1457

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Year 1457 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1457

• Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg is founded.
• Ştefan cel Mare secures the throne of Moldavia, which he retains for the next 47 years.
• Edo Castle is built by Ōta Dōkan in what is now Tokyo.
• Charles VIII of Sweden is declared deposed. Archbishop of Sweden Jöns Bengtsson Oxenstierna and statesman Erik Axelsson Tott become co-regents of Sweden. The throne is then offered to Christian I of Denmark and Norway.
• After years of captivity and absence from the Ming throne, the Zhengtong Emperor of China is reinstated as the Tianshun Emperor.

Births

• January 28 - King Henry VII of England (d. 1509)
• February 13 - Mary of Burgundy, wife of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1482)
• November 22 - Jacob Obrecht, Dutch composer (d. 1505)
• date unknown
• Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset (d. 1501)
• George Nevill, Duke of Bedford (d. 1483)
• probable
• Sebastian Brant, German humanist and satirist (d. 1521)
• Filippino Lippi, Florentine painter (d. 1504)
• Thomas West, 8th Baron De La Warr (d. 1525)

Deaths

• March 14 - Jingtai Emperor of China (b. 1428)
• March 16 - László Hunyadi, Hungarian statesman and warrior (b. 1433)
• May 22 - Saint Rita of Cascia, Italian saint (b. 1381)
• August 1 - Lorenzo Valla, Italian humanist
• November 23 - King Ladislaus Posthumus of Bohemia and Hungary (b. 1440)
• date unknown
• Babur Ibn-Baysunkur, ruler of Khurasan (b. 1422)
• Andrea del Castagno, Italian painter
• Peter II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1418)

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