# 1450

Year 1450 (MCDL) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar.

## Events
### January–December

* 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 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.

### Date unknown

* 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.
* A religious sacrifice of over a hundred children is performed around this time, outside of the ancient city of Chan Chan (near modern Trujillo), on the north coast of Peru.
* Johannes Gutenberg has set up his movable type printing press, as a commercial operation in Mainz, by this date.

## 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
** William Catesby, English politician (d. 1485)
** Bartolomeo Montagna, Italian painter (d. 1523)
** Heinrich Isaak, German-Dutch composer (d. 1517)
** John Cabot, Italian-born 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)
** 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 Chichester
* February 9 – Agnès Sorel, mistress of Charles VII of France (b. c. 1422)
* 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 Transoxania
* July 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 cardinal
* September 22 – William Tresham, English politician
* October 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)