1451 Explained

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

Events

January 7 - Pope Nicholas V issues a Papal Bull^[1] 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.

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

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)^[2]
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)^[3]
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)^[4]
September 5 - Isabel Neville, Duchess of Clarence, elder daughter of Richard Neville (d. 1476)^[5]
November 29 - Elisabeth of Brandenburg, Duchess of Württemberg (d. 1524)
date unknown
- Christopher Columbus, Italian explorer (d. 1506)^[6]
- Ignatius Noah of Lebanon, Syriac Orthodox patriarch of Antioch (d. 1509).^[7]

January 7 - Antipope Felix V (b. 1383)
January 18 - Henry II, Count of Nassau-Siegen, Co-ruler of Nassau-Siegen (1442–1451) (b. 1414)^[8]
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

Web site: University of Glasgow :: Story :: The Papal Bull.
Book: ((Chase's Editors)). Contemporary Books. Chase's Calendar of Events 2003. September 2002. McGraw-Hill. 978-0-07-139098-9. 169.
Book: Peggy K. Liss. Isabel the Queen: Life and Times. 2004. University of Pennsylvania Press. 978-0-8122-1897-8. 9.
Web site: King James III: Biography on Undiscovered Scotland . www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk . 29 January 2021.
Book: Amy Licence. Anne Neville: Richard III's Tragic Queen. 15 April 2013. Amberley Publishing Limited. 978-1-4456-1177-8. 29–.
Web site: Christopher Columbus Biography, Voyages, & Facts . Encyclopedia Britannica . 21 January 2021 . en.
Book: Barsoum. 2003. The Scattered Pearls: A History of Syriac Literature and Sciences. 2nd. Gorgias Press. Matti Moosa. Ignatius Aphrem I. 14 July 2020. 508–509.
Book: Van den Berg, F.M. . Van der Klooster . L.J. . Tiethoff-Spliethoff . M.E. . Tamse . C.A. . Elzenga . E. . & . 1992 . Een Nassau’s graf in Italië . Militaire entourage rondom Oranje en andere bijdragen over het Huis van Oranje. Oranje-Nassau Museum Jaarboek 1992 . nl . Zutphen . Walburg Pers . 89 . 90-6011-812-X .