1451
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 14th century – 15th century – 16th century |
| Decades: | 1420s 1430s 1440s – 1450s – 1460s 1470s 1480s |
| Years: | 1448 1449 1450 – 1451 – 1452 1453 1454 |
| 1451 by topic |
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| Arts and science |
| Architecture - Art |
| Politics |
| State leaders - Sovereign states |
| Birth and death categories |
| Births - Deaths |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories |
| Establishments - Disestablishments |
| Art and literature |
| 1451 in poetry |
| Gregorian calendar | 1451 MCDLI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2204 |
| Armenian calendar | 900 ԹՎ Ջ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6201 |
| Bengali calendar | 858 |
| Berber calendar | 2401 |
| English Regnal year | 29 Hen. 6 – 30 Hen. 6 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1995 |
| Burmese calendar | 813 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6959–6960 |
| Chinese calendar | 庚午年 (Metal Horse) 4147 or 4087 — to — 辛未年 (Metal Goat) 4148 or 4088 |
| Coptic calendar | 1167–1168 |
| Discordian calendar | 2617 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1443–1444 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5211–5212 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1507–1508 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1373–1374 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4552–4553 |
| Holocene calendar | 11451 |
| Igbo calendar | 451–452 |
| Iranian calendar | 829–830 |
| Islamic calendar | 854–855 |
| Japanese calendar | Hōtoku 3 (宝徳３年) |
| Julian calendar | 1451 MCDLI |
| Korean calendar | 3784 |
| Minguo calendar | 461 before ROC 民前461年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1993–1994 |
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Year 1451 (MCDLI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
- February 3 – Murad II, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, dies and is succeeded by his son Mehmed II.
- February 14 – Louis XI of France marries Charlotte of Savoy.
- April 11 – Celje acquires market-town status and town rights by orders from Count Frederic II of Celje.
- April 19 – In the Delhi Sultanate, the Afghan Lodi dynasty succeeds the Turkish Sayyid dynasty.
- June 30 – French troops under the Comte de Dunois invade Guyenne and capture Bordeaux.
- August 20 – The French capture Bayonne, the last English stronghold in Guyenne.
- October 28 – Revolt of Ghent: Ghent takes up arms against Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy.
Date unknown
- The University of Glasgow is founded.
- Nicholas of Cusa invents concave lens spectacles to treat myopia.
Births
- January 14 – Franchinus Gaffurius, Italian composer (d. 1522)
- April 22 – Queen Isabella I of Castile (d. 1504)
- May 2 – René II, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1508)
- September 5 – Isabella Neville (d. 1476)
- date unknown – Christopher Columbus, Italian explorer (d. 1506)
Deaths
- February 3 – Murad II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1404)
- June – ‘Abdullah, Timurid Empire ruler
- July 11 – Barbara of Cilli, Slovenian noblewoman
- November 7 – Count Amadeus VIII of Savoy (b. 1383)
- date unknown
- Stefan Lochner, painter (b. 1400)
- John Lydgate, English monk and poet (b. 1370)
- al-Mustakfi II, Abbasid Caliph