1450

Year 1450 (MCDL) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. February 7 – John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk, marries Lady Margaret Beaufort. February 26 – Francesco Sforza enters Milan after a siege, becoming Duke of the city-state, and founding a dynasty that will rule Milan for a century. 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 of England. May 9 – Abdal-Latif Mirza, a Timurid dynasty monarch, is assassinated. May 13 – Charles VIII of Sweden, also serving as Carl I of Norway, is declared deposed from the latter throne, in favor of Christian I of Denmark. June 18 – Battle of Solefields (Sevenoaks): Jack Cade's rebels are driven from London by loyal troops. July 6 – Caen surrenders to the French. July 12 – Jack Cade is slain in a skirmish. August 12 – Cherbourg, the last English territory in Normandy, surrenders to the French. October 5 – Jews are expelled from Lower Bavaria, by order of Duke Ludwig IX. November 3 – The University of Barcelona is founded. November 23 – First Siege of Krujë: Albanian troops are victorious, forcing an Ottoman army of approximately 100,000 men to retreat from Albania. Machu Picchu (Quechua: Machu Pikchu, "Old mountain"), a pre-Columbian Inca site located 2,400 meters (7,875 ft) above sea level, is believed to be under construction. A religious sacrifice of over a hundred children is performed around this time, outside of the ancient city of Chan Chan (near modern Trujillo), on the north coast of Peru. Johannes Gutenberg has set up his movable type printing press, as a commercial operation in Mainz, by this date. February 12 – Yejong of Joseon, Joseon King (d.