182|language=pt}}</ref> === Date unknown === * The Jewish community is expelled from [[Erfurt]] (Germany); their houses are sold, and the synagogue turned into an arsenal.<ref>{{cite news|last=Lemaître|first=Frédéric|title=Erfurt, ses juifs et l'UNESCO|url=http://www.lemonde.fr/europe/article/2011/09/19/erfurt-ses-juifs-et-l-unesco_1574328_3214.html|access-date=September 19, 2011|newspaper=Le Monde|date=September 19, 2011|language=fr}}</ref> * [[Moctezuma I]], [[Tlatoani]] of Tenochtitlán, leads an expedition to the city-state Coixtlahuaca in [[Mixtec]] territory, but is defeated. * [[1458 mystery eruption|A major volcano erupts]].<ref>{{cite news|first=Steve|last=Connor|title=The history of the planet's biggest volcanic explosions – deep in the ice of Antarctica|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/the-history-of-the-planets-biggest-volcanic-explosions--deep-in-the-ice-of-antarctica-9587991.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/the-history-of-the-planets-biggest-volcanic-explosions--deep-in-the-ice-of-antarctica-9587991.html |archive-date=May 1, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|newspaper=[[The Independent]]|location=London|date=July 7, 2014|access-date=July 7, 2014}}{{cbignore}}</ref></onlyinclude>
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