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

Events

January–December

• February 7 – John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk, marries Lady Margaret Beaufort.
• 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 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.
• 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.

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• A religious sacrifice of over a hundred children was performed around this time, outside of the ancient city of Chan Chan (near modern Trujillo), on the north coast of Peru<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/06/science/peru-child-sacrifice.html</ref><ref>https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2019/02/chimu-people-sacrificed-children-llamas-peru-mystery/</ref>.
• Johannes Gutenberg has set up his movable type printing press, as a commercial operation in Mainz, by this date.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Births

• 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, English explorer (d. 1499)
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  • 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)
  • Hugh Oldham, Bishop of Exeter (d. 1519)
  • Pietro Antonio Solari, Italian architect (d. 1493)
  • Petrus Thaborita, Dutch historian and monk (d. 1527)

Deaths

• January 9 – Adam Moleyns, Bishop of Chichester
• February 9 – Agnès Sorel, mistress of Charles VII of France (b. 1421)
• April 8 – Sejong the Great of Joseon, ruler of Korea (b. 1397)
• May 2 – William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, English military leader (born 1396)
• May 9 – 'Abd al-Latif, ruler of Transoxania
• July 2 – Ranuccio Farnese il Vecchio, Italian condottiero (b. c. 1390)
• July 4 – James Fiennes, 1st Baron Saye and Sele
• July 18 – Francis I, Duke of Brittany (b. 1414)
• July 26 – Cecily Neville, Duchess of Warwick (b. 1424)
• August 15 – Alberto da Sarteano, Italian Franciscan friar and papal legate (b. 1385)
• August 27 – Reginald West, 6th Baron De La Warr, English politician (b. 1395)
• August 31 – Isabella of Navarre, Countess of Armagnac (b. 1395)
• September 16 – Louis Aleman, French cardinal
• September 22 – William Tresham, English politician
• October 1 – Leonello d'Este, Marquis of Ferrara, Italian noble (b. 1407)
• November 3 – Paola Colonna, Lady of Piombino (b. c. 1378)
• November 5 – John IV, Count of Armagnac (b. 1396)