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Year 1449 (MCDXLIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Events

  • January 6 – Constantine XI Palaiologos is crowned Byzantine Emperor at Mistra. He will be the last in a line of rulers that can be traced to the founding of Rome.
  • April 7 – The last Antipope, Felix V, abdicates.
  • April 19 – Pope Nicholas V is elected by the Council of Basel.
  • April 25 – The Council of Basel dissolves itself.
  • May 14 – Second Siege of Sfetigrad (1449): Garrison surrenders and Ottomans seize the fortress.
  • May 20 – Tensions between King Afonso V of Portugal and Peter, Duke of Coimbra erupt at the Battle of Alfarrobeira. Defeat of the Duke's forces.
  • August 13 – First Margrave War: Albrecht III Achilles, Elector of Brandenburg takes Lichtenau Fortress from Nuremberg.
  • September 3 – Battle of Tumu Fortress: The Oirat Mongols defeat the Ming dynasty army and capture the Zhengtong Emperor of China; the latter is officially deposed while his brother ascends as the Jingtai Emperor the next year.
  • October 29 – The French recapture Rouen from the English.

    • Births

  • January 1 – Lorenzo de' Medici, Italian statesman (d. 1492)
  • January 17 – Osanna of Mantua, Italian Dominican tertiary (d. 1505)
  • February 7 – Adriana of Nassau-Dillenburg, Consort of Count Philip I of Hanau-Münzenberg (d. 1477)
  • April 27 – Asakura Ujikage, 8th head of the Asakura clan (d. 1486)
  • August 10 – Bona of Savoy, Duchess of Savoy (d. 1503)
  • September 20 – Philipp I, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg, German noble (d. 1500)
  • October 21 – George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence, brother of Edward IV of England and Richard III of England (d. 1478)
  • November 11 – Catherine of Poděbrady, Hungarian Queen (d. 1464)
  • November 14 – Sidonie of Poděbrady, Daughter of King of Bohemia (d. 1510)
  • December 6 – Dorotea Gonzaga, Italian noble (d. 1467)
  • date unknown
  • Aldus Manutius, Italian printer
  • Archibald Douglas, 5th Earl of Angus (d. 1513)
  • Domenico Gagini, sculptor (d. 1492)
  • Domenico Ghirlandaio, Italian artist (d. 1494)
  • Magnus Hundt, German physician and theologian (d. 1519)
  • Margaret of Thuringia, wife of the Elector of Brandenburg (d. 1501)
  • probable
  • Ilham Ghali khan of Kazan Khanate, (d. 1490)
  • Srimanta Sankardeva, Assamese scholar and religious figure (d. c. 1568)
  • Mandukhai Khatun, Mongolian queen

    • Deaths

  • January 4 – Cecilia of Brandenburg, Duchess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (b. c.1405)
  • January 21 – Giovanni Berardi, Archbishop of Taranto (b. 1380)
  • March – Dolce dell'Anguillara, condottiero (b. 1401)
  • May – Alexander of Islay, Earl of Ross, Lord of the Isles
  • May 20 (at the Battle of Alfarrobeira)
  • Álvaro Vaz de Almada, 1st Count of Avranches
  • Infante Pedro, Duke of Coimbra (b. 1392)
  • August 13 – Louis IV, Elector Palatine (b. 1424)
  • October 27 – Ulugh Beg, Timurid ruler and astronomer (b. 1394)
  • December 24 – Walter Bower, Scottish chronicler (b. 1385)

    • References

    1449 Wikipedia
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