1449
Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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Centuries: | 14th century – 15th century – 16th century |
Decades: | 1410s 1420s 1430s – 1440s – 1450s 1460s 1470s |
Years: | 1446 1447 1448 – 1449 – 1450 1451 1452 |
1449 by topic |
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1449 in poetry |
Gregorian calendar | 1449 MCDXLIX |
Ab urbe condita | 2202 |
Armenian calendar | 898 ԹՎ ՊՂԸ |
Assyrian calendar | 6199 |
Bengali calendar | 856 |
Berber calendar | 2399 |
English Regnal year | 27 Hen. 6 – 28 Hen. 6 |
Buddhist calendar | 1993 |
Burmese calendar | 811 |
Byzantine calendar | 6957–6958 |
Chinese calendar | 戊辰年 (Earth Dragon) 4145 or 4085 — to — 己巳年 (Earth Snake) 4146 or 4086 |
Coptic calendar | 1165–1166 |
Discordian calendar | 2615 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1441–1442 |
Hebrew calendar | 5209–5210 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1505–1506 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1371–1372 |
- Kali Yuga | 4550–4551 |
Holocene calendar | 11449 |
Igbo calendar | 449–450 |
Iranian calendar | 827–828 |
Islamic calendar | 852–853 |
Japanese calendar | Bunnan 6 / Hōtoku 1 (宝徳元年) |
Julian calendar | 1449 MCDXLIX |
Korean calendar | 3782 |
Minguo calendar | 463 before ROC 民前463年 |
Thai solar calendar | 1991–1992 |
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Year 1449 (MCDXLIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
- January 6 – Constantine XI Palaiologos is crowned Byzantine Emperor at Mistra. He will be the last in a line of rulers that can be traced to the founding of Rome.
- April 7 – The last Antipope, Felix V, abdicates.
- April 19 – Pope Nicholas V is elected by the Council of Basel.
- April 25 – The Council of Basel dissolves itself.
- May 14 – Second Siege of Sfetigrad (1449): Garrison surrenders and Ottomans seize the fortress.
- May 20 – Tensions between King Afonso V of Portugal and Peter, Duke of Coimbra erupt at the Battle of Alfarrobeira. Defeat of the Duke's forces.
- August 13 – First Margrave War: Albrecht III Achilles, Elector of Brandenburg takes Lichtenau Fortress from Nuremberg.
- September 3 – Battle of Tumu Fortress: The Oirat Mongols defeat the Ming dynasty army and capture the Zhengtong Emperor of China; the latter is officially deposed while his brother ascends as the Jingtai Emperor the next year.
- October 29 – The French recapture Rouen from the English.
Births
- January 1 – Lorenzo de' Medici, Italian statesman (d. 1492)
- January 17 – Blessed Osanna of Mantua, Dominican mystic (d. 1505)
- April 27 – Asakura Ujikage, Japanese clan head (d. 1486)
- October 8 – Bona of Savoy, Duchess of Milan (d. 1503)
- October 21 – George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence, brother of Edward IV of England and Richard III of England (d. 1478)
- date unknown
- Aldus Manutius, Italian printer
- Archibald Douglas, 5th Earl of Angus (d. 1513)
- Domenico Gagini, sculptor (d. 1492)
- Domenico Ghirlandaio, Italian artist (d. 1494)
- Magnus Hundt, German physician and theologian (d. 1519)
- Margaret of Thuringia, wife of the Elector of Brandenburg (d. 1501)
- probable
- Ilham Ghali khan of Kazan Khanate, (d. 1490)
- Srimanta Sankardeva, Assamese scholar and religious figure (d. c. 1568)
Deaths
- January 3 – Anne de Beauchamp, 15th Countess of Warwick (b. 1443)
- January 4 – Cecilia of Brandenburg, Duchess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (b. c.1405)
- January 21 – Giovanni Berardi, Archbishop of Taranto (b. 1380)
- March – Dolce dell'Anguillara, condottiero (b. 1401)
- May – Alexander of Islay, Earl of Ross, Lord of the Isles
- May 20 (at the Battle of Alfarrobeira)
- Álvaro Vaz de Almada, 1st Count of Avranches
- Infante Pedro, Duke of Coimbra (b. 1392)
- August 13 – Louis IV, Elector Palatine (b. 1424)
- October 27 – Ulugh Beg, Timurid ruler and astronomer (b. 1394)
- November 7 – Konrad von Erlichshausen, Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights
- December 24 – Walter Bower, Scottish chronicler (b. 1385)