1452

Year '1452' was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Events of 1452

Births

Deaths

Events of 1452

★ October - English troops under John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, land in Guyenne, France, and retake most of the province without a fight.

★ Major eruption of the South Pacific volcano Kuwae in Vanuatu. The eruption released more sulphate than any other event in the past 700 years.

★ The portuguese navigators Diogo de Teive and his son João de Teive discovered the islands of Flores and Corvo (Azores)

★ Leonardo da Vinci is born

Births

★ February 6 - Joana, Crown Princess of Portugal (died 1490)

★ March 10 - King Ferdinand II of Aragon (died 1516)

★ April 15 - Leonardo da Vinci, Italian artist and inventor (died 1519)

★ April 19 - King Frederick IV of Naples (died 1504)

★ July 10 - King James III of Scotland (died 1488)

★ July 27 - Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan (died 1508)

★ September 21 - Girolamo Savonarola, Italian religious reformer and ruler of Florence (died 1498)

★ October 2 - King Richard III of England (died 1485)

★ December 10 - Johannes Stöffler, German mathematician (died 1531)

Deaths

★ February 10

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★ Svitrigaila, Grand Prince of Lithuania

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★ Michał Bolesław Zygmuntowicz, Prince of Black Ruthenia

★ May 26 - John Stafford, Archbishop of Canterbury

★ December 12 - Guillaume Huin d'Estaing, Catholic cardinal

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Nicholas Close, English bishop

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★ Gemistus Pletho, philosopher