1449

This article is about the year 1449.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1410s  1420s  1430s  – 1440s –  1450s  1460s  1470s
Years:	1446 1447 1448 – 1449 – 1450 1451 1452

1449 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
1449 in poetry

1449 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1449 MCDXLIX
Ab urbe condita	2202
Armenian calendar	898 ԹՎ ՊՂԸ
Assyrian calendar	6199
Bengali calendar	856
Berber calendar	2399
English Regnal year	27 Hen. 6 – 28 Hen. 6
Buddhist calendar	1993
Burmese calendar	811
Byzantine calendar	6957–6958
Chinese calendar	戊辰年 (Earth Dragon) 4145 or 4085     — to — 己巳年 (Earth Snake) 4146 or 4086
Coptic calendar	1165–1166
Discordian calendar	2615
Ethiopian calendar	1441–1442
Hebrew calendar	5209–5210
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1505–1506
- Shaka Samvat	1371–1372
- Kali Yuga	4550–4551
Holocene calendar	11449
Igbo calendar	449–450
Iranian calendar	827–828
Islamic calendar	852–853
Japanese calendar	Bun'an 6 / Hōtoku 1 (宝徳元年)
Julian calendar	1449 MCDXLIX
Korean calendar	3782
Minguo calendar	463 before ROC 民前463年
Thai solar calendar	1991–1992

Year 1449 (MCDXLIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

• January 6 – Constantine XI Palaiologos is crowned Byzantine Emperor at Mistra. He will be the last in a line of rulers that can be traced to the founding of Rome.
• April 7 – The last Antipope, Felix V, abdicates.
• April 19 – Pope Nicholas V is elected by the Council of Basel.
• April 25 – The Council of Basel dissolves itself.
• May 14 – Second Siege of Sfetigrad (1449): Garrison surrenders and Ottomans seize the fortress.
• May 20 – Tensions between King Afonso V of Portugal and Peter, Duke of Coimbra erupt at the Battle of Alfarrobeira. Defeat of the Duke's forces.
• August 13 – First Margrave War: Albrecht III Achilles, Elector of Brandenburg takes Lichtenau Fortress from Nuremberg.
• September 3 – Battle of Tumu Fortress: The Oirat Mongols defeat the Ming dynasty army and capture the Zhengtong Emperor of China; the latter is officially deposed while his brother ascends as the Jingtai Emperor the next year.
• October 29 – The French recapture Rouen from the English.

Births

• January 1 – Lorenzo de' Medici, Italian statesman (d. 1492)
• January 17 – Blessed Osanna of Mantua, Dominican mystic (d. 1505)
• April 27 – Asakura Ujikage, Japanese clan head (d. 1486)
• October 8 – Bona of Savoy, Duchess of Milan (d. 1503)
• October 21 – George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence, brother of Edward IV of England and Richard III of England (d. 1478)
• date unknown
  • Aldus Manutius, Italian printer
  • Archibald Douglas, 5th Earl of Angus (d. 1513)
  • Domenico Gagini, sculptor (d. 1492)
  • Domenico Ghirlandaio, Italian artist (d. 1494)
  • Magnus Hundt, German physician and theologian (d. 1519)
  • Margaret of Thuringia, wife of the Elector of Brandenburg (d. 1501)
• probable
  • Ilham Ghali khan of Kazan Khanate, (d. 1490)
  • Srimanta Sankardeva, Assamese scholar and religious figure (d. c. 1568)

Deaths

• January 3 – Anne de Beauchamp, 15th Countess of Warwick (b. 1443)
• January 4 – Cecilia of Brandenburg, Duchess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (b. c.1405)
• January 21 – Giovanni Berardi, Archbishop of Taranto (b. 1380)
• March – Dolce dell'Anguillara, condottiero (b. 1401)
• May – Alexander of Islay, Earl of Ross, Lord of the Isles
• May 20 (at the Battle of Alfarrobeira)
  • Álvaro Vaz de Almada, 1st Count of Avranches
  • Infante Pedro, Duke of Coimbra (b. 1392)
• August 13 – Louis IV, Elector Palatine (b. 1424)
• October 27 – Ulugh Beg, Timurid ruler and astronomer (b. 1394)
• November 7 – Konrad von Erlichshausen, Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights
• December 24 – Walter Bower, Scottish chronicler (b. 1385)