1452

1452 was a leap year.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1420s  1430s  1440s  – 1450s –  1460s  1470s  1480s
Years:	1449 1450 1451 – 1452 – 1453 1454 1455

Events

• March – Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor becomes the last to be crowned in Rome.
• Portuguese navigator Diogo de Teive discovers Corvo Island in the Azores.
• 18 June – 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.
• A major eruption of the South Pacific volcano Kuwae in Vanuatu has a subsequent global cooling effect (the eruption released more sulfate than any other event in the past 700 years).
• Battle of Bealach nam Broig, a Scottish clan battle.
• Murder of William Douglas, 8th Earl of Douglas by James II of Scotland at Stirling Castle.
• Revolt of Ghent: Forces of Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, clash multiple times with rebel militia from Ghent in the region around Ghent.

Births

• February 6 – Joana, Crown Princess of Portugal (d. 1490)
• March 10 – King Ferdinand II of Aragon (d. 1516)
• April 15 – Leonardo da Vinci, Italian artist and inventor (d. 1519)
• April 19 – King Frederick IV of Naples (d. 1504)
• July 10 – King James III of Scotland (d. 1488)
• July 27 – Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan (d. 1508)
• September 21 – Girolamo Savonarola, Italian religious reformer and ruler of Florence (d. 1498)
• October 2 – King Richard III of England (d. 1485)
• December 10 – Johannes Stöffler, German mathematician (d. 1531)

Deaths

• February 10
  • Svitrigaila, Grand Prince of Lithuania
  • Michał Bolesław Zygmuntowicz, Prince of Black Ruthenia
• May 26 – John Stafford, Archbishop of Canterbury
• December 12 – Guillaume Huin d'Estaing, Catholic cardinal
• date unknown
  • Nicholas Close, English bishop
  • Gemistus Pletho, philosopher
  • William Douglas, 8th Earl of Douglas