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1452
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1452
Year 1452 (MCDLII) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–March
January 19 – In Mongolia, Taisun Khan, the reigning khagan of the Northern Yuan dynasty, is killed while fleeing after a defeat at Turfan in a war with Esen Taishi. Taisun's younger brother, Agbarjin, becomes the new khagan.Alan J.K. Sanders Historical Dictionary of Mongolia 2010 University of Pennsylvania Press 978-0-8108-7452-7 xxvii
February 22 – William Douglas, 8th Earl of Douglas is killed by James II of Scotland, at Stirling Castle.
February – Alexăndrel retakes the throne of Moldavia, in his long struggle with Petru Aron.
March 17 – Reconquista – Battle of Los Alporchones (around the city of Lorca in Murcia): The combined forces of the Kingdom of Castile, and its subsidiary kingdom of Murcia, defeat the Emirate of Granada.Thomas Devaney Enemies in the Plaza: Urban Spectacle and the End of Spanish Frontier Culture, 1460-1492 https://books.google.com/books?id=xzbKBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA158 3 April 2015 University of Pennsylvania Press 978-0-8122-9134-6 158
March 19 – Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor, becomes the last to be crowned in Rome.http://www.onthisday.com/events/date/1452 Historical Events in 1452 OnThisDay.com 2017-08-08 en
March 31 – In an attempt to end the rebellion in Ghent, Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, declares war against the Ghentenaar rebels.Richard Vaughan, Philip the Good: The Apogee of Burgundy (Boydell Press, 2002), 0851159176, p.128
April–June
April 27 – George of Poděbrady is elected as regent of Bohemia until King Ladislaus of Hungary reaches the age of majority.Šmahel František Pánek Jaroslav Tůma Oldřich A History of the Czech Lands Charles University in Prague 2011 164 The Hussite Revolution (1419–1471) 978-80-246-1645-2
May 2 – Jean Bréhal, chief of the French inquisition, reopens the case of Joan of Arc, who had been executed more than 20 years earlier for heresy and begins taking testimony from witnesses.Pernoud Régine 2007 The Retrial of Joan of Arc; The Evidence at the Trial For Her Rehabilitation 1450–1456 San Francisco Harcourt, Brace and Company 1955 261 https://archive.org/details/retrialofjoanofa00regi registration 9781586171780 1338471
May 4 – Pope John XI of Alexandria, leader of the Coptic Christian church since 1427, dies, leaving a vacancy in the Coptic papacy.
May 18 – The Battle of Brechin is fought in Scotland between the royalist supporters of Clan Gordon (led by Alexander Gordon, 1st Earl of Huntly) and the rebels of Clan Lindsay, led by Alexander Lindsay, 4th Earl of Crawford.Lawson John Parker John Parker Lawson 1839 Historical Tales of the Wars of Scotland, And of the Border Raids, Forays and Conflicts https://archive.org/details/historicaltaleso01lawsuoft/page/n7/mode/2up 1 Edinburgh, London and Dublin Archibald Fullarton 215-217 215 November 7, 2021 Clan Gordon wins and the Lindsays submit to the authority of King James II.
May 20 – China's Emperor Daizhong, brother of the former emperor Yingzong, designates his son as the new heir to the throne, demoting Daizhong's son Zhu Jianshen and placing his own son, Zhu Janji, as next in line for the throne.Goodrich L. Carington Dictionary of Ming Biography, 1368-1644 Fang Chaoying Fang Chao-ying Columbia University Press 1976 296 0-231-03801-1 New York
June 18 – Pope Nicholas V issues the bull Dum Diversas, legitimising the colonial slave trade.
July–September
July 21 – The League of God's House signs a peace treaty with the counts of Ortenstein in the Swiss Canton of Graubünden to fund the rebuilding of Ortenstein Castle, as long as they promise never to use the castle against the League.http://www.burgenwelt.org/schweiz/ober_tagstein/index.htm Burg Ortenstein 15 March 2017 www.burgenwelt.ch March 16, 2017 https://web.archive.org/web/20170316025154/http://www.burgenwelt.org/schweiz/ober_tagstein/index.htm dead
July 26 – The University of Valence is founded in France by the Dauphin Louis, son of King Charles VII. The university lasts for 330 years until being closed during the French Revolution.University of Valence
August 10 (25th day of 7th month of Hōtoku 4 – The Kyōtoku era is proclaimed in Japan during the reign of the Emperor Go-Hanazono.
September 14 – Serbian General Thomas Kantakouzenos leads troops in an invasion of the Principality of Zeta but is driven back by the Prince of Zeta, Stefan Crnojević.Donald M. Nicol, The Byzantine Family of Kantakouzenos (Cantacuzenus), ca. 1100–1460: A Genealogical and Prosopographical Study (Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies, 1968) p.183. OCLC 390843
September 23 – Pope Matthew II of Alexandria is elected as the new Patriarch of the Coptic Christian Church, succeeding Pope John XI, who died on May 4.
October–December
October 17 – English troops under John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, land in Guyenne, in France, in order to recapture and retake most of the Guyenne province.David Nicolle, The Fall of English France, 1449–53 (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012) 1849086176
October 23 – The Earl of Shrewsbury and his army capture Bordeaux, capital of Gascony, after having taken back most of the province without resistance.Wagner J. http://dl.lilibook.ir/2016/03/Encyclopedia-of-the-Hundred-Years-War.pdf Encyclopedia of the Hundred Years War 2006 Greenwood Press 978-0-3133-2736-0 Westport, CT 75 https://web.archive.org/web/20180716235643/http://dl.lilibook.ir/2016/03/Encyclopedia-of-the-Hundred-Years-War.pdf 16 July 2018
October – Byzantine–Ottoman Wars: The Ottoman governor of Thessaly, Turakhan Beg, breaks through the Hexamilion wall for the fourth time, and ravages the Peloponnese Peninsula to prevent the Byzantine Despotate of the Morea from assisting Constantinople, during the final Ottoman siege of the imperial capital.The Papacy and the Levant (1204–1571), volume II: The Fifteenth Century Setton Kenneth M. 1978 DIANE Publishing https://books.google.com/books?id=0Sz2VYI0l1IC 0-87169-127-2 146
November 23 – The Canton of Appenzell becomes an associate member of the Swiss Confederacy. Full membership will be granted more than 50 years later in 1513.
December 12 – Isidore of Kiev, the Latin Patriarch of Constantinople, proclaims the union of the Greek and Latin churches at the Hagia Sophia in hopes of an alliance with Western Christians to prevent the loss of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks.Isidore of Kiev, Encyclopædia Britannica, 2008, O.Ed.
Date unknown
A major volcanic eruption, 1452/1453 mystery eruption, has a subsequent global cooling effect (the eruption releases more sulfate than any other event in the previous 700 years).
Portuguese navigator Diogo de Teive discovers the islands of Corvo and Flores, in the Azores.
Battle of Bealach nam Broig, a Scottish clan battle.
Edinburgh officially becomes the capital of the Kingdom of Scotland.Why is Edinburgh the capital of Scotland? https://edinburghtourist.co.uk/questions/why-edinburgh-capital-scotland/ Edinburgh Tourist June 20, 2018 2021-07-25
Births
110px|thumbnail|right|Joanna, Princess of Portugal
February 6 – Joanna, Princess of Portugal (d. 1490)
February 14
Davide Ghirlandaio, Italian painter and mosaicist (d. 1525)Ira Moskowitz Great Drawings of All Time: Italian, thirteenth through nineteenth century https://books.google.com/books?id=C-dOAAAAYAAJ 1976 Kodansha International 978-0-87011-263-8 139
Pandolfo Petrucci, tyrant of Siena (d. 1512)
March 10 – King Ferdinand II of Aragon, Aragonese king and first king of a united Spain (by marriage to Isabella of Castile) (d. 1516)Ferdinand II Biography & Facts https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ferdinand-II-king-of-Spain Encyclopedia Britannica 30 June 2020 en
April 15 – Leonardo da Vinci, Italian artist and inventor (d. 1519)Leonardo da Vinci Biography, Art, & Facts https://www.britannica.com/biography/Leonardo-da-Vinci Encyclopedia Britannica 3 May 2019 en
April 19 – King Frederick of Naples (d. 1504)Richard J. Walsh Charles the Bold and Italy (1467-1477): Politics and Personnel https://books.google.com/books?id=F4Wvl-xRpAoC&pg=PA302 2005 Liverpool University Press 978-0-85323-838-6 302
May 18 – Henry the Younger of Poděbrady, Bohemian nobleman (d. 1492)
July 27
Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan (d. 1508)Grolier Incorporated Academic American encyclopedia https://books.google.com/books?id=GmANAQAAMAAJ 1997 Grolier 233 9780717220687
Lucrezia Crivelli, mistress of Ludovico Sforza (d. 1534) (approximate date)
August 12 – Abraham Zacuto, Spanish Jewish astronomer, astrologer, mathematician, rabbi and historian (d. 1515)
September 21 – Girolamo Savonarola, Italian religious reformer (d. 1498)Sandro Botticelli Musée national du Luxembourg (France) Palazzo Strozzi (Florence, Italie). Botticelli: From Lorenzo the Magnificent to Savonarola https://books.google.com/books?id=usrqAAAAMAAJ 2003 Skira 978-88-8491-565-8 227
October 2 – King Richard III of England (d. 1485)Richard III Biography & Facts https://www.britannica.com/biography/Richard-III-king-of-England Encyclopedia Britannica 26 June 2020 en
December 6 – Antonio Mancinelli, Italian humanist pedagogue and grammarian (d. 1505)
December 10 – Johannes Stöffler, German mathematician (d. 1531)
Date unknown
Diogo Cão, Portuguese explorer (d. 1486)
Hugh Oldham, English bishop and patron of education (d. 1519)
Deaths
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thumb|110px|Konrad VII the White
thumb|110px|Reinhard III, Count of Hanau
February 10
Švitrigaila, Grand Prince of Lithuania
Michał Bolesław Zygmuntowicz (Michael Žygimantaitis), Prince of Black Ruthenia
February 14 – Konrad VII the White, Duke of Oleśnica
February 22 – William Douglas, 8th Earl of Douglas (b. 1425)
April 20 – Reinhard III, Count of Hanau (1451–1452) (b. 1412)
May – John Stafford, Archbishop of CanterburyFryde, E. B. Greenway, D. E. Porter, S. Roy, I. Handbook of British Chronology Third revised Cambridge University Press Cambridge 1996 0-521-56350-X 233
October – Nicholas Close, English bishop
probable – Gemistus Pletho, Greek philosopher
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