1449

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

Events

January–December

• 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.
• February – Alexăndrel seizes the throne of Moldavia, with the support of the boyars.
• March 24 – Hundred Years' War: English capture Fougères in Brittany.^[1]
• 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 – An English privateering fleet led by Robert Wennington challenges ships of the Hanseatic League.^[2]
• May 14 – Second Siege of Sfetigrad (1449): The Albanian garrison surrenders and the Ottomans seize the fortress.
• May 20 – Battle of Alfarrobeira: King Afonso V of Portugal defeats the forces of Peter, Duke of Coimbra.
• July – Hundred Years' War: French invade Normandy.^[1]
• August 13 – First Margrave War: Albrecht III Achilles, Elector of Brandenburg takes Lichtenau Fortress from Nuremberg.
• September 1 – 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 – Bogdan II of Moldavia enters the country with troops from John Hunyadi, and takes on the throne after Alexăndrel flees.
• October 29 – The French recapture Rouen from the English.^[1]

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 of Japan (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, Bohemian princess, duchess consort of Saxony (d. 1510)
• December 6 – Dorotea Gonzaga, Italian noble (d. 1467)
• date unknown
  • Aldus Manutius, Italian printer
  • Archibald Douglas, 5th Earl of Angus (d. 1513)
  • Axayacatl, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan (d. 1481)^[3]
  • Domenico Gagini, Italian sculptor (d. 1492)
  • Domenico Ghirlandaio, Italian artist (d. 1494)
  • Magnus Hundt, German physician and theologian (d. 1519)
  • Margaret of Thuringia, Electress consort 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)
• February 2 – Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, Islamic scholar (b. 1372)
• March – Dolce dell'Anguillara, Italian 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
  • Peter, Duke of Coimbra (b. 1392)
• August 13 – Louis IV, Elector Palatine (b. 1424)
• October 27 – Ulugh Beg, Timurid ruler and astronomer (b. 1394)
• October 31 – Elisabeth of Brandenburg, Duchess of Brzeg-Legnica and Cieszyn, German princess (b. 1403)
• November 19 – Kunigunde of Sternberg, first spouse of the King George of Podebrady (b. 1425)
• December 24 – Walter Bower, Scottish chronicler (b. 1385)

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