1450s

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1420s 1430s 1440s – 1450s – 1460s 1470s 1480s
Years:	1450 1451 1452 1453 1454 1455 1456 1457 1458 1459
Categories:	Births – Deaths – Architecture Establishments – Disestablishments

The 1450s decade ran from January 1, 1450, to December 31, 1459.

Events and trends

• Johannes Gutenberg was credited with inventing the first movable type printing press in Mainz, Germany.
• 1453 – Mehmed II of the Ottoman Empire laid siege to, and captures, Constantinople, ending the political independence of the millennium-old Roman Empire.
• 1455 – Forces led by Richard, Duke of York and Richard, Earl of Warwick captured Lancastrian King Henry VI of England. This began the Wars of the Roses; the first major event of the war was a Yorkist victory in the First Battle of St Albans.
• 1456 – Siege of Belgrade. The Hungarians under John Hunyadi routed the Turkish army of Sultan Mehmed II. The victory stopped the Ottoman Turkish advance towards Catholic Europe for 70 years.