1452
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| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 14th century – 15th century – 16th century |
| Decades: | 1420s 1430s 1440s – 1450s – 1460s 1470s 1480s |
| Years: | 1449 1450 1451 – 1452 – 1453 1454 1455 |
| 1452 in topic: |
| Subjects: Archaeology – Architecture – |
| Art – Literature – Music – Science |
| Leaders: State leaders – Colonial governors |
| Category: Establishments – Disestablishments |
| Births – Deaths – Works |
| Gregorian calendar | 1452 MCDLII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2205 |
| Armenian calendar | 901 ԹՎ ՋԱ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -392 – -391 |
| Bengali calendar | 859 |
| Berber calendar | 2402 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1996 |
| Burmese calendar | 814 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6960 – 6961 |
| Chinese calendar | 辛未年十二月初十日 (4088/4148-12-10) — to —
壬申年十一月廿一日(4089/4149-11-21) |
| Coptic calendar | 1168 – 1169 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1444 – 1445 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5212 – 5213 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1507 – 1508 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1374 – 1375 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4553 – 4554 |
| Holocene calendar | 11452 |
| Iranian calendar | 830 – 831 |
| Islamic calendar | 855 – 856 |
| Japanese calendar | Hōtoku 4Kyōtoku 1 (享徳元年) |
| Korean calendar | 3785 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1995 |
Year 1452 (MCDLII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
[edit] Events of 1452
- March – Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor becomes the last to be crowned in Rome.
- Portuguese navigator Diogo de Teive discovers Corvo Island in the Azores.
- 18 June – Pope Nicholas V issues the bull Dum Diversas, legitimising the colonial slave trade.
- October – English troops under John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, land in Guyenne, France, and retake most of the province without a fight.
- A major eruption of the South Pacific volcano Kuwae in Vanuatu has a subsequent global cooling effect (the eruption released more sulfate than any other event in the past 700 years).
- Battle of Bealach nam Broig, a Scottish clan battle.
- Murder of William Douglas, 8th Earl of Douglas by James II of Scotland at Stirling Castle.
[edit] Births
- February 6 – Joana, Crown Princess of Portugal (d. 1490)
- March 10 – King Ferdinand II of Aragon (d. 1516)
- April 15 – Leonardo da Vinci, Italian artist and inventor (d. 1519)
- April 19 – King Frederick IV of Naples (d. 1504)
- July 10 – King James III of Scotland (d. 1488)
- July 27 – Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan (d. 1508)
- September 21 – Girolamo Savonarola, Italian religious reformer and ruler of Florence (d. 1498)
- October 2 – King Richard III of England (d. 1485)
- December 10 – Johannes Stöffler, German mathematician (d. 1531)
[edit] Deaths
- February 10
- Svitrigaila, Grand Prince of Lithuania
- Michał Bolesław Zygmuntowicz, Prince of Black Ruthenia
- May 26 – John Stafford, Archbishop of Canterbury
- December 12 – Guillaume Huin d'Estaing, Catholic cardinal
- date unknown
- Nicholas Close, English bishop
- Gemistus Pletho, philosopher
- William Douglas, 8th Earl of Douglas
