1451

align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1448 1449 1450 - 1451 - 1452 1453 1454

align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1420s 1430s 1440s - 1450s - 1460s 1470s 1480s

align="center" | Centuries:
14th century - 15th century - 16th century

Events

February 3 - Murad II, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire dies and is succeeded by his son Mehmed II.
April 11 - Celje acquires market-town status and town rights by orders from the Celje count Frederic II.
June 30 - French troops under the Comte de Dunois invade Guyenne and capture Bordeaux
August 20 - The French capture Bayonne, the last English stronghold in Guyenne
Foundation of the University of Glasgow
Nicholas of Cusa invents concave lens spectacles to treat myopia
Roger van der Weyden paints his Last Judgement

Births

April 22 - Princess Isabella of Castile, later Queen of Castile.
October 30 (or another late-summer/early-fall date) - Christopher Columbus as "Cristoforo Colombo," in the independent Italian republic of Genoa. Another possible date is the Feast Day of St. Christopher, July 25
John Cabot (probable date)
Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset
Franchinus Gaffurius, Italian music theorist and composer

Deaths

Marriages

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