1452

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1452 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1452 MCDLII
Ab urbe condita	2205
Armenian calendar	901 ԹՎ ՋԱ
Assyrian calendar	6202
Balinese saka calendar	1373–1374
Bengali calendar	858–859
Berber calendar	2402
English Regnal year	30 Hen. 6 – 31 Hen. 6
Buddhist calendar	1996
Burmese calendar	814
Byzantine calendar	6960–6961
Chinese calendar	辛未年 (Metal Goat) 4149 or 3942     — to — 壬申年 (Water Monkey) 4150 or 3943
Coptic calendar	1168–1169
Discordian calendar	2618
Ethiopian calendar	1444–1445
Hebrew calendar	5212–5213
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1508–1509
- Shaka Samvat	1373–1374
- Kali Yuga	4552–4553
Holocene calendar	11452
Igbo calendar	452–453
Iranian calendar	830–831
Islamic calendar	855–856
Japanese calendar	Hōtoku 4 / Kyōtoku 1 (享徳元年)
Javanese calendar	1367–1368
Julian calendar	1452 MCDLII
Korean calendar	3785
Minguo calendar	460 before ROC 民前460年
Nanakshahi calendar	−16
Thai solar calendar	1994–1995
Tibetan calendar	阴金羊年 (female Iron-Goat) 1578 or 1197 or 425     — to — 阳水猴年 (male Water-Monkey) 1579 or 1198 or 426

Year 1452 (MCDLII) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

• February – Alexăndrel retakes the throne of Moldavia, in his long struggle with Petru Aron.
• February 22 – William Douglas, 8th Earl of Douglas is killed by James II of Scotland, at Stirling Castle.
• March 17 – Reconquista – Battle of Los Alporchones (around the city of Lorca in Murcia): The combined forces of the Kingdom of Castile, and its subsidiary kingdom of Murcia, defeat the Emirate of Granada.[1]
• March 19 – Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor, becomes the last to be crowned in Rome.[2]
• May 31 – Revolt of Ghent: Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, officially declares war on Ghent.
• June 18 – 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.
  • Byzantine–Ottoman Wars: The Ottoman governor of Thessaly, Turakhan Beg, breaks through the Hexamilion wall for the fourth time, and ravages the Peloponnese Peninsula to prevent the Byzantine Despotate of the Morea from assisting Constantinople, during the final Ottoman siege of the imperial capital.[3]

Date unknown

• A major volcanic eruption, 1452/1453 mystery eruption, has a subsequent global cooling effect (the eruption releases more sulfate than any other event in the previous 700 years).
• Portuguese navigator Diogo de Teive discovers the islands of Corvo and Flores, in the Azores.
• Battle of Bealach nam Broig, a Scottish clan battle.
• Edinburgh officially becomes the capital of the Kingdom of Scotland.[4]

Births

Joanna, Princess of Portugal

• February 6 – Joanna, Princess of Portugal (d. 1490)
• February 14
  • Davide Ghirlandaio, Italian painter and mosaicist (d. 1525)[5]
  • Pandolfo Petrucci, tyrant of Siena (d. 1512)
• March 10 – King Ferdinand II of Aragon, Aragonese king and first king of a united Spain (by marriage to Isabella of Castile) (d. 1516)[6]
• April 15 – Leonardo da Vinci, Italian artist and inventor (d. 1519)[7]
• April 19 – King Frederick of Naples (d. 1504)[8]
• May 18 – Henry the Younger of Poděbrady, Bohemian nobleman (d. 1492)
• July 27
  • Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan (d. 1508)[9]
  • Lucrezia Crivelli, mistress of Ludovico Sforza (d. 1534) (approximate date)
• August 12 – Abraham Zacuto, Spanish Jewish astronomer, astrologer, mathematician, rabbi and historian (d. 1515)
• September 21 – Girolamo Savonarola, Italian religious reformer (d. 1498)[10]
• October 2 – King Richard III of England (d. 1485)[11]
• December 6 – Antonio Mancinelli, Italian humanist pedagogue and grammarian (d. 1505)
• December 10 – Johannes Stöffler, German mathematician (d. 1531)
• Date unknown
  • Diogo Cão, Portuguese explorer (d. 1486)
  • Hugh Oldham, English bishop and patron of education (d. 1519)

Deaths

Švitrigaila and Michał Bolesław Zygmuntowicz (Michael Žygimantaitis) died on February 10, 1452

Konrad VII the White

Reinhard III, Count of Hanau

• February 10
  • Švitrigaila, Grand Prince of Lithuania
  • Michał Bolesław Zygmuntowicz (Michael Žygimantaitis), Prince of Black Ruthenia
• February 14 – Konrad VII the White, Duke of Oleśnica
• February 22 – William Douglas, 8th Earl of Douglas (b. 1425)
• April 20 – Reinhard III, Count of Hanau (1451–1452) (b. 1412)
• May – John Stafford, Archbishop of Canterbury[12]
• October – Nicholas Close, English bishop
• probable – Gemistus Pletho, Greek philosopher

References

1. Thomas Devaney (April 3, 2015). Enemies in the Plaza: Urban Spectacle and the End of Spanish Frontier Culture, 1460-1492. University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 158. ISBN 978-0-8122-9134-6.
2. "Historical Events in 1452". OnThisDay.com. Retrieved August 8, 2017.
3. Setton, Kenneth M. (1978). The Papacy and the Levant (1204–1571), volume II: The Fifteenth Century. DIANE Publishing. p. 146. ISBN 0-87169-127-2.
4. "Why is Edinburgh the capital of Scotland?". Edinburgh Tourist. June 20, 2018. Retrieved July 25, 2021.
5. Ira Moskowitz (1976). Great Drawings of All Time: Italian, thirteenth through nineteenth century. Kodansha International. p. 139. ISBN 978-0-87011-263-8.
6. "Ferdinand II | Biography & Facts". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved June 30, 2020.
7. "Leonardo da Vinci | Biography, Art, & Facts". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved May 3, 2019.
8. Richard J. Walsh (2005). Charles the Bold and Italy (1467-1477): Politics and Personnel. Liverpool University Press. p. 302. ISBN 978-0-85323-838-6.
9. Grolier Incorporated (1997). Academic American encyclopedia. Grolier. p. 233. ISBN 9780717220687.
10. Sandro Botticelli; Musée national du Luxembourg (France); Palazzo Strozzi (Florence, Italie). (2003). Botticelli: From Lorenzo the Magnificent to Savonarola. Skira. p. 227. ISBN 978-88-8491-565-8.
11. "Richard III | Biography & Facts". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved June 26, 2020.
12. Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology (Third revised ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 233. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.