1452

1452 (MCDLII) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1452nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 452nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 52nd year of the 15th century, and the 3rd year of the 1450s decade. As of the start of 1452, the Gregorian calendar was 9 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1420s  1430s  1440s  – 1450s –  1460s  1470s  1480s
Years:	1449 1450 1451 – 1452 – 1453 1454 1455

1452 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1452 MCDLII
Ab urbe condita	2205
Armenian calendar	901 ԹՎ ՋԱ
Assyrian calendar	6202
Balinese saka calendar	1373–1374
Bengali calendar	859
Berber calendar	2402
English Regnal year	30 Hen. 6 – 31 Hen. 6
Buddhist calendar	1996
Burmese calendar	814
Byzantine calendar	6960–6961
Chinese calendar	辛未年 (Metal Goat) 4148 or 4088     — to — 壬申年 (Water Monkey) 4149 or 4089
Coptic calendar	1168–1169
Discordian calendar	2618
Ethiopian calendar	1444–1445
Hebrew calendar	5212–5213
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1508–1509
- Shaka Samvat	1373–1374
- Kali Yuga	4552–4553
Holocene calendar	11452
Igbo calendar	452–453
Iranian calendar	830–831
Islamic calendar	855–856
Japanese calendar	Hōtoku 4 / Kyōtoku 1 (享徳元年)
Javanese calendar	1367–1368
Julian calendar	1452 MCDLII
Korean calendar	3785
Minguo calendar	460 before ROC 民前460年
Nanakshahi calendar	−16
Thai solar calendar	1994–1995
Tibetan calendar	阴金羊年 (female Iron-Goat) 1578 or 1197 or 425     — to — 阳水猴年 (male Water-Monkey) 1579 or 1198 or 426

Events

• March – Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor becomes the last to be crowned in Rome.
• Portuguese navigator Diogo de Teive discovers Corvo Island in the Azores.
• 18 June – Pope Nicholas V issues the bull Dum Diversas, legitimising the colonial slave trade.
• October – English troops under John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, land in Guyenne, France, and retake most of the province without a fight.
• A major eruption of the South Pacific volcano Kuwae in Vanuatu has a subsequent global cooling effect (the eruption released more sulfate than any other event in the past 700 years).
• Battle of Bealach nam Broig, a Scottish clan battle.
• Murder of William Douglas, 8th Earl of Douglas by James II of Scotland at Stirling Castle.
• Revolt of Ghent: Forces of Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, clash multiple times with rebel militia from Ghent in the region around Ghent.

Births

• February 6 – Joana, Crown Princess of Portugal (d. 1490)
• March 10 – King Ferdinand II of Aragon (d. 1516)
• April 15 – Leonardo da Vinci, Italian artist and inventor (d. 1519)
• April 19 – King Frederick IV of Naples (d. 1504)
• July 10 – King James III of Scotland (d. 1488)
• July 27 – Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan (d. 1508)
• September 21 – Girolamo Savonarola, Italian religious reformer and ruler of Florence (d. 1498)
• October 2 – King Richard III of England (d. 1485)
• December 10 – Johannes Stöffler, German mathematician (d. 1531)

Deaths

• February 10
  • Svitrigaila, Grand Prince of Lithuania
  • Michał Bolesław Zygmuntowicz, Prince of Black Ruthenia
• May 26 – John Stafford, Archbishop of Canterbury
• December 12 – Guillaume Huin d'Estaing, Catholic cardinal
• date unknown
  • Nicholas Close, English bishop
  • Gemistus Pletho, philosopher
  • William Douglas, 8th Earl of Douglas