Explore 102 historical events from 1450–1459.
Agnolo Ambrogini, commonly known as Angelo Poliziano or simply Poliziano, anglicized as Politian, was an Italian classical scholar and poet of the Florentine Renaissance. His schol…
Poliziano, Italian poet and scholar (died 1494)
Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, was an English nobleman known as the namesake of Buckingham's rebellion, a failed but significant collection of uprisings in England and par…
Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English politician, Lord High Constable of England (died 1483)
John II of Castile was King of Castile and León from 1406 to 1454. He succeeded his older sister, Maria of Castile, Queen of Aragon, as Prince of Asturias in 1405.
John II, king of Castile and León (born 1405)
Mary Stewart, Countess of Arran was the elder daughter of King James II of Scotland and Mary of Guelders. King James III of Scotland was her eldest brother. She married twice: firs…
Mary Stewart, Countess of Arran, Scottish princess (died 1488)
Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba was a Spanish general and statesman. He led military campaigns during the Conquest of Granada and the Italian Wars, after which he served as Viceroy of…
Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, Spanish general (died 1515)
Edward of Westminster, also known as Edward of Lancaster, was the only child of Henry VI of England and Margaret of Anjou. He was killed aged seventeen at the Battle of Tewkesbury.
Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales, son and heir of Henry VI of England (died 1471)
Giuliano de' Medici was the second son of Piero de' Medici and Lucrezia Tornabuoni. As co-ruler of the Florentine Republic, with his brother Lorenzo the Magnificent, he complemente…
Giuliano de' Medici (died 1478)
The Fall of Constantinople, also known as the Conquest of Constantinople, was the capture of Constantinople, the capital city of the Byzantine Empire, by the Ottoman Empire. The ci…
Fall of Constantinople: Ottoman armies under Sultan Mehmed II capture Constantinople after a 53-day siege, ending the Ro
The Battle of Castillon was a battle between the forces of England and France which took place on 17 July 1453 in Gascony near the town of Castillon-sur-Dordogne. On the day of th…
Battle of Castillon: The last battle of the Hundred Years' War, the French under Jean Bureau defeat the English under…
The Hundred Years' War was a series of conflicts between the kingdoms of England and France and a civil war in France during the late Middle Ages. It emerged from feudal disputes o…
Hundred Years' War: Three months after the Battle of Castillon, England loses its last possessions in southern France.
Ladislaus the Posthumous, known as Ladislaus V, was Duke of Austria and King of Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia. He was the posthumous son of Albert II of Germany with Elizabeth of Lu…
Ladislaus the Posthumous is crowned king of Bohemia in Prague.
Ulubatlı Hasan, also known as Baba Hasan Ağa the Standard Bearer or Baba Hasan-ı ‘Alemî, was the sekbanbaşı who erected the first standard on the Byzantine walls during the Conques…
Ulubatlı Hasan, Ottoman commander (born 1428)
Constantine XI Dragases Palaiologos or Dragaš Palaeologus was the last reigning Byzantine emperor from 23 January 1449 until his death in battle at the fall of Constantinople on 29…
Constantine XI Palaiologos, Byzantine emperor (born 1404)
Álvaro de Luna y Fernández de Jarava, was a Castilian statesman, favourite of John II of Castile. He served as Constable of Castile and as Grand Master of the Order of Santiago. He…
Álvaro de Luna, Duke of Trujillo, Constable of Castile
Loukas Notaras was a Byzantine Greek statesman who served as the last megas doux or grand duke and the last mesazon of the Byzantine Empire, under emperors John VIII Palaiologos an…
Loukas Notaras, last megas doux of the Byzantine Empire
Andronikos Palaiologos Kantakouzenos was the last Grand Domestic of the Byzantine Empire. Present in the city at the Fall of Constantinople in 1453, he was one of the group of high…
Andronikos Palaiologos Kantakouzenos, Byzantine commander
Dmitriy Yurievich Shemyaka was the second son of Yury of Zvenigorod by Anastasia of Smolensk and grandson of Dmitri Donskoi. His hereditary patrimony was the rich northern town Gal…
Dmitry Shemyaka, Grand Prince of Moscow
John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, 1st Earl of Waterford, 7th Baron Talbot, KG, known as "Old Talbot" and "Terror of the French" was an English nobleman and a noted military comm…
John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, English commander and politician (born 1387)
Enguerrand de Monstrelet was a French chronicler. He was born in Picardy, most likely into a family of the minor nobility.
Enguerrand de Monstrelet, French historian and author (born 1400)
The Fall of Constantinople, also known as the Conquest of Constantinople, was the capture of Constantinople, the capital city of the Byzantine Empire, by the Ottoman Empire. The ci…
With the fall of Constantinople, the Byzantine Empire fell to the Ottomans
The Battle of Castillon was a battle between the forces of England and France which took place on 17 July 1453 in Gascony near the town of Castillon-sur-Dordogne. On the day of th…
The Battle of Castillon, the last engagement of the Hundred Years' War, ended with the English losing all holdings in…
Ladislaus the Posthumous, known as Ladislaus V, was Duke of Austria and King of Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia. He was the posthumous son of Albert II of Germany with Elizabeth of Lu…
Ladislaus the Posthumous was crowned King of Bohemia, although George of Poděbrady remained in control of the…
Frederick, sometimes called Frederick IV or Frederick of Aragon, was the last King of Naples from the Neapolitan branch of the House of Trastámara, ruling from 1496 to 1501. He was…
Frederick IV, King of Naples (died 1504)
Ludovico Maria Sforza, also known as Ludovico il Moro, and called the "arbiter of Italy" by historian Francesco Guicciardini, was an Italian nobleman who ruled as the Duke of Milan…
Ludovico Sforza, Italian son of Francesco I Sforza (died 1508)