1452

This article is about the year 1452.

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

1452 by topic
Arts and science
Architecture - Art
Politics
State leaders - Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births - Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments - Disestablishments
Art and literature
1452 in poetry

1452 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1452 MCDLII
Ab urbe condita	2205
Armenian calendar	901 ԹՎ ՋԱ
Assyrian calendar	6202
Bengali calendar	859
Berber calendar	2402
English Regnal year	30 Hen. 6 – 31 Hen. 6
Buddhist calendar	1996
Burmese calendar	814
Byzantine calendar	6960–6961
Chinese calendar	辛未年 (Metal Goat) 4148 or 4088     — to — 壬申年 (Water Monkey) 4149 or 4089
Coptic calendar	1168–1169
Discordian calendar	2618
Ethiopian calendar	1444–1445
Hebrew calendar	5212–5213
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1508–1509
- Shaka Samvat	1374–1375
- Kali Yuga	4553–4554
Holocene calendar	11452
Igbo calendar	452–453
Iranian calendar	830–831
Islamic calendar	855–856
Japanese calendar	Hōtoku 4 / Kyōtoku 1 (享徳元年)
Julian calendar	1452 MCDLII
Korean calendar	3785
Minguo calendar	460 before ROC 民前460年
Thai solar calendar	1994–1995

Year 1452 (MCDLII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

• February 22 – Murder of William Douglas, 8th Earl of Douglas by James II of Scotland at Stirling Castle.
• March 17 – Reconquista: The combined forces of the Kingdom of Castile and its subsidiary kingdom of Murcia defeat the Emirate of Granada at the Battle of Los Alporchones around the city of Lorca in Murcia.
• March 19 – Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor becomes the last to be crowned in Rome.
• May 31 – Revolt of Ghent: Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, officially declares war on Ghent.
• June 18 – 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.
  • 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.

Date unknown

• 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).
• Portuguese navigator Diogo de Teive discovers the islands of Corvo and Flores in the Azores.
• Battle of Bealach nam Broig, a Scottish clan battle.

Births

Leonardo Da Vinci

• February 6 – Joanna, 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 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
  • 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 (murdered)
• May 26 – John Stafford, Archbishop of Canterbury
• October – Nicholas Close, English bishop
• December 12 – Guillaume-Hugues d'Estaing, Catholic cardinal
• probable – Gemistus Pletho, philosopher