Year 1449 - kuchewar

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.
February – Alexăndrel seizes the throne of Moldavia, with the support of the boyars.
March 24 – Hundred Years’ War: English capture Fougères in Brittany.
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 – An English privateering fleet led by Robert Wennington challenges ships of the Hanseatic League.
May 14 – Second Siege of Sfetigrad (1449): The Albanian garrison surrenders and the Ottomans seize the fortress.
May 20 – Battle of Alfarrobeira: King Afonso V of Portugal defeats the forces of Peter, Duke of Coimbra.
July – Hundred Years’ War: French invade Normandy.
August 13 – First Margrave War: Albrecht III Achilles, Elector of Brandenburg takes Lichtenau Fortress from Nuremberg.
September 1 – 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 – Bogdan II of Moldavia enters the country with troops from John Hunyadi, and takes the throne after Alexăndrel flees.
October 29 – The French recapture Rouen from the English.

January 1 – Lorenzo de’ Medici, Italian statesman (d. 1492)
January 17 – Osanna of Mantua, Italian Dominican tertiary (d. 1505)
February 7 – Adriana of Nassau-Dillenburg, consort of Count Philip I of Hanau-Münzenberg (d. 1477)
April 27 – Asakura Ujikage, 8th head of the Asakura clan of Japan (d. 1486)
August 10 – Bona of Savoy, Duchess of Savoy (d. 1503)
September 20 – Philipp I, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg, German noble (d. 1500)
October 21 – George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence, brother of Edward IV of England and Richard III of England (d. 1478)
November 11 – Catherine of Poděbrady, Hungarian Queen (d. 1464)
November 14 – Sidonie of Poděbrady, Bohemian princess, duchess consort of Saxony (d. 1510)
December 6 – Dorotea Gonzaga, Italian noble (d. 1467)
date unknown
- Aldus Manutius, Italian printer
- Archibald Douglas, 5th Earl of Angus (d. 1513)
- Axayacatl, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan (d. 1481)
- Domenico Gagini, Italian sculptor (d. 1492)
- Domenico Ghirlandaio, Italian artist (d. 1494)
- Magnus Hundt, German physician and theologian (d. 1519)
- Margaret of Thuringia, Electress consort of Brandenburg (d. 1501)
probable
- Ilham Ghali khan of Kazan Khanate, (d. 1490)
- Srimanta Sankardeva, Assamese scholar and religious figure (d. c. 1568)
- Mandukhai Khatun, Mongolian queen

January 4 – Cecilia of Brandenburg, Duchess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (b. c.1405)
January 21 – Giovanni Berardi, Archbishop of Taranto (b. 1380)
February 2 – Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, Islamic scholar (b. 1372)
March – Dolce dell’Anguillara, Italian 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
- Peter, Duke of Coimbra (b. 1392)
August 13 – Louis IV, Elector Palatine (b. 1424)
October 27 – Ulugh Beg, Timurid ruler and astronomer (b. 1394)
October 31 – Elisabeth of Brandenburg, Duchess of Brzeg-Legnica and Cieszyn, German princess (b. 1403)
November 19 – Kunigunde of Sternberg, first spouse of the King George of Podebrady (b. 1425)
December 24 – Walter Bower, Scottish chronicler (b. 1385)