1451

Year 1451 (MCDLI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century 15th century 16th century
Decades:	1430s 1440s 1450s 1460s 1470s
Years:	1448 1449 1450 1451 1452 1453 1454

1451 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1451 MCDLI
Ab urbe condita	2204
Armenian calendar	900 ԹՎ Ջ
Assyrian calendar	6201
Balinese saka calendar	1372–1373
Bengali calendar	858
Berber calendar	2401
English Regnal year	29 Hen. 6 – 30 Hen. 6
Buddhist calendar	1995
Burmese calendar	813
Byzantine calendar	6959–6960
Chinese calendar	庚午年 (Metal Horse) 4148 or 3941     — to — 辛未年 (Metal Goat) 4149 or 3942
Coptic calendar	1167–1168
Discordian calendar	2617
Ethiopian calendar	1443–1444
Hebrew calendar	5211–5212
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1507–1508
- Shaka Samvat	1372–1373
- Kali Yuga	4551–4552
Holocene calendar	11451
Igbo calendar	451–452
Iranian calendar	829–830
Islamic calendar	854–855
Japanese calendar	Hōtoku 3 (宝徳３年)
Javanese calendar	1366–1367
Julian calendar	1451 MCDLI
Korean calendar	3784
Minguo calendar	461 before ROC 民前461年
Nanakshahi calendar	−17
Thai solar calendar	1993–1994
Tibetan calendar	阳金马年 (male Iron-Horse) 1577 or 1196 or 424     — to — 阴金羊年 (female Iron-Goat) 1578 or 1197 or 425

Events

January–December

• January 7 – Pope Nicholas V issues a Papal Bull^[1] to establish The University of Glasgow; classes are initially held in Glasgow Cathedral.
• February 3 – Murad II, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, dies and is succeeded (on February 18) by his son, Mehmed II.
• February 14 – Louis XI of France marries Charlotte of Savoy.
• April 11 – Celje acquires market town status and town rights, by orders from Count Frederic II of Celje.
• April 19 – In the Delhi Sultanate, the Afghan Lodi Dynasty succeeds the Turkish Sayyid Dynasty.
• June 30 – French troops under Jean de Dunois invade Guyenne, and capture Bordeaux.
• August 20 – The French capture Bayonne, the last English stronghold in Guyenne.
• October – After assassinating Bogdan II of Moldavia, Petru Aron takes up the throne.
• October 28 – Revolt of Ghent: Ghent takes up arms against Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy.

Date unknown

• The Great Peacemaker along with Jigonhsasee and Hiawatha, found the Haudenosaunee, commonly called the Iroquois Confederacy

Births

Christopher Columbus

• January 14 – Franchinus Gaffurius, Italian composer (d. 1522)
• January 29 – John, Prince of Portugal, Prince of Portugal (d. 1451)
• February 17 – Raffaello Maffei, Italian theologian (d. 1522)
• March 5 – William Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, English earl (d. 1491)
• March 9 – Amerigo Vespucci, Italian explorer (d. 1512)^[2]
• April 22 – Queen Isabella I of Castile, Castillian queen regnant and first queen of a united Spain (by marriage to Ferdinand of Aragon) (d. 1504)^[3]
• May 2 – René II, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1508)
• May 17 – Engelbert II of Nassau, Count of Nassau-Vianden and Lord of Breda (1475–1504) (d. 1504)
• June 1 – Giles Daubeney, 1st Baron Daubeney (d. 1508)
• July 10 – James III of Scotland (d. 1488)^[4]
• September 5 – Isabel Neville, Duchess of Clarence, elder daughter of Richard Neville (d. 1476)^[5]
• November 29 – Elisabeth of Brandenburg, Duchess of Württemberg (d. 1524)
• date unknown
  • Christopher Columbus, Italian explorer (d. 1506)^[6]
  • Ignatius Noah of Lebanon, Syriac Orthodox patriarch of Antioch (d. 1509).^[7]
  • Guru Jambheshwar (d. 1536) Founder of the Bishnoi Panth

Deaths

Sultan Murad II

• January 7 – Antipope Felix V (b. 1383)
• January 18 – Henry II, Count of Nassau-Siegen, Co-ruler of Nassau-Siegen (1442–1451) (b. 1414)^[8]
• February 3 – Murad II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1404)
• June – ‘Abdullah, Timurid Empire ruler
• July 11 – Barbara of Cilli, Holy Roman Empress, queen consort of Hungary and Bohemia (b. 1392)
• October – Bogdan II of Moldavia, assassinated by Petru Aron
• date unknown
  • Stefan Lochner, German painter (b. 1400)
  • John Lydgate, English monk and poet (b. 1370)
  • al-Mustakfi II, Abbasid Caliph

References

1. "University of Glasgow :: Story :: The Papal Bull".
2. Chase's Editors; Contemporary Books (September 2002). Chase's Calendar of Events 2003. McGraw-Hill. p. 169. ISBN 978-0-07-139098-9.
3. Peggy K. Liss (2004). Isabel the Queen: Life and Times. University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 9. ISBN 978-0-8122-1897-8.
4. "King James III: Biography on Undiscovered Scotland". www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk. Retrieved January 29, 2021.
5. Amy Licence (April 15, 2013). Anne Neville: Richard III's Tragic Queen. Amberley Publishing Limited. pp. 29–. ISBN 978-1-4456-1177-8.
6. "Christopher Columbus | Biography, Voyages, & Facts". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved January 21, 2021.
7. Barsoum, Aphrem (2003). The Scattered Pearls: A History of Syriac Literature and Sciences. Translated by Matti Moosa (2nd ed.). Gorgias Press. pp. 508–509. Retrieved July 14, 2020.
8. Van den Berg, F.M. (1992). "Een Nassau's graf in Italië". In Van der Klooster, L.J.; Tiethoff-Spliethoff, M.E.; Tamse, C.A. & Elzenga, E. (eds.). Militaire entourage rondom Oranje en andere bijdragen over het Huis van Oranje. Oranje-Nassau Museum Jaarboek 1992 (in Dutch). Zutphen: Walburg Pers. p. 89. ISBN 90-6011-812-X.