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Year 1454 ( MCDLIV ) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar .

Events [ edit ]

January–December [ edit ]

• February 4 – Thirteen Years' War : The Secret Council of the Prussian Confederation sends a formal act of disobedience to the Grand Master , and the citizens of Toru? rebel against the Teutonic Knights , beginning the conflict.
• March 6 – Casimir IV of Poland renounces allegiance to the Teutonic Knights .
• March 27 – Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York , becomes Protector for King Henry VI of England , who is in a catatonic state.
• April 9 – Treaty of Lodi : Francesco Sforza forms a triple alliance between the Duchy of Milan , the Republic of Florence and Kingdom of Naples . ^[1]
• August – In Moldavia , Petru Aron retakes the throne from Alex?ndrel .
• September 18 – Thirteen Years' War – Battle of Chojnice : The Polish army is defeated by a smaller but more professional Teutonic army.
• October 9 – Thirteen Years' War : Malbork treaty between the authorities of the Teutonic Order and the mercenary forces fighting for the Teutonic Order.
• December – King Henry VI of England having regained his sanity dismisses the Duke of York as Protector.

Date unknown [ edit ]

• The press of Johannes Gutenberg (at Mainz on the Rhine) produces the first printed documents bearing a date.
• Isaac Zarfati sends a circular letter to Rhineland , Swabia , Moravia and Hungary , praising the happy conditions of the Jews under the crescent, in contrast to the "great torture chamber" under the cross, and urging them to come to the Ottoman Empire . ^[2]
• The Statutes of Nieszawa are enacted in Poland .
• The Drought of One Rabbit is recorded in Aztec history.

Births [ edit ]

• June 3 – Bogislaw X, Duke of Pomerania (1474?1523) (d. 1523 )
• June 16 – Joanna of Aragon, Queen of Naples (d. 1517 )
• July 14 – Poliziano , Italian humanist (d. 1494 )
• September 4 – Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham , English politician (d. 1483 )
• September 24 – Gerold Edlibach , Swiss historian (d. 1530 )
• November 25 – Catherine Cornaro , Queen of Cyprus (d. 1510 )
• date unknown
  • Domenico Maria Novara da Ferrara , Italian astronomer (d. 1504 )
  • Pinturicchio , Italian painter (d. 1513 )
  • Choe Bu , Korean official and venturer to China (d. 1504 )
  • Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany (d. 1485 )

Deaths [ edit ]

• March 22 – John Kemp , Archbishop of Canterbury
• July 20 – King John II of Castile (b. 1405 )
• December 10 – Ignatius Behnam Hadloyo , Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch. ^[3]
• date unknown
  • Chiara Zorzi , regent of Athens
  • William Turnbull , Bishop of Glasgow
  • Robert Wingfield , English politician (b. 1403 )

References [ edit ]