1450

Events

• March - French troops under Guy de Richemont besiege the English commander in France, Edmund Beaufort, Duke of Somerset , in Caen
• April 15 - Battle of Formigny. French troops under the Comte de Clermont defeat an English army under Sir Thomas Kyriel and Sir Matthew Gough which was attempting to relieve Caen
• May 8 - Jack Cade's Rebellion: Kentishmen revolt against King Henry VI.
• June 18 - Battle of Seven Oaks . Jack Cade's rebels are driven from London by loyal troops, bringing about the collapse of the rebellion
• July 6 - Surrender of Caen to the French
• August 12 - Surrender of Cherbourg, the last English territory in Normandy, to the French
• Universitat de Barcelona founded.
• Charles VIII of Sweden who was also serving as Carl I of Norway is declared deposed from the later throne in favor of Christian I of Denmark.

Births

• John Cabot Italian navigator and explorer who is popularly credited as the modern discoverer of Canada
• Loyset Compère, French composer
• Josquin Desprez, Franco-Flemish composer
• Heinrich Isaac, Franco-Flemish composer
• Arnolt Schlick, German composer and organist
• James Tyrrell, alleged murderer of the Princes in the Tower

Deaths

• King Sejong the Great of Joseon, inventor and ruler of Korea
• May 2 - William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk (b. 1396)