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Year 1449 (MCDXLIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January 6 – Constantine XI Palaiologos is crowned Byzantine Emperor at Mistra; he will be the last in a line of rulers that can be traced to the founding of Rome.
February – Alexăndrel seizes the throne of Moldavia, with the support of the boyars.
March 24 – Hundred Years' War: English capture Fougères in Brittany.^[1]
April 7 – The last Antipope, Felix V, abdicates.
April 19 – Pope Nicholas V is elected by the Council of Basel.^[2]
April 25 – The Council of Basel dissolves itself.
May – An English privateering fleet led by Robert Wennington challenges ships of the Hanseatic League.^[3]
May 14 – Second Siege of Sfetigrad (1449): The Albanian garrison surrenders and the Ottomans seize the fortress.
May 20 – Battle of Alfarrobeira: King Afonso V of Portugal defeats the forces of Peter, Duke of Coimbra.
July – Hundred Years' War: French invade Normandy.^[1]
August 13 – First Margrave War: Albrecht III Achilles, Elector of Brandenburg takes Lichtenau Fortress from Nuremberg.
September 1 – Battle of Tumu Fortress: The Oirat Mongols defeat the Ming dynasty army, and capture the Zhengtong Emperor of China; the latter is officially deposed, while his brother ascends as the Jingtai Emperor the next year.
October – Bogdan II of Moldavia enters the country with troops from John Hunyadi, and takes the throne after Alexăndrel flees.
October 29 – The French recapture Rouen from the English.^[1]

January 1 – Lorenzo de' Medici, Italian statesman (d. 1492)^[4]
January 17 – Osanna of Mantua, Italian Dominican tertiary (d. 1505)
February 7 – Adriana of Nassau-Dillenburg, consort of Count Philip I of Hanau-Münzenberg (d. 1477)
April 27 – Asakura Ujikage, 8th head of the Asakura clan of Japan (d. 1486)
August 10 – Bona of Savoy, Duchess of Savoy (d. 1503)
September 20 – Philipp I, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg, German noble (d. 1500)
October 21 – George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence, brother of Edward IV of England and Richard III of England (d. 1478)
November 11 – Catherine of Poděbrady, Hungarian Queen (d. 1464)
November 14 – Sidonie of Poděbrady, Bohemian princess, duchess consort of Saxony (d. 1510)
December 6 – Dorotea Gonzaga, Italian noble (d. 1467)
date unknown
- Aldus Manutius, Italian printer
- Archibald Douglas, 5th Earl of Angus (d. 1513)
- Axayacatl, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan (d. 1481)^[5]
- Domenico Gagini, Italian sculptor (d. 1492)
- Domenico Ghirlandaio, Italian artist (d. 1494)
- Magnus Hundt, German physician and theologian (d. 1519)
- Margaret of Thuringia, Electress consort of Brandenburg (d. 1501)
probable
- Ilham Ghali khan of Kazan Khanate, (d. 1490)
- Srimanta Sankardeva, Assamese scholar and religious figure (d. c. 1568)
- Mandukhai Khatun, Mongolian queen

^ ^a ^b ^c Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 123–125. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
^ Leonard von Matt; Hans Kühner (1963). The Popes: Papal History in Picture and Word. Universe Books. p. 128.
^ Sobecki, Sebastian I. (2008). The Sea and Medieval English Literature. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer. p. 155. ISBN 9781846155918.
^ Edith Carpenter (1893). Lorenzo De' Medici. G.P. Putnam's sons. p. 11.
^ "Axayácatl, "El de la máscara de agua" (1469-1481)" [Axayácatl,, "He with the Water Mask"]. Arqueologia Mexicana (in Spanish). Retrieved June 6, 2019.
^ Sainik Samachar: The Pictorial Weekly of the Armed Forces. Director of Public Relations, Ministry of Defence. 1990. p. 20.
^ University of Oxford (1885). Register of the University of Oxford, 1449 (-1622). ed. by C.W. Boase (A. Clark). 2 vols. [in 5 pt.]. p. 168.

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