1451

1451 (MCDLI) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1451st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 451st year of the 2nd millennium, the 51st year of the 15th century, and the 2nd year of the 1450s decade. As of the start of 1451, the Gregorian calendar was 9 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1420s  1430s  1440s  – 1450s –  1460s  1470s  1480s
Years:	1448 1449 1450 – 1451 – 1452 1453 1454

1451 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1451 MCDLI
Ab urbe condita	2204
Armenian calendar	900 ԹՎ Ջ
Assyrian calendar	6201
Balinese saka calendar	1372–1373
Bengali calendar	858
Berber calendar	2401
English Regnal year	29 Hen. 6 – 30 Hen. 6
Buddhist calendar	1995
Burmese calendar	813
Byzantine calendar	6959–6960
Chinese calendar	庚午年 (Metal Horse) 4147 or 4087     — to — 辛未年 (Metal Goat) 4148 or 4088
Coptic calendar	1167–1168
Discordian calendar	2617
Ethiopian calendar	1443–1444
Hebrew calendar	5211–5212
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1507–1508
- Shaka Samvat	1372–1373
- Kali Yuga	4551–4552
Holocene calendar	11451
Igbo calendar	451–452
Iranian calendar	829–830
Islamic calendar	854–855
Japanese calendar	Hōtoku 3 (宝徳３年)
Javanese calendar	1366–1367
Julian calendar	1451 MCDLI
Korean calendar	3784
Minguo calendar	461 before ROC 民前461年
Nanakshahi calendar	−17
Thai solar calendar	1993–1994
Tibetan calendar	ལྕགས་ཕོ་རྟ་ལོ་ (male Iron-Horse) 1577 or 1196 or 424     — to — ལྕགས་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་ (female Iron-Sheep) 1578 or 1197 or 425

Events

• February 3 – Murad II, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire dies and is succeeded by his son Mehmed II.
• April 11 – Celje acquires market-town status and town rights by orders from the Celje count Frederic II.
• June 30 – French troops under the Comte de Dunois invade Guyenne and capture Bordeaux
• August 20 – The French capture Bayonne, the last English stronghold in Guyenne
• Foundation of the University of Glasgow
• Nicholas of Cusa invents concave lens spectacles to treat myopia
• Roger van der Weyden paints his Last Judgement
• Lodi dynasty succeeded the Sayyid dynasty in India

Births

• Christopher Columbus
• April 22 – Isabella of Castile