1450 - Definition and Overview

Events

• March - French troops under Guy de Richemont besiege the English commander in France, Edmund Beaufort, Duke of Somerset, in Caen
• April 15 - Battle of Formigny. French troops under the Comte de Clermont defeat an English army under Sir Thomas Kyriel and Sir Matthew Gough which was attempting to relieve Caen
• May 8 - Jack Cade's Rebellion: Kentishmen revolt against King Henry VI.
• June 18 - Battle of Seven Oaks. Jack Cade's rebels are driven from London by loyal troops, bringing about the collapse of the rebellion
• July 6 - Surrender of Caen to the French
• August 12 - Surrender of Cherbourg, the last English territory in Normandy, to the French
• Universitat de Barcelona founded.
• Charles VIII of Sweden who was also serving as Carl I of Norway is declared deposed from the later throne in favor of Christian I of Denmark.

Births

• James Tyrrell, later alleged murderer of the Princes in the Tower (approximate date).
• Josquin Desprez, Franco-Flemish composer, the most renowned composer of the middle Renaissance
• Heinrich Isaac, Franco-Flemish composer
• Loyset Compère, French composer
• Arnolt Schlick, German composer and organist

Deaths

• King Sejong the Great of Joseon, an inventor and the ruler of Korea
• William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk