Years: 1449 1450 1451 - 1452 - 1453 1454 1455

Decades: 1420s 1430s 1440s - 1450s - 1460s 1470s 1480s

Centuries: 14th century - 15th century - 16th century

Events

• October - English troops under John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, land in Guyenne, France, and retake most of the province without a fight.

Births

• March 10 - Ferdinand II of Aragon (d. 1516)
• April 15 - Leonardo da Vinci
• July 10 - King James III of Scotland (killed in 1488)
• July 27 - Ludovico Sforza, later Duke of Milan.
• September 21 -Girolamo Savonarola, religious reformer, briefly ruler of Florence (d. 1498)
• October 2 - King Richard III of England

Deaths

• May 26 - John Stafford, Archbishop of Canterbury