1450

1450 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1450; MCDL
Ab urbe condita	2203
Armenian calendar	899; ԹՎ ՊՂԹ
Assyrian calendar	6200
Balinese saka calendar	1371–1372
Bengali calendar	856–857
Berber calendar	2400
English Regnal year	28 Hen. 6 – 29 Hen. 6
Buddhist calendar	1994
Burmese calendar	812
Byzantine calendar	6958–6959
Chinese calendar	己巳年 (Earth Snake); 4147 or 3940; — to —; 庚午年 (Metal Horse); 4148 or 3941
Coptic calendar	1166–1167
Discordian calendar	2616
Ethiopian calendar	1442–1443
Hebrew calendar	5210–5211
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1506–1507
- Shaka Samvat	1371–1372
- Kali Yuga	4550–4551
Holocene calendar	11450
Igbo calendar	450–451
Iranian calendar	828–829
Islamic calendar	853–854
Japanese calendar	Hōtoku 2; (宝徳２年)
Javanese calendar	1365–1366
Julian calendar	1450; MCDL
Korean calendar	3783
Minguo calendar	462 before ROC; 民前462年
Nanakshahi calendar	−18
Thai solar calendar	1992–1993
Tibetan calendar	阴土蛇年; (female Earth-Snake); 1576 or 1195 or 423; — to —; 阳金马年; (male Iron-Horse); 1577 or 1196 or 424

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century; 15th century ; 16th century;
Decades:	1430s; 1440s; 1450s ; 1460s; 1470s;
Years:	1447; 1448; 1449; 1450 ; 1451; 1452; 1453;
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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.

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.^[2]
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.^[3]^[4]
Johannes Gutenberg has set up his movable type printing press, as a commercial operation in Mainz, by this date.^[5]

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)

^ The Camden Miscellany. Camden Society. 1972. p. 209. ISBN 9780901050069.
^ "Historic Sanctuary of Machu Picchu — UNESCO World Heritage Centre". UNESCO. 2006. Retrieved December 9, 2006.
^ Fleur, Nicholas St (March 6, 2019). "Massacre of Children in Peru Might Have Been a Sacrifice to Stop Bad Weather". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved December 31, 2019.
^ "What made this ancient society sacrifice its own children?". Magazine. January 15, 2019. Archived from the original on January 15, 2019. Retrieved December 31, 2019.
^ Klooster, John W. (2009). Icons of invention: the makers of the modern world from Gutenberg to Gates. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO. p. 8. ISBN 978-0-313-34745-0.
^ François Guizot (1885). The History of France from the Earliest Times to 1848. J.B. Millar & Company. p. 299.