Explore 102 historical events from 1450–1459.
Anne Neville was Queen of England from 26 June 1483 until her death in 1485 as the wife of King Richard III. She was the younger of the two daughters and co-heiresses of Richard Ne…
Anne Neville, Princess of Wales and Queen of England (died 1485)
Margaret of Denmark was Queen of Scots from 1469 to 1486 by marriage to King James III. She was the daughter of Christian I, King of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, and Dorothea of Bra…
Margaret of Denmark, Queen of Scotland (died 1486)
Ambroise de Loré was baron of Ivry in Normandy, a French military commander, and comrade-in-arms of Joan of Arc. A reforming commisar of trades and police and "Garde de la prévôté …
Ambroise de Loré, French commander (born 1396)
John Hunyadi was a leading Hungarian military and political figure during the 15th century, who served as regent of the Kingdom of Hungary from 1446 to 1453, under the minor Ladisl…
John Hunyadi, Hungarian general and politician (born 1387)
Vladislav II was a voivode of the principality of Wallachia, from 1447 to 1448, and again from 1448 to 1456. The way Vladislav II came to the throne is debatable. The most accepted…
Vladislav II of Wallachia
Nicolas Grenon was a French composer of the early Renaissance. He wrote in all the prevailing musical forms of the time, and was a rare case of a long-lived composer who learned hi…
Nicolas Grenon, French composer (born 1375)
John of Capistrano, OFM was an Italian Franciscan friar and Catholic priest from the town of Capestrano, Abruzzo. Famous as a preacher, theologian, and inquisitor, he earned himsel…
John of Capistrano, Italian priest and saint (born 1386)
Joan of Arc is a patron saint of France, honored as a defender of the French nation for her role in the siege of Orléans and her insistence on the coronation of Charles VII of Fran…
Joan of Arc was declared innocent of heresy in a retrial twenty-five years after her death.
The Gutenberg Bible, also known as the 42-line Bible, the Mazarin Bible or the B42, is the earliest major book printed in Europe using mass-produced metal movable type. It marked t…
The oldest known version of the Gutenberg Bible, the first major book produced on a printing press, was completed.
The Kingdom of Scotland was a sovereign state in northwest Europe, traditionally said to have been founded in 843. Its territories expanded and shrank, but it came to occupy the no…
Scottish Royal forces loyal to King James II defeat a rebel army of the Black Douglases in the battle of Arkinholm
The Wars of the Roses, known at the time and in following centuries as the Civil Wars, and also the Cousins' War, were a series of armed confrontations, machinations, battles and c…
Start of the Wars of the Roses: At the First Battle of St Albans, Richard, Duke of York, defeats and captures King Henry
Andrea Gritti was the Doge of the Venetian Republic from 1523 to 1538, following a distinguished diplomatic and military career. He started out as a successful merchant in Constant…
Andrea Gritti, Doge of Venice (died 1538)
Wolfgang I of Oettingen was a Count of Oettingen-Oettingen.
Wolfgang I of Oettingen, German count (died 1522)
Frederik of Baden was a German nobleman who served as Bishop of Utrecht from 1496 until his resignation in 1517.
Frederick IV of Baden, Dutch bishop (died 1517)
Deposed Queen Yun of the Haman Yun clan was the second wife of Yi Hyeol, King Seongjong and the mother of Yi Yung, Prince Yeonsan. She was Queen of Joseon from 1476 until her depos…
Queen Yun, Korean queen (died 1482)
John II was Elector of Brandenburg from 1486 until his death, the fourth of the House of Hohenzollern. After his death he received the cognomen Cicero, after the Roman orator of th…
John Cicero, Elector of Brandenburg (died 1499)
George of Bavaria referred to as the Rich, was the last duke of Bavaria-Landshut. He was a son of Louis IX the Rich and Amalia of Saxony.
George, duke of Bavaria (died 1503)
Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset, 4th Earl of Somerset, 1st Earl of Dorset, 1st Marquess of Dorset styled 1st Count of Mortain,, was an English nobleman and an important figur…
Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset, English commander (born 1406)
Thomas Clifford, 8th Baron de Clifford, also 8th Lord of Skipton, was the elder son of John, 7th Baron de Clifford, and Elizabeth Percy.
Thomas Clifford, 8th Baron de Clifford, Lancastrian commander (born 1414)
Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland was an English nobleman and military commander in the lead up to the Wars of the Roses. He was the son of Henry "Hotspur" Percy, and the gra…
Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland, English commander (born 1393)
The Thirteen Years' War, also called the War of the Cities, was a conflict fought in 1454–1466 between the Prussian Confederation, allied with the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland, a…
1454–1466 Thirteen Years' War: The Battle for Kneiphof ended with a decisive victory for the Teutonic Order.
The Thirteen Years' War, also called the War of the Cities, was a conflict fought in 1454–1466 between the Prussian Confederation, allied with the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland, a…
Thirteen Years' War: In the Battle of Chojnice, the Polish army is defeated by the Teutonic knights.
Bogislaw X of Pomerania, the Great, was Duke of Pomerania from 1474 until his death in 1523.
Bogislaw X, Duke of Pomerania (1474–1523) (died 1523)
Joanna of Aragon was Queen of Naples as the second wife of King Ferdinand I. She served as regent of Naples between the abdication and flight of her husband's son Alfonso II on 22 …
Joanna of Aragon, Queen of Naples (died 1517)