1458 in England

Incumbents

• Monarch – Henry VI
• Lord Chancellor – William Waynflete
• Lord Privy Seal – Lawrence Booth

Events

• 25 March – The Love Day is staged in London, by which Henry VI of England attempts to unite the warring factions who have triggered the Wars of the Roses
• 15 July – foundation of Magdalen College, Oxford.
• May – Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick defeats a Spanish fleet in the English Channel.

Births

• Richard Grey, half brother of Edward V of England
• Thomas Docwra, Grand Prior of the English Knights Hospitaller
• Catherine Woodville, Duchess of Buckingham, noblewoman

Deaths

• Thomas Gascoigne, theologian
• Thomas de Courtenay, Earl of Devon, nobleman
• Humphrey Stafford, Earl of Stafford, nobleman
• John Shillingford, politician
• Thomas Rempston, soldier