1450

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century 15th century 16th century
Decades:	1430s 1440s 1450s 1460s 1470s
Years:	1447 1448 1449 1450 1451 1452 1453

1450 by topic
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Establishments - Disestablishments
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1450 in poetry

1450 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1450 MCDL
Ab urbe condita	2203
Armenian calendar	899 ԹՎ ՊՂԹ
Assyrian calendar	6200
Balinese saka calendar	1371–1372
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	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

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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

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 will 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 troops are victorious, forcing an Ottoman army of approximately 100,000 men to retreat from Albania.

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, is 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]

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, English 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)
- Hugh Oldham, Bishop of Exeter (d. 1519)
- Pietro Antonio Solari, Italian architect (d. 1493)
- Petrus Thaborita, Dutch historian and monk (d. 1527)

↑ "Historic Sanctuary of Machu Picchu — UNESCO World Heritage Centre". UNESCO. 2006. Retrieved 9 December 2006.
↑ 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.

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