1449

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century 15th century 16th century
Decades:	1420s 1430s 1440s 1450s 1460s
Years:	1446 1447 1448 1449 1450 1451 1452

1449 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1449 MCDXLIX
Ab urbe condita	2202
Armenian calendar	898 ԹՎ ՊՂԸ
Assyrian calendar	6199
Balinese saka calendar	1370–1371
Bengali calendar	856
Berber calendar	2399
English Regnal year	27 Hen. 6 – 28 Hen. 6
Buddhist calendar	1993
Burmese calendar	811
Byzantine calendar	6957–6958
Chinese calendar	戊辰年 (Earth Dragon) 4146 or 3939     — to — 己巳年 (Earth Snake) 4147 or 3940
Coptic calendar	1165–1166
Discordian calendar	2615
Ethiopian calendar	1441–1442
Hebrew calendar	5209–5210
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1505–1506
- Shaka Samvat	1370–1371
- Kali Yuga	4549–4550
Holocene calendar	11449
Igbo calendar	449–450
Iranian calendar	827–828
Islamic calendar	852–853
Japanese calendar	Bun'an 6 / Hōtoku 1 (宝徳元年)
Javanese calendar	1364–1365
Julian calendar	1449 MCDXLIX
Korean calendar	3782
Minguo calendar	463 before ROC 民前463年
Nanakshahi calendar	−19
Thai solar calendar	1991–1992
Tibetan calendar	阳土龙年 (male Earth-Dragon) 1575 or 1194 or 422     — to — 阴土蛇年 (female Earth-Snake) 1576 or 1195 or 423

Year 1449 (MCDXLIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

• January 6 – Constantine XI Palaiologos is crowned Byzantine Emperor at Mistra; he will be the last in a line of rulers that can be traced to the founding of Rome.
• February – Alexăndrel seizes the throne of Moldavia, with the support of the boyars.
• March 24 – Hundred Years' War: English forces capture Fougères in Brittany.^[1]
• April 7 – The last Antipope, Felix V, abdicates.
• April 19 – Pope Nicholas V is elected by the Council of Basel.^[2]
• April 25 – The Council of Basel dissolves itself.
• May – An English privateering fleet led by Robert Wennington challenges ships of the Hanseatic League.^[3]
• May 14 – Second Siege of Sfetigrad (1449): The Albanian garrison surrenders and the Ottomans seize the fortress.
• May 20 – Battle of Alfarrobeira: King Afonso V of Portugal defeats the forces of Peter, Duke of Coimbra.
• July – Hundred Years' War: The French invade Normandy.^[1]
• August 13 – First Margrave War: Margrave Albrecht takes Lichtenau Fortress from Nuremberg.
• September 1 – Battle of Tumu Fortress: The Oirat Mongols defeat the Ming dynasty army, and capture the Zhengtong Emperor of China; the latter is officially deposed, while his brother ascends as the Jingtai Emperor the next year.
• October – Bogdan II of Moldavia enters the country with troops from John Hunyadi, and takes the throne after Alexăndrel flees.
• October 29 – The French recapture Rouen from the English.^[1]

Births

• January 1 – Lorenzo de' Medici, Italian statesman (d. 1492)^[4]
• January 17 – Osanna of Mantua, Italian Dominican tertiary (d. 1505)
• February 7 – Adriana of Nassau-Siegen, consort of Count Philip I of Hanau-Münzenberg (d. 1477)
• April 27 – Asakura Ujikage, 8th head of the Asakura clan of Japan (d. 1486)
• August 10 – Bona of Savoy, Duchess of Savoy (d. 1503)
• September 20 – Philipp I, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg, German noble (d. 1500)
• October 21 – George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence, brother of Edward IV of England and Richard III of England (d. 1478)
• November 11 – Catherine of Poděbrady, Hungarian Queen (d. 1464)
• November 14 – Sidonie of Poděbrady, Bohemian princess, duchess consort of Saxony (d. 1510)
• December 6 – Dorotea Gonzaga, Italian noble (d. 1467)
• date unknown
  • Aldus Manutius, Italian printer
  • Archibald Douglas, 5th Earl of Angus (d. 1513)
  • Axayacatl, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan (d. 1481)^[5]
  • Domenico Gagini, Italian sculptor (d. 1492)
  • Domenico Ghirlandaio, Italian artist (d. 1494)
  • Magnus Hundt, German physician and theologian (d. 1519)
  • Margaret of Thuringia, Electress consort of Brandenburg (d. 1501)
• probable
  • Ilham Ghali khan of Kazan Khanate, (d. 1490)
  • Srimanta Sankardeva, Assamese scholar and religious figure (d. c. 1568)
  • Mandukhai Khatun, Mongolian queen

Deaths

• January 4 – Cecilia of Brandenburg, Duchess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (b. c.1405)
• January 21 – Giovanni Berardi, Archbishop of Taranto (b. 1380)
• February 2 – Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, Islamic scholar (b. 1372)
• March – Dolce dell'Anguillara, Italian condottiero (b. 1401)
• May – Alexander of Islay, Earl of Ross, Lord of the Isles
• May 20 (at the Battle of Alfarrobeira)
  • Álvaro Vaz de Almada, 1st Count of Avranches
  • Peter, Duke of Coimbra (b. 1392)
• June 1 – Polissena Sforza, Lady of Rimini (b. 1428)^[6]
• August 13 – Louis IV, Elector Palatine (b. 1424)
• October 27 – Ulugh Beg, Timurid ruler and astronomer (b. 1394)^[7]
• October 31 – Elisabeth of Brandenburg, Duchess of Brzeg-Legnica and Cieszyn, German princess (b. 1403)
• November 19 – Kunigunde of Sternberg, first spouse of the King George of Podebrady (b. 1425)
• December 24 – Walter Bower, Scottish chronicler (b. 1385)^[8]

References

1. Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 123–125. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
2. Leonard von Matt; Hans Kühner (1963). The Popes: Papal History in Picture and Word. Universe Books. p. 128.
3. Sobecki, Sebastian I. (2008). The Sea and Medieval English Literature. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer. p. 155. ISBN 9781846155918.
4. Edith Carpenter (1893). Lorenzo De' Medici. G.P. Putnam's sons. p. 11.
5. "Axayácatl, "El de la máscara de agua" (1469-1481)" [Axayácatl,, "He with the Water Mask"]. Arqueologia Mexicana (in Spanish). July 6, 2016. Retrieved June 6, 2019.
6. Jones, P.J. (1974). The Malatesta of Rimini and the Papal State. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. pp. 201–202. ISBN 0-521-20042-3.
7. Sainik Samachar: The Pictorial Weekly of the Armed Forces. Director of Public Relations, Ministry of Defence. 1990. p. 20.
8. University of Oxford (1885). Register of the University of Oxford, 1449 (-1622). ed. by C.W. Boase (A. Clark). 2 vols. [in 5 pt.]. p. 168.