# 1449

Year 1449 (MCDXLIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar.

## Events
### January–December

* January 6 – Constantine XI Palaiologos is crowned Byzantine Emperor at Mistra; he will be the last in a line of rulers that can be traced to the founding of Rome.
* February – Alexăndrel seizes the throne of Moldavia, with the support of the boyars.
* March 24 – Hundred Years' War: English forces capture Fougères in Brittany.
* April 7 – The last Antipope, Felix V, abdicates.
* April 19 – Pope Nicholas V is elected by the Council of Basel.
* April 25 – The Council of Basel dissolves itself.
* May – An English privateering fleet led by Robert Wennington challenges ships of the Hanseatic League.
* May 14 – Second Siege of Sfetigrad (1449): The Albanian garrison surrenders and the Ottomans seize the fortress.
* May 20 – Battle of Alfarrobeira: King Afonso V of Portugal defeats the forces of Peter, Duke of Coimbra.
* July – Hundred Years' War: The French invade Normandy.
* August 13 – First Margrave War: Margrave Albrecht takes Lichtenau Fortress from Nuremberg.
* September 1 – Battle of Tumu Fortress: The Oirat Mongols defeat the Ming dynasty army, and capture the Zhengtong Emperor of China; the latter is officially deposed, while his brother ascends as the Jingtai Emperor the next year.
* October – Bogdan II of Moldavia enters the country with troops from John Hunyadi, and takes the throne after Alexăndrel flees.
* October 29 – The French recapture Rouen from the English.

## Births

* January 1 – Lorenzo de' Medici, Italian statesman (d. 1492)
* January 17 – Osanna of Mantua, Italian Dominican tertiary (d. 1505)
* February 7 – Adriana of Nassau-Siegen, consort of Count Philip I of Hanau-Münzenberg (d. 1477)
* April 27 – Asakura Ujikage, 8th head of the Asakura clan of Japan (d. 1486)
* August 10 – Bona of Savoy, Duchess of Savoy (d. 1503)
* September 20 – Philipp I, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg, German noble (d. 1500)
* October 21 – George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence, brother of Edward IV of England and Richard III of England (d. 1478)
* November 11 – Catherine of Poděbrady, Hungarian Queen (d. 1464)
* November 14 – Sidonie of Poděbrady, Bohemian princess, duchess consort of Saxony (d. 1510)
* December 6 – Dorotea Gonzaga, Italian noble (d. 1467)
* date unknown
** Aldus Manutius, Italian printer
** Archibald Douglas, 5th Earl of Angus (d. 1513)
** Axayacatl, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan (d. 1481)
** Domenico Gagini, Italian sculptor (d. 1492)
** Domenico Ghirlandaio, Italian artist (d. 1494)
** Magnus Hundt, German physician and theologian (d. 1519)
** Margaret of Thuringia, Electress consort of Brandenburg (d. 1501)
* probable
** Ilham Ghali khan of Kazan Khanate, (d. 1490)
** Srimanta Sankardeva, Assamese scholar and religious figure (d. c. 1568)
** Mandukhai Khatun, Mongolian queen

## Deaths

* January 4 – Cecilia of Brandenburg, Duchess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (b. c.1405)
* January 21 – Giovanni Berardi, Archbishop of Taranto (b. 1380)
* February 2 – Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, Islamic scholar (b. 1372)
* March – Dolce dell'Anguillara, Italian condottiero (b. 1401)
* May – Alexander of Islay, Earl of Ross, Lord of the Isles
* May 20 (at the Battle of Alfarrobeira)
** Álvaro Vaz de Almada, 1st Count of Avranches
** Peter, Duke of Coimbra (b. 1392)
* June 1 – Polissena Sforza, Lady of Rimini (b. 1428)
* August 13 – Louis IV, Elector Palatine (b. 1424)
* October 27 – Ulugh Beg, Timurid ruler and astronomer (b. 1394)
* October 31 – Elisabeth of Brandenburg, Duchess of Brzeg-Legnica and Cieszyn, German princess (b. 1403)
* November 19 – Kunigunde of Sternberg, first spouse of the King George of Podebrady (b. 1425)
* December 24 – Walter Bower, Scottish chronicler (b. 1385)