Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1420s  1430s  1440s  – 1450s –  1460s  1470s  1480s
Years:	1451 1452 1453 – 1454 – 1455 1456 1457

1454 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology – Architecture –

Art – Literature – Music – Science

Leaders:   State leaders – Colonial governors

Category: Establishments – Disestablishments

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1454 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1454 MCDLIV
Ab urbe condita	2207
Armenian calendar	903 ԹՎ ՋԳ
Bahá'í calendar	-390 – -389
Bengali calendar	861
Berber calendar	2404
Buddhist calendar	1998
Burmese calendar	816
Byzantine calendar	6962 – 6963
Chinese calendar	癸酉年十二月初三日 (4090/4150-12-3) — to — 甲戌年十二月十三日 (4091/4151-12-13)
Coptic calendar	1170 – 1171
Ethiopian calendar	1446 – 1447
Hebrew calendar	5214 – 5215
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1509 – 1510
- Shaka Samvat	1376 – 1377
- Kali Yuga	4555 – 4556
Holocene calendar	11454
Iranian calendar	832 – 833
Islamic calendar	857 – 859
Japanese calendar	Kyōtoku 3 (享徳3年)
Korean calendar	3787
Thai solar calendar	1997
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Year 1454 (MCDLIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

[edit] Events of 1454

• February 4 – In the Thirteen Years' War, the Secret Council of the Prussian Confederation sends a formal act of disobedience to the Grand Master.
• March 6 – Casimir IV of Poland renounces allegiance to the Teutonic Knights.
• March 27 – Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York becomes Protector for the insane King Henry VI of England.
• April 9 – Treaty of Lodi: Francesco Sforza forms a triple alliance between the duchy of Milan, the republic of Florence and kingdom of Naples.
• September 18 – Battle of Chojnice: The Polish army is defeated by a smaller but more professional Teutonic army during the Thirteen Years' War.
• December – King Henry having regained his sanity, the Duke of York is dismissed as Protector.
• The press of Johannes Gutenberg (at Mainz on the Rhine) produces the first printed documents bearing a date.
• Isaac Sarfati 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 Turkey.^{[citation needed]}
• Statutes of Nieszawa enacted in Poland.

[edit] Births

• March 9 – Amerigo Vespucci, Italian explorer (d. 1512)
• July 14 – Poliziano, Italian humanist (d. 1494)
• September 4 – Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English politician (d. 1483)
• Date unknown:
  • Catherine Cornaro, Queen of Cyprus (d. 1510)
  • Domenico Maria Novara da Ferrara, Italian astronomer (d. 1504)
  • Pinturicchio, Italian painter (d. 1513)
  • Ch'oe Pu, Korean official and venturer to China (d. 1504)

[edit] Deaths

• March 22 – John Kemp, Archbishop of Canterbury
• July 20 – King John II of Castile (b. 1405)
• Date unknown:
  • Chiara Zorzi, regent of Athens
  • William Turnbull, Bishop of Glasgow
  • Robert Wingfield, English politician (b. 1403)