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

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Events of 1450

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1450

★ February 7 - John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk, marries Margaret Beaufort.

★ March - French troops under Guy de Richemont besiege the English commander in France, Edmund Beaufort, 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 (Timurid monarch) 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 - Surrender of Caen to the French.

★ August 12 - Surrender of Cherbourg, the last English territory in Normandy, to the French.

Undated

★ University of Barcelona 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.

Births

★ May 18 - Piero Soderini, Florentine statesman (died 1513)

★ August 18 - Marko Marulic, Croatian poet (died 1524)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ William Catesby, English politician (died 1485)

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★ Bartolomeo Montagna, Italian painter (died 1523)

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★ Heinrich Isaak, German-Dutch composer (died 1517)

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★ Josquin des Pres, Dutch composer (died 1521)

★ ''probable''

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★ Hieronymus Bosch, Dutch painter (died 1516)

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★ Gaspar Corte-Real, Portuguese explorer (died 1501)

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★ Heinrich Isaac, Franco-Flemish composer (died 1517)

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★ Hugh Oldham, Bishop of Exeter (died 1519)

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★ Pietro Antonio Solari, Italian architect (died 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 (born 1397)

★ June 10 - William Tresham, English politician

★ July 18 - Francis I, Duke of Brittany (born 1414)

★ August 27 - Reginald West, 6th Baron De La Warr, English politician (b. 1395)

★ September 16 - Louis Aleman, French cardinal

★ ''date unknown''

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★ James Fiennes, 1st Baron Saye and Sele