Finished on April 24, 1459, it was sent to Portugal with a letter to Prince Henry the Navigator, Afonso's uncle, encouraging further funding of exploration trips.

Attacks upon the monopolists by Parliament for the abuse of prices led to the scapegoating of Francis Bacon by George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, leading to Bacon's impeachment before the Lords, the first of its kind which was not officially sanctioned by the King in the form of a bill of attainder since 1459.

Thus Gutenberg was effectively bankrupt, but it appears he retained ( or re-started ) a small printing shop, and participated in the printing of a Bible in the town of Bamberg around 1459, for which he seems at least to have supplied the type.

* Alberti is also now thought to have had an important role in the designing of Pienza, a village that had been called Corsignano, but which was redesigned beginning around 1459.

Adriaan Florenszoon Boeyens was born on 2 March 1459 in the city of Utrecht, which was then the capital of the Prince-Bishopric of Utrecht, a part of the Burgundian Netherlands in the Holy Roman Empire.

On 26 September 1459 he called for a new crusade against the Ottomans and on 14 January 1460 he proclaimed the official crusade that was to last for three years.

His long progress to the place of assembly resembled a triumphal procession, and the Council of Mantua of 1459, a complete failure as regards its ostensible object of mounting a crusade, at least showed that the impotence of Christendom was not owing to the Pope.

Year 1459 ( MCDLIX ) was a common year starting on Monday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Julian calendar.

Bucharest was first mentioned in documents as early as 1459.

Maximilian I ( 22 March 1459 – 12 January 1519 ), the son of Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor and Eleanor of Portugal, was King of the Romans ( also known as King of the Germans ) from 1486 and Holy Roman Emperor from 1493 until his death, though he was never in fact crowned by the Pope, the journey to Rome always being too risky.

Maximilian was born at Wiener Neustadt on 22 March 1459.

Conrad Celtes ( or Celtis ), also Konrad Celtis and Latin Conradus Celtis ( 1 February 1459 – 4 February 1508 ), was a German Renaissance humanist scholar and Neo-Latin poet.

Josquin was long mistaken for a man with a similar name, Josquin de Kessalia, born around the year 1440, who sang in Milan from 1459 to 1474, dying in 1498.

Ottoman control over Serbia meant that the once abolished Serbian patriarchate ( 1459 ) was reestablished in 1557-thus providing the continuation of Serbian cultural traditions within the empire.

The title Lord Glamis was created in 1445 for Sir Patrick Lyon ( 1402 – 1459 ), grandson of Sir John.

In June 1459 a great council was summoned to meet at Coventry.

The part that covers the years 1459 – 1486 was written in April 1486 ( after Henry Tudor had become Henry VII of England ) by someone who had access to information from the court of Richard III — described as being a doctor of canon law and member of Edward IV's council.

Sir John Fastolf, the inspiration for Shakespeare's Falstaff, was buried here in December 1459, next to his wife Millicent in a new aisle built by Fastolf on the South side of the abbey church.

John Howard was the son of Sir Robert Howard ( 1385 – 1436 ) and the former Lady Margaret de Mowbray ( 1388 – 1459 ), eldest daughter of Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk ( of the first creation ) ( 1366 – 1399 ) and Lady Elizabeth FitzAlan ( 1366 – 1425 ).

In the fifteenth century, Blickling Hall was in the possession of Sir John Fastolf of Caister in Norfolk ( 1380 – 1459 ), who made a fortune in the Hundred Years ' War, and whose coat of arms is still on display there.

Ulrich's youngest brother Jakob Fugger ( illustration, below ) was born in 1459, and was to become the most famous member of the dynasty.

Afterwards, in 1458, he helped to reconcile the contending parties, but when the war was renewed in 1459 he appears as a decided Yorkist ; he crowned King Edward IV in June 1461, and four years later he crowned the queen, Elizabeth Woodville.

* The Castle, originally built before 540 AD and enlarged by the Normans and later by the Aragonese in 1459, unfortunately partially torn in late 19th century and in 1923, is now home to art exhibitions.

In 1459, hostilities resumed at the Battle of Blore Heath, where Margaret is said to have witnessed her commander, James Touchet, Lord Audley, defeated by a Yorkist army under Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury.

1485 ), born c. 1459 ), wife of a cloth merchant William Gardiner, of London, sometimes spelled William Gardynyr for his Welsh descent ( born c. 1450 ), having by him: Stephen Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester ( c. 1490 – 12 November 1555 ); Richard Gardiner ( 1486 – 1548 ); and William Gardiner, ( 1488 – 1549 )

* Sir David Owen ( 1459 – 1528 ), knighted in 1485 by his nephew, King Henry VII, at Milford Haven.

The town is accessible from Highway 35 by taking 1459 or 524, which intersect in Sweeny from the highway, forming a " loop " off of 35.

File: Albrecht Dürer 080. jpg | Jakob Fugger ( 1459 – 1525 ), by Albrecht Dürer

However, in 1459 ( MS Thott 290 2 ) Hans Talhoffer reported that in spite of Church disapproval, there were nevertheless seven capital crimes that were still commonly accepted as resolvable by means of a judicial duel.

A recent English translation of Ibn ' Arabī's own summary of the Fuṣūṣ, Naqsh al-Fuṣūṣ ( The Imprint or Pattern of the Fusus ) as well a commentary on this work by ' Abd al-Raḥmān Jāmī, Naqd al-Nuṣūṣ fī Sharḥ Naqsh al-Fuṣūṣ ( 1459 ), by William Chittick was published in Volume 1 of the Journal of the Muhyiddin Ibn ' Arabi Society ( 1982 ).

Later, in the 15th century under the ownership of Richard, Duke of York, the castle was a major base in the Wars of the Roses and was taken by the Lancastrians in 1459 but back in York hands in 1461.

The moment of highest prestige for Mantua was the Council held in the city from May 27, 1459 to January 19, 1460, summoned by Pope Pius II to launch a crusade against the Ottoman Turks, who had conquered Constantinople some years earlier.

Holstein on the other hand, after the death of Adolphus IV in 1261, was split up into several countships by his sons and again by his grandsons ( 1290 ): the lines of Holstein-Kiel ( 1261 – 1390 ), Holstein-Pinneberg and Schaumburg ( 1290 – 1640 ) south of the Elbe, Holstein-Plön ( 1290 – 1350 ), Holstein-Rendsburg ( 1290 – 1459 ), and at times also Holstein-Itzehoe ( 1261 – 1290 ) and Holstein-Segeberg ( 1273 – 1315 ), and again 1397 – 1403 ), all named after the comital residential cities.

It was officially used in the successor state, Serbian Despotate, until its annexation by the Ottoman Empire in 1459.

He was appointed seneschal of Gascony in 1450 ( but failed to reach it before its fall ), lieutenant of Calais in 1454 – 5, and to defend Kent against invasion by the Yorkist earls in 1459 – 60 ( but was captured at Sandwich ).

During the Wars of the Roses he fought with his father and brother Thomas at the Battle of Blore Heath in 1459 and was captured and imprisoned in Chester Castle by the Lancastrians.

Serbia proper became a vassal of the Ottomans in 1390 but remained effectively ruled by the Lazarevićs and then by their Brankovićs successors until the fall of Smederevo in 1459.

Charles of Viana arrived in 1459 to take possession of both the island and the castle, as he had agreed with his father King John II of Aragon, even though finally the king granted not the lordship nor the Bellver Castle.

In the following year there was a fresh rebellion, when the emperor Frederick was actually crowned king by the malcontents at Vienna-Neustadt ( 4 March 1459 ); Matthias however drove him out, and Pope Pius II intervened so as to leave Matthias free to engage in a projected crusade against the Ottomans, which subsequent political complications, however, rendered impossible.

In 1459 Skanderbeg's forces captured fortress of Sati from Ottoman Empire and Skanderbeg ceded it to Venice in order to secure cordial relationship with Signoria before he send his troops to Italy to help King Ferdinand to regain and maintain his kingdom after the death of king Alfonso V of Aragon.

In 1459 the son of Alfonso, king Ferdinand I of Naples again requested the help of Skanderbeg.

* In his chronicle Chronica regum Romanorum, completed in 1459, Thomas Ebendorfer ( d. 1464 ) states that King Wenceslaus had drowned the confessor of his wife, indicated as Magister Jan, because he had stated that only the one who rules properly deserves the name of king and had refused to betray the seal of Confession.

When Lauenburg was retaken by the knights in 1459, the Polish king was upset and ravaged the Stolp area.

In 1459, the boundaries were fixed between Bohemia and Saxony by a contract between the Bohemian king and Frederick II and Duke William III of Saxony.