1457

This article is about the year 1457.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1420s  1430s  1440s  – 1450s –  1460s  1470s  1480s
Years:	1454 1455 1456 – 1457 – 1458 1459 1460

1457 by topic
Arts and science
Architecture - Art
Politics
State leaders - Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births - Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments - Disestablishments
Art and literature
1457 in poetry

1457 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1457 MCDLVII
Ab urbe condita	2210
Armenian calendar	906 ԹՎ ՋԶ
Assyrian calendar	6207
Bengali calendar	864
Berber calendar	2407
English Regnal year	35 Hen. 6 – 36 Hen. 6
Buddhist calendar	2001
Burmese calendar	819
Byzantine calendar	6965–6966
Chinese calendar	丙子年 (Fire Rat) 4153 or 4093     — to — 丁丑年 (Fire Ox) 4154 or 4094
Coptic calendar	1173–1174
Discordian calendar	2623
Ethiopian calendar	1449–1450
Hebrew calendar	5217–5218
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1513–1514
- Shaka Samvat	1378–1379
- Kali Yuga	4557–4558
Holocene calendar	11457
Igbo calendar	457–458
Iranian calendar	835–836
Islamic calendar	861–862
Japanese calendar	Kōshō 3 / Chōroku 1 (長禄元年)
Javanese calendar	1372–1374
Julian calendar	1457 MCDLVII
Korean calendar	3790
Minguo calendar	455 before ROC 民前455年
Nanakshahi calendar	−11
Thai solar calendar	1999–2000

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

Events

January–December

• February 11 – After years of captivity and absence from the Ming throne, the Zhengtong Emperor of China is reinstated as the Tianshun Emperor.
• February 24 – 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.
• April 12 – Ştefan cel Mare secures the throne of Moldavia, which he retains for the next 47 years.
• June 23 – Christian I is elected king of Sweden, ending the war between Sweden and Denmark and restoring the Kalmar union.
• August 14 – The Mainz Psalter, the second major book printed with movable type in the West, the first to be wholly finished mechanically (including colour) and the first to carry a printed date, is printed for the Elector of Mainz.
• September 2 – Battle of Ujëbardha: One of Skanderbeg's most important victories against the Ottoman army in the open field.

Date unknown

• Albrechts University is founded at Freiburg im Breisgau.
• Edo Castle is built by Ōta Dōkan in modern-day Tokyo.

Births

• January 18 – Antonio Trivulzio, seniore, Roman Catholic cardinal (d. 1508)
• January 28 – King Henry VII of England (d. 1509)
• February 2 – Peter Martyr d'Anghiera, Italo-Spanish historian and diplomat (d. 1526)
• February 13 – Mary of Burgundy, wife of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1482)
• August 20 – Seongjong of Joseon, King of Joseon (d. 1494)
• September 21 – Hedwig Jagiellon, Duchess of Bavaria, Polish princess (d. 1502)
• November 16 – Beatrice of Naples, Hungarian Queen (d. 1508)
• 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
• September 22 – Peter II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1418)
• 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