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November 1458: Portugal, England, Naples
Portuguese Campaign in Morocco
 • Oleg Eterevsky
October 1458: Michael Szilágyi Imprisoned; Venice Reins in the Council of Ten; Truce in Thirteen Years' War
When Matthias Corvinus had been elected king of Hungary in January at the age of fourteen, the Hungarian Diet had appointed his uncle Michael Szilágyi…
 • Oleg Eterevsky
September 1458: Schism in the Orthodox Church; the Spread of Printing
In late 1458, the period of uncertainty in the hierarchy of the Eastern Orthodox church that had persisted since 1441 reached its resolution.
 • Oleg Eterevsky
August 1458: Pope Pius II; Japanese Imperial Regalia
Pope Callixtus III died on August 6, 1458, after just three years on the papal throne.
 • Oleg Eterevsky
July 1458: Earl of Warwick, the Pirate; Magdalen College
By the summer of 1458, Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, had emerged as one of the most powerful magnates in England.
 • Oleg Eterevsky
June 1458: Death of Alfonso V of Aragon; Athens Surrender to Ottomans; Qara Qoyunlu Captures Herat
On 27 June 1458, Alfonso V of Aragon died in Castel dell'Ovo in Naples at the age of sixty-two.
 • Oleg Eterevsky
May 1458: Ottomans in Morea; Succession in the Bahmani Sultanate
By 1458, the Despotate of the Morea remained one of the last slivers of the old Byzantine Empire.
 • Oleg Eterevsky
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