1451

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

January–December

 * January 7 – Pope Nicholas V issues a Papal Bull to establish The University of Glasgow; classes are initially held in Glasgow Cathedral.
 * February 3 – Murad II, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, dies and is succeeded (on February 18) by his son, Mehmed II.
 * February 14 – Louis XI of France marries Charlotte of Savoy.
 * April 11 – Celje acquires market town status and town rights, by orders from Count Frederic II of Celje.
 * April 19 – In the Delhi Sultanate, the Afghan Lodi Dynasty succeeds the Turkish Sayyid Dynasty.
 * June 30 – French troops under Jean de Dunois invade Guyenne, and capture Bordeaux.
 * August 20 – The French capture Bayonne, the last English stronghold in Guyenne.
 * October – After assassinating Bogdan II of Moldavia, Petru Aron takes up the throne.
 * October 28 – Revolt of Ghent: Ghent takes up arms against Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy.

Date unknown

 * The Great Peacemaker along with Jigonhsasee and Hiawatha, found the Haudenosaunee, commonly called the Iroquois Confederacy

Births

 * January 14 – Franchinus Gaffurius, Italian composer (d. 1522)
 * January 29 – John, Prince of Portugal, Prince of Portugal (d. 1451)
 * February 17 – Raffaello Maffei, Italian theologian (d. 1522)
 * March 5 – William Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, English earl (d. 1491)
 * March 9 – Amerigo Vespucci, Italian explorer (d. 1512)
 * April 22 – Queen Isabella I of Castile, Castillian queen regnant and first queen of a united Spain (by marriage to Ferdinand of Aragon) (d. 1504)
 * May 2 – René II, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1508)
 * May 17 – Engelbert II of Nassau, Count of Nassau-Vianden and Lord of Breda (1475–1504) (d. 1504)
 * June 1 – Giles Daubeney, 1st Baron Daubeney (d. 1508)
 * July 10 – James III of Scotland (d. 1488)
 * September 5 – Isabel Neville, Duchess of Clarence, elder daughter of Richard Neville (d. 1476)
 * November 29 – Elisabeth of Brandenburg, Duchess of Württemberg (d. 1524)
 * date unknown
 * Christopher Columbus, Italian explorer (d. 1506)
 * Ignatius Noah of Lebanon, Syriac Orthodox patriarch of Antioch (d. 1509).

Deaths



 * January 7 – Antipope Felix V (b. 1383)
 * January 18 – Henry II, Count of Nassau-Siegen, Co-ruler of Nassau-Siegen (1442–1451) (b. 1414)
 * February 3 – Murad II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1404)
 * June – ‘Abdullah, Timurid Empire ruler
 * July 11 – Barbara of Cilli, Holy Roman Empress, queen consort of Hungary and Bohemia (b. 1392)
 * October – Bogdan II of Moldavia, assassinated by Petru Aron
 * date unknown
 * Stefan Lochner, German painter (b. 1400)
 * John Lydgate, English monk and poet (b. 1370)
 * al-Mustakfi II, Abbasid Caliph