Editing 1452

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{{C15 year in topic}}Year '''1452''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MCDLII]]''') was a [[leap year starting on Saturday]] of the [[Julian calendar]].

== Events ==
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=== January&ndash;December ===
* [[February]] &ndash; [[Alexăndrel of Moldavia|Alexăndrel]] retakes the throne of [[Moldavia]], in his long struggle with [[Petru Aron]].
* [[February 22]] &ndash; [[William Douglas, 8th Earl of Douglas]] is killed by [[James II of Scotland]], at [[Stirling Castle]].
* [[March 17]] &ndash; ''[[Reconquista]]'' &ndash; [[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]] &ndash; [[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]] &ndash; [[Revolt of Ghent (1449–53)|Revolt of Ghent]]: [[Philip the Good]], Duke of Burgundy, officially declares war on [[Ghent]].
* [[June 18]] &ndash; [[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>

== Births ==
[[File:Santa Joana, Princesa de Portugal.jpg|110px|thumbnail|right|[[Joanna, Princess of Portugal]]]]
* [[February 6]] &ndash; [[Joanna, Princess of Portugal]] (d. [[1490]])
* [[February 14]] 
**[[Davide Ghirlandaio]], Italian painter and mosaicist (d. [[1525]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Ira Moskowitz|title=Great Drawings of All Time: Italian, thirteenth through nineteenth century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C-dOAAAAYAAJ|year=1976|publisher=Kodansha International|isbn=978-0-87011-263-8|page=139}}</ref>
** [[Pandolfo Petrucci]], tyrant of Siena (d. [[1512]])
* [[March 10]] &ndash; King [[Ferdinand II of Aragon]], Aragonese king and first king of a united Spain (by marriage to Isabella of Castile) (d. [[1516]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Ferdinand II {{!}} Biography & Facts |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ferdinand-II-king-of-Spain |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=30 June 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[April 15]] &ndash; [[Leonardo da Vinci]], Italian artist and inventor (d. [[1519]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Leonardo da Vinci {{!}} Biography, Art, & Facts |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Leonardo-da-Vinci |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=3 May 2019 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[April 19]] &ndash; King [[Frederick of Naples]] (d. [[1504]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Richard J. Walsh|title=Charles the Bold and Italy (1467-1477): Politics and Personnel|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F4Wvl-xRpAoC&pg=PA302|year=2005|publisher=Liverpool University Press|isbn=978-0-85323-838-6|pages=302}}</ref>
* [[May 18]] &ndash; [[Henry the Younger of Poděbrady]], Bohemian nobleman (d. [[1492]])
* [[July 27]]
** [[Ludovico Sforza]], Duke of Milan (d. [[1508]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Grolier Incorporated|title=Academic American encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GmANAQAAMAAJ|year=1997|publisher=Grolier|page=233|isbn=9780717220687 }}</ref>
** [[Lucrezia Crivelli]], mistress of Ludovico Sforza (d. [[1534]]) (approximate date)
* [[August 12]] &ndash; [[Abraham Zacuto]], Spanish Jewish astronomer, astrologer, mathematician, rabbi and historian (d. [[1515]])
* [[September 21]] &ndash; [[Girolamo Savonarola]], Italian religious reformer (d. [[1498]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Sandro Botticelli|author2=Musée national du Luxembourg (France)|author3=Palazzo Strozzi (Florence, Italie).|title=Botticelli: From Lorenzo the Magnificent to Savonarola|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=usrqAAAAMAAJ|year=2003|publisher=Skira|isbn=978-88-8491-565-8|page=227}}</ref>
* [[October 2]] &ndash; King [[Richard III of England]] (d. [[1485]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Richard III {{!}} Biography & Facts |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Richard-III-king-of-England |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=26 June 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[December 6]] &ndash; [[Antonio Mancinelli]], Italian humanist pedagogue and grammarian (d. [[1505]])
* [[December 10]] &ndash; [[Johannes Stöffler]], German mathematician (d. [[1531]])
* ''Date unknown''
** [[Diogo Cão]], Portuguese explorer (d. [[1486]])
** [[Hugh Oldham]], English bishop and patron of education (d. [[1519]])

== Deaths ==
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[[File:Conrad IV arrests his brother Conrad VII.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Konrad VII the White]]]]
[[File:Reinhard III. von Hanau.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Reinhard III, Count of Hanau]]]]
* [[February 10]] 
** [[Švitrigaila]], Grand Prince of Lithuania
** [[Michael Žygimantaitis|Michał Bolesław Zygmuntowicz (Michael Žygimantaitis)]], Prince of Black Ruthenia
* [[February 14]] &ndash; [[Konrad VII the White]], Duke of Oleśnica
* [[February 22]] &ndash; [[William Douglas, 8th Earl of Douglas]] (b. [[1425]])
* [[April 20]] &ndash; [[Reinhard III, Count of Hanau]] (1451–1452) (b. [[1412]])
* May &ndash; [[John Stafford (bishop)|John Stafford]], [[Archbishop of Canterbury]]<ref>{{cite book |author1=Fryde, E. B. |author2=Greenway, D. E. |author3=Porter, S. |author4=Roy, I. |title=Handbook of British Chronology|edition=Third revised |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |year=1996 |isbn=0-521-56350-X |page=233}}</ref>
* October &ndash; [[Nicholas Close]], English bishop
* ''probable'' &ndash; [[Gemistus Pletho]], Greek philosopher

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