Matthias Corvinus Elected King of Hungary
1457
The fifteen-year-old son of John Hunyadi, imprisoned in Prague, was elected by a diet of Magyar nobles desperate for strong leadership against the Ottomans. He would turn Hungary into a Renaissance power, assemble the Bibliotheca Corviniana, and build a Black Army of mercenaries that held the Turks at arm's length for decades.
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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.
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