1454

	1454 in topic:
	Subjects: Archaeology – Architecture –
	Art – Literature – Music – Science
	Leaders: State leaders – Colonial governors
	Category: Establishments – Disestablishments
	Births – Deaths – Works v • d • e

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

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.

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)