1451
Year 1451 was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar.Events
January–December
- February 3 - Murad II, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, dies and is succeeded 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 the Comte 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 University of Glasgow is founded.
- The Great Peacemaker along with Jigonhsasee and Hiawatha, found the Haudenosaunee, commonly called the Iroquois Confederacy
Births
- January 14 - Franchinus Gaffurius, Italian composer
- January 29 - John, Prince of Portugal, Prince of Portugal
- February 17 - Raffaello Maffei, Italian theologian
- March 5 - William Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, English earl
- April 22 - Queen Isabella I of Castile, Aragonese queen consort
- May 2 - René II, Duke of Lorraine
- May 17 - Engelbert II of Nassau, Count of Nassau-Vianden and Lord of Breda
- June 1 - Giles Daubeney, 1st Baron Daubeney
- July 10 - James III of Scotland
- September 5 - Isabel Neville, Duchess of Clarence, elder daughter of Richard Neville
- November 29 - Elisabeth of Brandenburg, Duchess of Württemberg
- date unknown - Christopher Columbus, Italian explorer
Deaths
- January 7 - Antipope Felix V
- February 3 - Murad II, Ottoman Sultan
- June - ‘Abdullah, Timurid Empire ruler
- June 8 - Henry II, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg, Co-ruler of Nassau-Dillenburg
- July 11 - Barbara of Cilli, Holy Roman Empress, queen consort of Hungary and Bohemia
- October - Bogdan II of Moldavia, assassinated by Petru Aron
- date unknown
- * Stefan Lochner, German painter
- * John Lydgate, English monk and poet
- * al-Mustakfi II, Abbasid Caliph
