1450

Calendar year

Millennium:  | 2nd millennium

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Centuries:  |

* 14th century
* 15th century
* 16th century

Decades:  |

* 1430s
* 1440s
* 1450s
* 1460s
* 1470s

Years:  |

* 1447
* 1448
* 1449
* 1450
* 1451
* 1452
* 1453

1450 by topic

Arts and science

* Architecture
* Art

Leaders

* Political entities
* State leaders
* Religious leaders

Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments – Disestablishments
Art and literature
1450 in poetry

* v
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1450 in various calendarsGregorian calendar| 1450
MCDL

|

Ab urbe condita| 2203
Armenian calendar| 899
ԹՎ ՊՂԹ
Assyrian calendar| 6200
Balinese saka calendar| 1371–1372
Bengali calendar| 857
Berber calendar| 2400
English Regnal year| 28 Hen. 6 – 29 Hen. 6
Buddhist calendar| 1994
Burmese calendar| 812
Byzantine calendar| 6958–6959
Chinese calendar| 己巳年 (Earth Snake)
4147 or 3940
— to —
庚午年 (Metal Horse)
4148 or 3941
Coptic calendar| 1166–1167
Discordian calendar| 2616
Ethiopian calendar| 1442–1443
Hebrew calendar| 5210–5211
Hindu calendars|
\- Vikram Samvat| 1506–1507
\- Shaka Samvat| 1371–1372
\- Kali Yuga| 4550–4551
Holocene calendar| 11450
Igbo calendar| 450–451
Iranian calendar| 828–829
Islamic calendar| 853–854
Japanese calendar| Hōtoku 2
(宝徳２年)
Javanese calendar| 1365–1366
Julian calendar| 1450
MCDL
Korean calendar| 3783
Minguo calendar| 462 before ROC
民前462年
Nanakshahi calendar| −18
Thai solar calendar| 1992–1993
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

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

## Events[edit]

### January-December[edit]

* 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[edit]

* 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[edit]

* 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[edit]

* January 9 - Adam Moleyns, English courtier and Bishop of Chichester
* February 9 - Agnès Sorel, mistress of Charles VII of France (b. c. 1422)[6]
* April 8 - Sejong the Great of Joseon, ruler of Korea (b. 1397)
* May 2 - William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, English military leader (born 1396)
* May 9 - Abdal-Latif Mirza, ruler of Transoxania
* July 2 - Ranuccio Farnese il Vecchio, Italian condottiero (b. c. 1390)
* July 4 - James Fiennes, 1st Baron Saye and Sele, English soldier and politician (b. c. 1395)
* July 18 - Francis I, Duke of Brittany (b. 1414)
* July 26 - Cecily Neville, Duchess of Warwick (b. 1424)
* August 15 - Alberto da Sarteano, Italian Franciscan friar and papal legate (b. 1385)
* August 27 - Reginald West, 6th Baron De La Warr, English politician (b. 1395)
* August 31 - Isabella of Navarre, Countess of Armagnac (b. 1395)
* September 16 - Louis Aleman, French cardinal
* September 22 - William Tresham, English politician
* October 1 - Leonello d'Este, Marquis of Ferrara, Italian noble (b. 1407)
* November 3 - Paola Colonna, Lady of Piombino (b. c. 1378)
* November 5 - John IV, Count of Armagnac (b. 1396)

## References[edit]

1. ^ The Camden Miscellany. Camden Society. 1972. p. 209\. ISBN 9780901050069.
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. Archived from the original on 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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