Calendar year
Year 1450 (MCDL 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 .[ 1] 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 Solefields (Sevenoaks): Jack Cade 's rebels are driven from London by loyal troops.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 .
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Births
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
probable
Kamāl ud-Dīn Behzād , Persian leader of the Herat schoolHieronymus 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 )Nyai Gede Pinateh , Javanese merchant (d. 1500 )
Deaths
January 9 – Adam Moleyns , English courtier and Bishop of ChichesterFebruary 9 – Agnès Sorel , mistress of Charles VII of France (b. c. 1422 )[ 6] 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 – Abdal-Latif Mirza , ruler of TransoxaniaJuly 2 – Ranuccio Farnese il Vecchio , Italian condottiero (b. c. 1390 )July 4 – James Fiennes, 1st Baron Saye and Sele , English soldier and politician (b. c. 1395)July 18 – Francis I, Duke of Brittany (b. 1414 )July 26 – 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 cardinalSeptember 22 – William Tresham , English politicianOctober 1 – Leonello d'Este, Marquis of Ferrara , Italian noble (b. 1407 )November 3 – Paola Colonna , Lady of Piombino (b. c. 1378 )November 5 – John IV, Count of Armagnac (b. 1396 )
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