1450

1450 (MCDL) was a common year beginning on a Thursday of the Julian calendar.

It is the year 1450 of the Common Era and anno Domini, the year 450 of the second millennium, the year 50 of the fifteenth century, and the first year of the 1450s.

Events

• Fundación de la Universidad de Barcelona.
• Invention of the printing press.
• Cristián I of Denmark becomes king of all Norway, after renouncing his opponent Charles VIII of Sweden.
• Moctezuma I begins the blossoming wars.
• Portuguese sailors bend Cape Verde in Africa.
• August 12 - Cherburgu, the last Norman city in power of the English, surrenders to the French.

Births

• Johannes Stabius - Austrian cartographer and mathematician.
• Hieronymo Boschio Pictori (El Bosco)

Deaths

• 1 October: Leonelo de Este