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== Events == <onlyinclude> === January–December === * [[February]] – [[Alexăndrel of Moldavia|Alexăndrel]] retakes the throne of [[Moldavia]], in his long struggle with [[Petru Aron]]. * [[February 22]] – [[William Douglas, 8th Earl of Douglas]] is killed by [[James II of Scotland]], at [[Stirling Castle]]. * [[March 17]] – ''[[Reconquista]]'' – [[Battle of Los Alporchones]] (around the city of [[Lorca, Spain|Lorca]] in [[Murcia]]): The combined forces of the [[Kingdom of Castile]], and its subsidiary kingdom of [[Region of Murcia|Murcia]], defeat the [[Emirate of Granada]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Thomas Devaney|title=Enemies in the Plaza: Urban Spectacle and the End of Spanish Frontier Culture, 1460-1492|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xzbKBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA158|date=3 April 2015|publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press|isbn=978-0-8122-9134-6|pages=158}}</ref> * [[March 19]] – [[Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor]], becomes the last to be crowned in [[Rome]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.onthisday.com/events/date/1452|title=Historical Events in 1452|work=OnThisDay.com|access-date=2017-08-08|language=en}}</ref> * [[May 31]] – [[Revolt of Ghent (1449–53)|Revolt of Ghent]]: [[Philip the Good]], Duke of Burgundy, officially declares war on [[Ghent]]. * [[June 18]] – [[Pope Nicholas V]] issues the [[papal bull|bull]] ''[[Dum Diversas]]'', legitimising the [[Colonialism|colonial]] [[History of slavery|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. ** [[Byzantine–Ottoman Wars]]: The Ottoman governor of [[Thessaly]], [[Turakhan Beg]], breaks through the [[Hexamilion wall]] for the fourth time, and ravages the [[Peloponnese]] Peninsula to prevent the Byzantine [[Despotate of the Morea]] from assisting [[Constantinople]], during the [[Fall of Constantinople|final Ottoman siege]] of the imperial capital.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Papacy and the Levant (1204–1571), volume '''II''': The Fifteenth Century|last=Setton|first=Kenneth M.|year=1978|publisher=DIANE Publishing|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0Sz2VYI0l1IC |isbn=0-87169-127-2|page=146}}</ref> === Date unknown === * A major volcanic eruption, [[1452/1453 mystery eruption]], has a subsequent global cooling effect (the eruption releases more [[sulfate]] than any other event in the previous 700 years). * [[Kingdom of Portugal|Portuguese]] navigator [[Diogo de Teive]] discovers the islands of [[Corvo Island|Corvo]] and [[Flores Island (Azores)|Flores]], in the [[Azores]]. * [[Battle of Bealach nam Broig]], a [[Scottish clan]] battle. * [[Edinburgh]] officially becomes the capital of the [[Kingdom of Scotland]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Why is Edinburgh the capital of Scotland?|url=https://edinburghtourist.co.uk/questions/why-edinburgh-capital-scotland/|work=Edinburgh Tourist|date=June 20, 2018 |accessdate=2021-07-25}}</ref></onlyinclude>
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