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Year 1451 (MCDLI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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January–December

  • February 3 – Murad II, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, dies and is succeeded by his son Mehmed II.
  • February 14 – Louis XI of France marries Charlotte of Savoy.
  • April 11 – Celje acquires market town status and town rights by orders from Count Frederic II of Celje.
  • April 19 – In the Delhi Sultanate, the Afghan Lodi dynasty succeeds the Turkish Sayyid dynasty.
  • June 30 – French troops under the Comte de Dunois invade Guyenne and capture Bordeaux.
  • August 20 – The French capture Bayonne, the last English stronghold in Guyenne.
  • October 28 – Revolt of Ghent: Ghent takes up arms against Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy.

    • Date unknown

  • The University of Glasgow is founded.
  • Nicholas of Cusa invents concave lens spectacles to treat myopia.

    • Births

  • January 14 – Franchinus Gaffurius, Italian composer (d. 1522)
  • January 29 – John, Prince of Portugal, Prince of Portugal (d. 1451)
  • February 17 – Raffaello Maffei, Italian theologian (d. 1522)
  • March 5 – William Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, English Earl (d. 1491)
  • April 22 – Queen Isabella I of Castile, Aragonese queen consort (d. 1504)
  • May 2 – René II, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1508)
  • May 17 – Engelbert II of Nassau, Count of Nassau-Vianden and Lord of Breda (1475–1504) (d. 1504)
  • June 1 – Giles Daubeney, 1st Baron Daubeney (d. 1508)
  • July 10 – James III of Scotland (d. 1488)
  • September 5 – Isabel Neville, Duchess of Clarence, elder daughter of Richard Neville (d. 1476)
  • November 29 – Elisabeth of Brandenburg, Duchess of Württemberg (d. 1524)
  • May 9 – Amerigo Vespucci, Italian explorer (d. 1512)
  • date unknown – Christopher Columbus, Italian explorer (d. 1506)

    • Deaths

  • February 3 – Murad II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1404)
  • June – ‘Abdullah, Timurid Empire ruler
  • July 11 – Barbara of Cilli, Slovenian noblewoman
  • November 7 – Count Amadeus VIII of Savoy (b. 1383)
  • date unknown
  • Stefan Lochner, painter (b. 1400)
  • John Lydgate, English monk and poet (b. 1370)
  • al-Mustakfi II, Abbasid Caliph

    • References

    1451 Wikipedia
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