Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1420s  1430s  1440s  – 1450s –  1460s  1470s  1480s
Years:	1452 1453 1454 – 1455 – 1456 1457 1458

1455 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology – Architecture –

Art – Literature – Music – Science

Leaders:   State leaders – Colonial governors

Category: Establishments – Disestablishments

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Year 1455 (MCDLV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

[edit] Events of 1455

• January 8 – Pope Nicholas V publishes Romanus Pontifex, an encyclical addressed to King Afonso V of Portugal, which sanctions the conquest of non-Christian lands, and the reduction of native non-Christian populations to 'perpetual slavery'.
• February 23 – The Gutenberg Bible is the first book printed with movable type.
• April 8 – Pope Calixtus III succeeds Pope Nicholas V as the 209th pope.
• The Wars of the Roses begin.
• May 18 – Battle of Arkinholm: King James II of Scotland defeats the Earl of Douglas.
• May 22 – First Battle of St Albans: Richard, Duke of York, defeats and captures King Henry VI of England.

1455 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1455 MCDLV
Ab urbe condita	2208
Armenian calendar	904 ԹՎ ՋԴ
Bahá'í calendar	-389 – -388
Bengali calendar	862
Berber calendar	2405
Buddhist calendar	1999
Burmese calendar	817
Byzantine calendar	6963 – 6964
Chinese calendar	甲戌年十二月十四日 (4091/4151-12-14) — to — 乙亥年十一月廿三日 (4092/4152-11-23)
Coptic calendar	1171 – 1172
Ethiopian calendar	1447 – 1448
Hebrew calendar	5215 – 5216
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1510 – 1511
- Shaka Samvat	1377 – 1378
- Kali Yuga	4556 – 4557
Holocene calendar	11455
Iranian calendar	833 – 834
Islamic calendar	859 – 860
Japanese calendar	Kyōtoku 4Kōshō 1 (康正元年)
Korean calendar	3788
Thai solar calendar	1998
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[edit] Births

• February 2 – King John of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden (d. 1513)
• March 3 – King John II of Portugal (d. 1495)
• March 15 – Pietro Accolti, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1532)
• August 2 – John Cicero, Elector of Brandenburg (d. 1499)
• Peter Vischer the Elder, German sculptor (approximate date) (d. 1529)
• Nicholas Barnham, Knight, killed in the War of the Roses (d. 1485)

[edit] Deaths

• February 18 – Fra Angelico, Italian painter (b. 1395)
• March 24 – Pope Nicholas V (b. 1397)
• April 1 – Zbigniew Cardinal Oleśnicki, Polish bishop and statesman (b. 1389)
• May 18 – Archibald Douglas, Earl of Moray (in battle)
• May 22 – Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland, English politician (in battle)
• May 22 – Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset, English commander (in battle) (b. 1406)
• May 22 – Humphrey Stafford, Earl of Stafford (in battle)
• September 3 – Alonso Tostado, Spanish Catholic bishop
• October 22 – Johannes Brassart, Flemish composer
• December 1 – Lorenzo Ghiberti, Italian sculptor and metal smith (b. 1378)
• December 2 – Isabel of Coimbra, queen of Portugal (b. 1432)