1455
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 14th century – 15th century – 16th century |
| Decades: | 1420s 1430s 1440s – 1450s – 1460s 1470s 1480s |
| Years: | 1452 1453 1454 – 1455 – 1456 1457 1458 |
| 1455 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 |
| 1455 in poetry |
| Gregorian calendar | 1455 MCDLV |
| Ab urbe condita | 2208 |
| Armenian calendar | 904 ԹՎ ՋԴ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6205 |
| Bengali calendar | 862 |
| Berber calendar | 2405 |
| English Regnal year | 33 Hen. 6 – 34 Hen. 6 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1999 |
| Burmese calendar | 817 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6963–6964 |
| Chinese calendar | 甲戌年 (Wood Dog) 4151 or 4091 — to — 乙亥年 (Wood Pig) 4152 or 4092 |
| Coptic calendar | 1171–1172 |
| Discordian calendar | 2621 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1447–1448 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5215–5216 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1511–1512 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1377–1378 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4556–4557 |
| Holocene calendar | 11455 |
| Igbo calendar | 455–456 |
| Iranian calendar | 833–834 |
| Islamic calendar | 859–860 |
| Japanese calendar | Kyōtoku 4 / Kōshō 1 (康正元年) |
| Julian calendar | 1455 MCDLV |
| Korean calendar | 3788 |
| Minguo calendar | 457 before ROC 民前457年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1997–1998 |
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Year 1455 (MCDLV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
- January 8 – Pope Nicholas V publishes Romanus Pontifex, an encyclical addressed to King Afonso V of Portugal, which sanctions the conquest of non-Christian lands, and the reduction of native non-Christian populations to 'perpetual slavery,' in direct contradiction to the 1537 bull Sublimus Dei of Pope Paul III, which forbade the enslavement of non-Christians.
- February 23 – The Gutenberg Bible is the first book printed with movable type.
- April 8 – Pope Calixtus III succeeds Pope Nicholas V as the 209th pope.
- Spring – The Wars of the Roses begin.
- May 1 – Battle of Arkinholm: Forces loyal to King James II of Scotland defeat the supporters of Earl of Douglas.
- May 22 – First Battle of St Albans: Richard, Duke of York, defeats and captures King Henry VI of England.
- July – Siege of Berat.
Births
- February 2 – King John of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden (d. 1513)
- March 3 – King John II of Portugal (d. 1495)
- March 15 – Pietro Accolti, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1532)
- August 2 – John Cicero, Elector of Brandenburg (d. 1499)
- date unknown
- Peter Vischer the Elder, German sculptor (approximate date) (d. 1529)
- Nicholas Barnham, Knight, killed in the War of the Roses (d. 1485)
Deaths
- February 18 – Fra Angelico, Italian painter (b. 1395)
- March 24 – Pope Nicholas V (b. 1397)
- April 1 – Zbigniew Oleśnicki, Polish cardinal and statesman (b. 1389)
- May 1 – Archibald Douglas, Earl of Moray (in battle)
- May 22 (killed at the First Battle of St Albans)
- Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland, Lancastrian commander (b. 1393)
- Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset, Lancastrian commander (b. 1406)
- Thomas Clifford, 8th Baron de Clifford, Lancastrian commander (b. 1414)
- September 3 – Alonso Tostado, Spanish Catholic bishop
- October 22 – Johannes Brassart, Flemish composer
- December 1 – Lorenzo Ghiberti, Italian sculptor and metal smith (b. 1378)
- December 2 – Isabel of Coimbra, queen of Portugal (b. 1432)