1450
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| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 14th century – 15th century – 16th century |
| Decades: | 1420s 1430s 1440s – 1450s – 1460s 1470s 1480s |
| Years: | 1447 1448 1449 – 1450 – 1451 1452 1453 |
| 1450 by topic |
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| 1450 in poetry |
| Gregorian calendar | 1450 MCDL |
| Ab urbe condita | 2203 |
| Armenian calendar | 899 ԹՎ ՊՂԹ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6200 |
| 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) 4146 or 4086 — to — 庚午年 (Metal Horse) 4147 or 4087 |
| Coptic calendar | 1166–1167 |
| Discordian calendar | 2616 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1442–1443 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5210–5211 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1506–1507 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1372–1373 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4551–4552 |
| Holocene calendar | 11450 |
| Igbo calendar | 450–451 |
| Iranian calendar | 828–829 |
| Islamic calendar | 853–854 |
| Japanese calendar | Hōtoku 2 (宝徳２年) |
| Julian calendar | 1450 MCDL |
| Korean calendar | 3783 |
| Minguo calendar | 462 before ROC 民前462年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1992–1993 |
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Year 1450 (MCDL) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
- February 7 – John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk, marries Lady Margaret Beaufort.
- February 26 – Francesco Sforza enters Milan after a siege, becoming Duke of the city-state and founding a dynasty that would 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 Seven Oaks: Jack Cade's rebels are driven from London by loyal troops, bringing about the collapse of the rebellion.
- 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 victory; Ottoman army of approximately 100,000 men retreats from Albania.
Date unknown
- Wolves enter Paris and kill 40 citizens.
- Machu Picchu (Quechua: Machu Pikchu, "Old mountain") a pre-Columbian Inca site located 2,400 meters (7,875 ft) above sea level believed to be under construction.[1]
- Johannes Gutenberg has set up his movable type printing press as a commercial operation in Mainz by this date.[2]
Births
- May 18 – Piero Soderini, Florentine statesman (d. 1513)
- August 18 – Marko Marulić, Croatian poet (d. 1524)
- date unknown
- William Catesby, English politician (d. 1485)
- Bartolomeo Montagna, Italian painter (d. 1523)
- Heinrich Isaak, German-Dutch composer (d. 1517)
- John Cabot, explorer (d. 1499)
- probable
- Kamāl ud-Dīn Behzād, 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)
Deaths
- January 9 – Adam Moleyns, Bishop of Chichester
- February 9 – Agnès Sorel, mistress of Charles VII of France (b. 1421)
- 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 – 'Abd al-Latif, ruler of Transoxonia
- June 10 – William Tresham, English politician
- July 2 – Ranuccio Farnese il Vecchio, Italian condottiero (b. c.1390)
- July 4 – James Fiennes, 1st Baron Saye and Sele
- July 18 – Francis I, Duke of Brittany (b. 1414)
- July 28 – 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
- November 3 – Paola Colonna, Lady of Piombino (born c.1378)
- November 5 – John IV, Count of Armagnac (born 1396)
