1452

Events 
 March – Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor becomes the last to be crowned in Rome.
 Portuguese navigator Diogo de Teive discovers Corvo Island in the Azores.
 18 June – Pope Nicholas V issues the bull Dum Diversas, legitimising the colonial slave trade.
 October – English troops under John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, land in Guyenne, France, and retake most of the province without a fight.
 A major eruption of the South Pacific volcano Kuwae in Vanuatu has a subsequent global cooling effect (the eruption released more sulfate than any other event in the past 700 years).
 Battle of Bealach nam Broig, a Scottish clan battle.
 Murder of William Douglas, 8th Earl of Douglas by James II of Scotland at Stirling Castle.
 Revolt of Ghent: Forces of Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, clash multiple times with rebel militia from Ghent in the region around Ghent.

 Births 
 February 6 – Joana, Crown Princess of Portugal (d. 1490)
 March 10 – King Ferdinand II of Aragon (d. 1516)
 April 15 – Leonardo da Vinci, Italian artist and inventor (d. 1519)
 April 19 – King Frederick IV of Naples (d. 1504)
 July 10 – King James III of Scotland (d. 1488)
 July 27 – Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan (d. 1508)
 September 21 – Girolamo Savonarola, Italian religious reformer and ruler of Florence (d. 1498)
 October 2 – King Richard III of England (d. 1485)
 December 10 – Johannes Stöffler, German mathematician (d. 1531)

 Deaths 
 February 10 
 Svitrigaila, Grand Prince of Lithuania
 Michał Bolesław Zygmuntowicz, Prince of Black Ruthenia
 May 26 – John Stafford, Archbishop of Canterbury
 December 12 – Guillaume Huin d'Estaing, Catholic cardinal
 date unknown
 Nicholas Close, English bishop
 Gemistus Pletho, philosopher
 William Douglas, 8th Earl of Douglas