Editing 1450

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{{C15 year in topic}}Year '''1450''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MCDL]]''') was a [[common year starting on Thursday]] of the [[Julian calendar]].

== Events ==
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=== January&ndash;December ===
* [[February 7]] &ndash; [[John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk]], marries [[Lady Margaret Beaufort]].<ref>{{cite book|title=The Camden Miscellany|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=384MAQAAMAAJ|year=1972|publisher=Camden Society|page=209| isbn=9780901050069 }}</ref>
* [[February 26]] &ndash; [[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]] &ndash; [[Kingdom of France|French]] troops under Guy de Richemont besiege the [[Kingdom of England|English]] [[commander]] in [[France]], [[Edmund Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset]], in [[Caen]].
* [[April 15]] &ndash; [[Battle of Formigny]]: [[Kingdom of France|French]] troops under the [[John II, Duke of Bourbon|Comte de Clermont]] defeat an English army under [[Sir Thomas Kyriel]] and Sir Matthew Gough, which was attempting to relieve [[Caen]].
* [[May 8]] &ndash; [[Jack Cade's Rebellion]]: [[Kent]]ishmen revolt against King [[Henry VI of England]].
* [[May 9]] &ndash; [[Abdal-Latif Mirza]], a [[Timurid dynasty]] monarch, is assassinated.
* [[May 13]] &ndash; [[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]] &ndash; Battle of Solefields (Sevenoaks): [[Jack Cade]]'s rebels are driven from [[London]] by loyal troops.
* [[July 6]] &ndash; [[Caen]] surrenders to the [[Kingdom of France|French]]. 
* [[July 12]] &ndash; [[Jack Cade]] is slain in a skirmish.
* [[August 12]] &ndash; [[Cherbourg]], the last [[England|English]] territory in [[Normandy]], surrenders to the [[Kingdom of France|French]]. 
* [[October 5]] &ndash; [[Jews]] are expelled from [[Lower Bavaria]], by order of Duke [[Louis IX, Duke of Bavaria|Ludwig IX]].
* [[November 3]] &ndash; The [[University of Barcelona]] is founded.
* [[November 23]] &ndash; [[First Siege of Krujë]]: [[League of Lezhë|Albanian]] troops are victorious, forcing an [[Ottoman army]] of approximately 100,000 men to retreat from [[Venetian Albania|Albania]].

=== Date unknown ===
* [[Machu Picchu]] ([[Quechua language|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.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://whc.unesco.org/pg.cfm?cid=31&id_site=274 |title=Historic Sanctuary of Machu Picchu — UNESCO World Heritage Centre|year=2006|access-date=9 December 2006|publisher=[[UNESCO]]}}</ref>
* A religious sacrifice of over a hundred children is performed around this time, outside of the ancient city of [[Chan Chan]] (near modern [[Trujillo, Peru|Trujillo]]), on the north coast of [[Peru]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/06/science/peru-child-sacrifice.html|title=Massacre of Children in Peru Might Have Been a Sacrifice to Stop Bad Weather|last=Fleur|first=Nicholas St|date=2019-03-06|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-12-31|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2019/02/chimu-people-sacrificed-children-llamas-peru-mystery/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190115175620/https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2019/02/chimu-people-sacrificed-children-llamas-peru-mystery/|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 15, 2019|title=What made this ancient society sacrifice its own children?|date=2019-01-15|website=Magazine|language=en|access-date=2019-12-31}}</ref>
* [[Johannes Gutenberg]] has set up his movable type [[Gutenberg press|printing press]], as a commercial operation in [[Mainz]], by this date.<ref>{{cite book|last=Klooster|first=John W.|title=Icons of invention: the makers of the modern world from Gutenberg to Gates|year=2009|publisher=ABC-CLIO|location=Santa Barbara, CA|isbn=978-0-313-34745-0|page=8}}</ref></onlyinclude>

== Births ==
* [[February 12]] &ndash; [[Yejong of Joseon]], Joseon King (d. [[1469]])
* [[May 18]] &ndash; [[Piero Soderini]], Florentine statesman (d. [[1513]])
* [[June 22]] &ndash; [[Eleanor of Naples, Duchess of Ferrara]] (d. [[1493]])
* [[July 25]] &ndash; [[Jakob Wimpfeling]], Renaissance humanist (d. [[1528]])
* [[August 18]] &ndash; [[Marko Marulić]], Croatian poet (d. [[1524]])
* [[September 25]] &ndash; [[Ursula of Brandenburg, Duchess of Münsterberg-Oels]] and Countess of Glatz (d. [[1508]])
* [[November 12]] &ndash; [[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]])

== Deaths ==
* [[January 9]] &ndash; [[Adam Moleyns]], English courtier and Bishop of Chichester
* [[February 9]] &ndash; [[Agnès Sorel]], mistress of [[Charles VII of France]] (b. c. [[1422]])<ref>{{cite book|author=François Guizot|title=The History of France from the Earliest Times to 1848|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FIE_AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA299|year=1885|publisher=J.B. Millar & Company|pages=299}}</ref>
* [[April 8]] &ndash; [[Sejong the Great of Joseon]], ruler of Korea (b. [[1397]])
* [[May 2]] &ndash; [[William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk]], English military leader (born [[1396]])
* [[May 9]] &ndash; [[Abdal-Latif Mirza]], ruler of Transoxania
* [[July 2]] &ndash; [[Ranuccio Farnese il Vecchio]], Italian ''condottiero'' (b. c. [[1390]])
* [[July 4]] &ndash; [[James Fiennes, 1st Baron Saye and Sele]], English soldier and politician (b. c. 1395)
* [[July 18]] &ndash; [[Francis I, Duke of Brittany]] (b. [[1414]])
* [[July 26]] &ndash; [[Cecily Neville, Duchess of Warwick]] (b. [[1424]])
* [[August 15]] &ndash; [[Alberto da Sarteano]], Italian Franciscan friar and papal legate (b. [[1385]])
* [[August 27]] &ndash; [[Reginald West, 6th Baron De La Warr]], English politician (b. [[1395]])
* [[August 31]] &ndash; [[Isabella of Navarre, Countess of Armagnac]] (b. [[1395]])
* [[September 16]] &ndash; [[Louis Aleman]], French cardinal
* [[September 22]] &ndash; [[William Tresham]], English politician
* [[October 1]] &ndash; [[Leonello d'Este, Marquis of Ferrara]], Italian noble (b. [[1407]])
* [[November 3]] &ndash; [[Paola Colonna]], Lady of Piombino (b. c. [[1378]])
* [[November 5]] &ndash; [[John IV, Count of Armagnac]] (b. [[1396]])

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