1450
| Years |
|---|
| Millennium |
| 2nd millennium |
| Centuries |
| Decades |
| Years |
| 1450 by topic |
|---|
| Arts and science |
| Leaders |
| Birth and death categories |
| Births – Deaths |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories |
| Establishments – Disestablishments |
| Art and literature |
| 1450 in poetry |
| Gregorian calendar | 1450 MCDL |
| Ab urbe condita | 2203 |
| Armenian calendar | 899 ԹՎ ՊՂԹ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6200 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1371–1372 |
| Bengali calendar | 856–857 |
| 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 of the Julian calendar.
Events
[edit]January–December
[edit]- January 19 – The Jingtai Era begins in China under the Emperor Daizong, and the Zhengtong Era ends after 14 years.
- January 19 – King James II of Scotland gives royal assent to numerous acts passed by the Scottish Parliament in 1449, including the Leases Act 1449 ("Of takis of landis for termes and takis of wedset (mortgaged) landis eftir the oute quyting of the lande"), the Coinage Act, the Parties Summoned to King's Council Act and the Statute Law Revision Act ("Persons chosyn of the thre estatis til examyn the actis of parliamentis and general counsallis"). [1]
- February 7 – John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk, marries Lady Margaret Beaufort.[2]
- 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 11 – The First Margrave War comes to an end in Germany as [[Albrecht III Achilles, Elector of Brandenburg, is defeated by Nuremberg troops a t the battle of Pillenreuther Reiher.
- March 25 – Francesco I Sforza becomes the Duke of Milan, restoring the Duchy of Milan and bringing an end to the Golden Ambrosian Republic that had governed Milan.
- March – French troops under Guy de Richemont besiege the English commander in France, Edmund Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset, in Caen.
- April 15 – The Battle of Formigny takes place as 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][3]
- 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.
- June 20 – The First Margrave War between Nuremberg and Brandenburg ends with the signing of a peace treaty at Bamberg. Under the treaty, Albrecht III Achilles, Elector of Brandenburg, is forced to return all lands that he had captured from Nuremberg.
- 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.[4]
- 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.[5][6]
- Johannes Gutenberg has set up his movable type printing press, as a commercial operation in Mainz, by this date.[7]
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, Italian-born 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)
- 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)[8]
- 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]- ^ Alexander, William (1841). "Acta Parliamentorum Regis Jacobi Secundi". An Abridgement of the Acts of the Parliaments of Scotland. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black. pp. 440–441 – via Google Books.
- ^ The Camden Miscellany. Camden Society. 1972. p. 209. ISBN 9780901050069.
- ^ ].Rogers, Clifford (2010). The Oxford Encyclopedia of Medieval Warfare and Military Technology: Volume 1. Oxford University Press. p. 54. ISBN 978-0195334036.
- ^ "Historic Sanctuary of Machu Picchu — UNESCO World Heritage Centre". UNESCO. 2006. Retrieved December 9, 2006.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ François Guizot (1885). The History of France from the Earliest Times to 1848. J.B. Millar & Company. p. 299.