1450

Year 1450 (MCDL) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1450 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1450
MCDL
Ab urbe condita2203
Armenian calendar899
ԹՎ ՊՂԹ
Assyrian calendar6200
Balinese saka calendar1371–1372
Bengali calendar857
Berber calendar2400
English Regnal year28 Hen. 6  29 Hen. 6
Buddhist calendar1994
Burmese calendar812
Byzantine calendar6958–6959
Chinese calendar己巳年 (Earth Snake)
4146 or 4086
     to 
庚午年 (Metal Horse)
4147 or 4087
Coptic calendar1166–1167
Discordian calendar2616
Ethiopian calendar1442–1443
Hebrew calendar5210–5211
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1506–1507
 - Shaka Samvat1371–1372
 - Kali Yuga4550–4551
Holocene calendar11450
Igbo calendar450–451
Iranian calendar828–829
Islamic calendar853–854
Japanese calendarHōtoku 2
(宝徳2年)
Javanese calendar1365–1366
Julian calendar1450
MCDL
Korean calendar3783
Minguo calendar462 before ROC
民前462年
Nanakshahi calendar−18
Thai solar calendar1992–1993
Tibetan calendar阴土蛇年
(female Earth-Snake)
1576 or 1195 or 423
     to 
阳金马年
(male Iron-Horse)
1577 or 1196 or 424

Events

JanuaryDecember

  • February 7 John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk, marries Lady Margaret Beaufort.[1]
  • February 26 Francesco Sforza enters Milan after a siege, becoming Duke of the city-state, and founding a dynasty that will rule Milan for a century.
  • March French troops under Guy de Richemont besiege the English commander in France, Edmund Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset, in Caen.
  • April 15 Battle of Formigny: French troops under the Comte de Clermont defeat an English army under Sir Thomas Kyriel and Sir Matthew Gough, which was attempting to relieve Caen.
  • May 8 Jack Cade's Rebellion: Kentishmen revolt against King Henry VI of England.
  • May 9 Abdal-Latif Mirza, a Timurid dynasty monarch, is assassinated.
  • May 13 Charles VIII of Sweden, also serving as Carl I of Norway, is declared deposed from the latter throne, in favor of Christian I of Denmark.
  • June 18 Battle of Solefields (Sevenoaks): Jack Cade's rebels are driven from London by loyal troops.
  • July 6 Caen surrenders to the French.
  • July 12 Jack Cade is slain in a skirmish.
  • August 12 Cherbourg, the last English territory in Normandy, surrenders to the French.
  • October 5 Jews are expelled from Lower Bavaria, by order of Duke Ludwig IX.
  • November 3 The University of Barcelona is founded.
  • November 23 First Siege of Krujë: Albanian troops are victorious, forcing an Ottoman army of approximately 100,000 men to retreat from Albania.

Date unknown

  • Machu Picchu (Quechua: Machu Pikchu, "Old mountain"), a pre-Columbian Inca site located 2,400 meters (7,875 ft) above sea level, is believed to be under construction.[2]
  • A religious sacrifice of over a hundred children is performed around this time, outside of the ancient city of Chan Chan (near modern Trujillo), on the north coast of Peru.[3][4]
  • Johannes Gutenberg has set up his movable type printing press, as a commercial operation in Mainz, by this date.[5]

Births

  • February 12 Yejong of Joseon, Joseon King (d. 1469)
  • May 18 Piero Soderini, Florentine statesman (d. 1513)
  • June 22 Eleanor of Naples, Duchess of Ferrara (d. 1493)
  • July 25 Jakob Wimpfeling, Renaissance humanist (d. 1528)
  • August 18 Marko Marulić, Croatian poet (d. 1524)
  • September 25 Ursula of Brandenburg, Duchess of Münsterberg-Oels and Countess of Glatz (d. 1508)
  • November 12 Jacques of Savoy, Count of Romont, Prince of Savoy (d. 1486)
  • date unknown
    • William Catesby, English politician (d. 1485)
    • Bartolomeo Montagna, Italian painter (d. 1523)
    • Heinrich Isaak, German-Dutch composer (d. 1517)
    • John Cabot, English explorer (d. 1499)
  • probable
    • Kamāl ud-Dīn Behzād, Persian leader of the Herat school
    • Hieronymus Bosch, Dutch painter (d. 1516)
    • Gaspar Corte-Real, Portuguese explorer (d. 1501)
    • Juan de la Cosa, Spanish navigator and cartographer (d. 1510)
    • Josquin des Prez, Dutch composer (d. 1521)
    • Heinrich Isaac, Franco-Flemish composer (d. 1517)
    • Hugh Oldham, Bishop of Exeter (d. 1519)
    • Pietro Antonio Solari, Italian architect (d. 1493)
    • Petrus Thaborita, Dutch historian and monk (d. 1527)
    • Nyai Gede Pinateh, Javanese merchant (d. 1500)

Deaths

References

  1. The Camden Miscellany. Camden Society. 1972. p. 209.
  2. "Historic Sanctuary of Machu Picchu — UNESCO World Heritage Centre". UNESCO. 2006. Retrieved December 9, 2006.
  3. Fleur, Nicholas St (March 6, 2019). "Massacre of Children in Peru Might Have Been a Sacrifice to Stop Bad Weather". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved December 31, 2019.
  4. "What made this ancient society sacrifice its own children?". Magazine. January 15, 2019. Retrieved December 31, 2019.
  5. Klooster, John W. (2009). Icons of invention: the makers of the modern world from Gutenberg to Gates. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO. p. 8. ISBN 978-0-313-34745-0.
  6. François Guizot (1885). The History of France from the Earliest Times to 1848. J.B. Millar & Company. p. 299.
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