Year 1450 (MCDL) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar. February 7 – John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk, marries Lady Margaret Beaufort. [1] February 26 – Francesco Sforza enters Milan after a siege, becoming Duke of the city-state, and founding a dynasty that will rule Milan for a century.

1498 AD Vasco De Gama lands in India -Following up on the discovery by Dias of the Cape of Good Hope, Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama sets sail for India. In 1498, da Gama reached India.

After the fall of the Roman Empire the Nobles of Europe came to power with the help of the Roman Catholic Popes. This should last for a thousand years (until about 1,450 AD) then the power of the cities and reformers became stronger and stronger.

1450 (MCDL) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1450th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 450th year of the 2nd millennium, the 50th year of the 15th century, and the 1st year of the 1450s decade.

What happened and who was notable in 1450? Browse important events, world leaders, notable birthdays, and tragic deaths from the year 1450.

Holy Roman Emperors struggle with increasing difficulty to control their territorial holdings—the boundaries of which continue to expand until the late sixteenth century—in the face of opposition from local princes and foreign threats, especially France and the Ottoman Turks.

On February 18, 1478 George Duke of Clarence enemy of his brother King Edward the lV was drowned by force in a wine barrel. In the year 1492, Columbus sails across the Atlantic Ocean and discovers America. Pope Leo X issued a Papal …

AD1450 marks a significant turning point in world history, occurring just before the Age of Exploration and the subsequent European colonization of the Americas.

This information was collected as part of a lifelong project to create a historical timeline by E. McNally. The rest of the timeline can be found here: https://archive.org/details/emcnallychronology. Unordered events occurring during the year of …

The 1450-1750 Period marks a significant era in world history characterized by transformative changes in political, economic, and cultural structures. This timeframe saw the rise of powerful empires, the onset of European exploration, and the exchange of ideas and goods that spurred global interconnectedness.