1452

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

Events of 1452

• March - Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor becomes the last to be crowned in Rome.
• Portuguese navigator Diogo de Teive discovers Corvo Island in the Azores.
• 18 June - 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.
• A major eruption of the South Pacific volcano Kuwae in Vanuatu has a subsequent global cooling effect (the eruption released more sulphate than any other event in the past 700 years).

Births

• February 6 - Joana, Crown 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 10 - King James III of Scotland (d. 1488)
• 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
  • Svitrigaila, Grand Prince of Lithuania
  • Michał Bolesław Zygmuntowicz, Prince of Black Ruthenia
• May 26 - John Stafford, Archbishop of Canterbury
• December 12 - Guillaume Huin d\'Estaing, Catholic cardinal
• date unknown
  • Nicholas Close, English bishop
  • Gemistus Pletho, philosopher

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