1450

1450

Year 1450 was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1450

February 7 - John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk, marries Lady Margaret Beaufort.
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.
May 9 - 'Abd al-Latif Mirza (a Timurid monarch) is assassinated.
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.
August 12 - Cherbourg, the last English territory in Normandy, surrenders to the French.

The University of Barcelona is founded.
Charles VIII of Sweden (who was also serving as Carl I of Norway) is declared deposed from the later throne in favor of Christian I of Denmark.
Wolves enter Paris and kill 40 citizens.

May 18 - Piero Soderini, Florentine statesman (d. 1513)
August 18 - Marko Marulic, Croatian poet (d. 1524)
date unknown
- William Catesby, English politician (d. 1485)
- Bartolomeo Montagna, Italian painter (d. 1523)
- Heinrich Isaak, German-Dutch composer (d. 1517)
- Josquin des Pres, Dutch composer (d. 1521)
probable
- Hieronymus Bosch, Dutch painter (d. 1516)
- Petrus Thaborita, Dutch historian and monk (d. 1527)
- Gaspar Corte-Real, Portuguese explorer (d. 1501)
- Heinrich Isaac, Franco-Flemish composer (d. 1517)
- Hugh Oldham, Bishop of Exisist

(d. 1519)