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

Events of 1450

• February 7 - John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk, marries Lady Margaret Beaufort.
• 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.
• May 9 - 'Abd al-Latif Mirza (a Timurid monarch) is assassinated.
• 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.
• August 12 - Cherbourg, the last English territory in Normandy, surrenders to the French.

Undated

• The University of Barcelona is founded.
• Charles VIII of Sweden (who was also serving as Carl I of Norway) is declared deposed from the later throne in favor of Christian I of Denmark.
• Wolves enter Paris and kill 40 citizens.

• The Age of Discovery starts.
• Machu Picchu (Quechua: Machu Pikchu, "Old mountain") a pre-Columbian Inca site located 2,400 meters (7,875 ft) above sea level believed to be under construction.¹

Births

• May 18 - Piero Soderini, Florentine statesman (d. 1513)
• August 18 - Marko Marulic, Croatian poet (d. 1524)
• date unknown
  • William Catesby, English politician (d. 1485)
  • Bartolomeo Montagna, Italian painter (d. 1523)
  • Heinrich Isaak, German-Dutch composer (d. 1517)
  • Josquin des Pres, Dutch composer (d. 1521)
• probable
  • Hieronymus Bosch, Dutch painter (d. 1516)
  • Petrus Thaborita, Dutch historian and monk (d. 1527)
  • Gaspar Corte-Real, Portuguese explorer (d. 1501)
  • Heinrich Isaac, Franco-Flemish composer (d. 1517)
  • Hugh Oldham, Bishop of Exeter (d. 1519)
  • Pietro Antonio Solari, Italian architect (d. 1493)

Deaths

• February 9 - Agnès Sorel, mistress of Charles VII of France (b. 1421)
• May 2 - William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, English military leader (born 1396)
• May 9 - 'Abd al-Latif, ruler of Transoxonia
• May 18 - Sejong the Great of Joseon, ruler of Korea (b. 1397)
• June 10 - William Tresham, English politician
• July 18 - Francis I, Duke of Brittany (b. 1414)
• August 27 - Reginald West, 6th Baron De La Warr, English politician (b. 1395)
• September 16 - Louis Aleman, French cardinal
• date unknown
  • James Fiennes, 1st Baron Saye and Sele

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