1454

This article is about the year 1454.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1420s  1430s  1440s  – 1450s –  1460s  1470s  1480s
Years:	1451 1452 1453 – 1454 – 1455 1456 1457

1454 by topic
Arts and science
Architecture - Art
Politics
State leaders - Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births - Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments - Disestablishments
Art and literature
1454 in poetry

1454 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1454 MCDLIV
Ab urbe condita	2207
Armenian calendar	903 ԹՎ ՋԳ
Assyrian calendar	6204
Bengali calendar	861
Berber calendar	2404
English Regnal year	32 Hen. 6 – 33 Hen. 6
Buddhist calendar	1998
Burmese calendar	816
Byzantine calendar	6962–6963
Chinese calendar	癸酉年 (Water Rooster) 4150 or 4090     — to — 甲戌年 (Wood Dog) 4151 or 4091
Coptic calendar	1170–1171
Discordian calendar	2620
Ethiopian calendar	1446–1447
Hebrew calendar	5214–5215
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1510–1511
- Shaka Samvat	1376–1377
- Kali Yuga	4555–4556
Holocene calendar	11454
Igbo calendar	454–455
Iranian calendar	832–833
Islamic calendar	857–859
Japanese calendar	Kyōtoku 3 (享徳３年)
Julian calendar	1454 MCDLIV
Korean calendar	3787
Minguo calendar	458 before ROC 民前458年
Thai solar calendar	1996–1997

Year 1454 (MCDLIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

• February 4 – Beginning the Thirteen Years' War, the Secret Council of the Prussian Confederation sends a formal act of disobedience to the Grand Master and the citizens of Toruń rebel against the Teutonic Knights.
• March 6 – Casimir IV of Poland renounces allegiance to the Teutonic Knights.
• March 27 – Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York becomes Protector for the insane King Henry VI of England.
• April 9 – Treaty of Lodi: Francesco Sforza forms a triple alliance between the Duchy of Milan, the Republic of Florence and Kingdom of Naples.
• September 18 – Battle of Chojnice: The Polish army is defeated by a smaller but more professional Teutonic army during the Thirteen Years' War.
• December – King Henry of England having regained his sanity, the Duke of York is dismissed as Protector.

Date unknown

• The press of Johannes Gutenberg (at Mainz on the Rhine) produces the first printed documents bearing a date.
• Isaac Zarfati sends a circular letter to Rhineland, Swabia, Moravia and Hungary, praising the happy conditions of the Jews under the crescent in contrast to the "great torture chamber" under the cross and urging them to come to Turkey.[1]
• Statutes of Nieszawa enacted in Poland.

Births

• March 9 – Amerigo Vespucci, Italian explorer (d. 1512)
• July 14 – Poliziano, Italian humanist (d. 1494)
• September 4 – Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English politician (d. 1483)
• November 25 – Catherine Cornaro, Queen of Cyprus (d. 1510)
• date unknown
  • Domenico Maria Novara da Ferrara, Italian astronomer (d. 1504)
  • Pinturicchio, Italian painter (d. 1513)
  • Choe Bu, Korean official and venturer to China (d. 1504)
  • Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany (d. 1485)

Deaths

• March 22 – John Kemp, Archbishop of Canterbury
• July 20 – King John II of Castile (b. 1405)
• date unknown
  • Chiara Zorzi, regent of Athens
  • William Turnbull, Bishop of Glasgow
  • Robert Wingfield, English politician (b. 1403)

References

[1] Isaac Zarfati: www.turkishjews.com/history/letter.asp