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Year '1455' was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Events of 1455

Births

Deaths

Events of 1455

★ January 8 - Pope Nicholas V publishes ''Romanus Pontifex'', an encyclical addressed to King Afonso V of Portugal, which sanctions the conquest of non-Christian lands, and the reduction of native non-Christian populations to 'perpetual slavery'.

★ February 23 - The Gutenberg Bible is the first book printed with movable type.

★ April 8 - Pope Calixtus III succeeds Pope Nicholas V as the 209th pope.

★ The Wars of the Roses begin.

★ May 18 - Battle of Arkinholm in Scotland.

★ May 22 - First Battle of St Albans: Richard, Duke of York, defeats and captures King Henry VI of England.

Births

★ February 2 - King John of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden (died 1513)

★ March 3 - King John II of Portugal (died 1495)

★ March 15 - Pietro Accolti, Italian Catholic cardinal (died 1532)

★ August 2 - John Cicero, Elector of Brandenburg (died 1499)

★ Peter Vischer the Elder, German sculptor (died 1529) (approximate date)

Deaths

★ February 18 - Fra Angelico, Italian painter (born 1395)

★ March 24 - Pope Nicholas V (born 1397)

★ April 1 - Zbigniew Cardinal Oleśnicki, Polish bishop and statesman (born 1389)

★ May 18 - Archibald Douglas, Earl of Moray (killed in battle)

★ May 22 - Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland, English politician (killed in battle)

★ May 22 - Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset, English commander (killed in battle) (born 1406)

★ May 22 - Humphrey Stafford, Earl of Stafford (in battle)

★ September 3 - Alonso Tostado, Spanish Catholic bishop

★ October 22 - Johannes Brassart, Flemish composer

★ December 1 - Lorenzo Ghiberti, Italian sculptor and metal smith (born 1378)

★ December 2 - Isabel of Coimbra, queen of Portugal (born 1432)