1455

1455 (MCDLV) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1455th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 455th year of the 2nd millennium, the 55th year of the 15th century, and the 6th year of the 1450s decade. As of the start of 1455, the Gregorian calendar was 9 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

1455 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1455 MCDLV
Ab urbe condita	2208
Armenian calendar	904 ԹՎ ՋԴ
Assyrian calendar	6205
Balinese saka calendar	1376–1377
Bengali calendar	862
Berber calendar	2405
English Regnal year	33 Hen. 6 – 34 Hen. 6
Buddhist calendar	1999
Burmese calendar	817
Byzantine calendar	6963–6964
Chinese calendar	甲戌年 (Wood Dog) 4151 or 4091     — to — 乙亥年 (Wood Pig) 4152 or 4092
Coptic calendar	1171–1172
Discordian calendar	2621
Ethiopian calendar	1447–1448
Hebrew calendar	5215–5216
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1511–1512
- Shaka Samvat	1376–1377
- Kali Yuga	4555–4556
Holocene calendar	11455
Igbo calendar	455–456
Iranian calendar	833–834
Islamic calendar	859–860
Japanese calendar	Kyōtoku 4 / Kōshō 1 (康正元年)
Javanese calendar	1370–1371
Julian calendar	1455 MCDLV
Korean calendar	3788
Minguo calendar	457 before ROC 民前457年
Nanakshahi calendar	−13
Thai solar calendar	1997–1998
Tibetan calendar	ཤིང་ཕོ་ཁྱི་ལོ་ (male Wood-Dog) 1581 or 1200 or 428     — to — ཤིང་མོ་ཕག་ལོ་ (female Wood-Boar) 1582 or 1201 or 429

Other calendars

• Buddhist calendar: 1997 - 1998
• Hebrew calendar: 5215 - 5216
• Islamic calendar: 859 - 860

Events

• February 9 – Wars of the Roses: Richard, Duke of York dismissed as Protector
• February 23 – Johannes Gutenberg prints the first Bible on a printing press
• May 22 – Wars of the Roses: First Battle of St Albans – Richard, Duke of York and his ally, Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick defeat the Lancastrians under Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset, who is killed. York captures King Henry VI of England and has himself appointed Constable of England.
• May 25 – Victorious Yorkish lords ritually renew the monarchy of Henry VI in St. Paul's Cathedral.