1451

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century 15th century 16th century
Decades:	1430s 1440s 1450s 1460s 1470s
Years:	1448 1449 1450 1451 1452 1453 1454

1451 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1451 MCDLI
Ab urbe condita	2204
Armenian calendar	900 ԹՎ Ջ
Assyrian calendar	6201
Balinese saka calendar	1372–1373
Bengali calendar	858
Berber calendar	2401
English Regnal year	29 Hen. 6 – 30 Hen. 6
Buddhist calendar	1995
Burmese calendar	813
Byzantine calendar	6959–6960
Chinese calendar	庚午年 (Metal Horse) 4148 or 3941     — to — 辛未年 (Metal Goat) 4149 or 3942
Coptic calendar	1167–1168
Discordian calendar	2617
Ethiopian calendar	1443–1444
Hebrew calendar	5211–5212
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1507–1508
- Shaka Samvat	1372–1373
- Kali Yuga	4551–4552
Holocene calendar	11451
Igbo calendar	451–452
Iranian calendar	829–830
Islamic calendar	854–855
Japanese calendar	Hōtoku 3 (宝徳３年)
Javanese calendar	1366–1367
Julian calendar	1451 MCDLI
Korean calendar	3784
Minguo calendar	461 before ROC 民前461年
Nanakshahi calendar	−17
Thai solar calendar	1993–1994
Tibetan calendar	阳金马年 (male Iron-Horse) 1577 or 1196 or 424     — to — 阴金羊年 (female Iron-Goat) 1578 or 1197 or 425

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

Events

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)
• date unknown – Christopher Columbus, Italian explorer (d. 1506)
• May 09 – Amerigo Vespucci, Italian explorer (d. 1512)

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