1451
# 1451

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

## Events

### January–December

* January 7 – Pope Nicholas V issues a Papal Bull to establish The University of Glasgow; classes are initially held in Glasgow Cathedral.
* February 3 – Murad II, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, dies and is succeeded (on February 18) 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 Jean de Dunois invade Guyenne, and capture Bordeaux.
* August 20 – The French capture Bayonne, the last English stronghold in Guyenne.
* October – After assassinating Bogdan II of Moldavia, Petru Aron takes up the throne.
* October 28 – Revolt of Ghent: Ghent takes up arms against Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy.

### Date unknown

* The Great Peacemaker along with Jigonhsasee and Hiawatha, found the Haudenosaunee, commonly called the Iroquois Confederacy

## 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)
* March 9 – Amerigo Vespucci, Italian explorer (d. 1512)
* April 22 – Queen Isabella I of Castile, Castillian queen regnant and first queen of a united Spain (by marriage to Ferdinand of Aragon) (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)
   * Ignatius Noah of Lebanon, Syriac Orthodox patriarch of Antioch (d. 1509).

## Deaths

* January 7 – Antipope Felix V (b. 1383)
* January 18 – Henry II, Count of Nassau-Siegen, Co-ruler of Nassau-Siegen (1442–1451) (b. 1414)
* February 3 – Murad II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1404)
* June – ‘Abdullah, Timurid Empire ruler
* July 11 – Barbara of Cilli, Holy Roman Empress, queen consort of Hungary and Bohemia (b. 1392)
* October – Bogdan II of Moldavia, assassinated by Petru Aron
* date unknown
   * Stefan Lochner, German painter (b. 1400)
   * John Lydgate, English monk and poet (b. 1370)
   * al-Mustakfi II, Abbasid Caliph
