1451

Year 1451 was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1451

* February 3 - Murad II, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, dies and is succeeded by his son Mehmed II.
* April 11 - Celje acquires market-town status and town rights by orders from the Celje count Frederic II.
* June 30 - French troops under the Comte de Dunois invade Guyenne and capture Bordeaux.
* August 20 - The French capture Bayonne, the last English stronghold in Guyenne
* The University of Glasgow is founded.
* Nicholas of Cusa invents concave lens spectacles to treat myopia.
* Roger van der Weyden paints his "Last Judgement".
* The Afghan lodi dynasty succeds the Turkish Sayyid dynasty.

Births

* January 14 - Franchinus Gaffurius, Italian composer (d. 1522)
* April 22 - Queen Isabella of Castile (d. 1504)
* May 2 - René II, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1508)
* September 5 - Isabella Neville (d. 1476)
* Christopher Columbus, Italian explorer (d. 1506)

Deaths

* February 3 - Murad II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1404)
* June - ‘Abdullah, Timurid Empire ruler
* July 11 - Barbara of Cilli, Slovenian noblewoman
* November 7 - Count Amadeus VIII of Savoy (b. 1383)
*"date unknown"
**Stefan Lochner, painter (b. 1400)
**John Lydgate, English monk and poet (b. 1370)

Marriages

*February 14 - Louis XI of France and Charlotte of Savoy