What is 1452?
{{Year nav|1452}} {{Year in various calendars|1452}} {{Year article header|1452}} == Events == * [[March]] – [[Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor]] becomes the last to be crowned in Rome. * Portuguese navigator Diogo de Teive discovers [[Corvo Island]] in the [[Azores]]. * [[18 June]] – [[Pope Nicholas V]] issues the [[papal bull|bull]] ''[[Dum Diversas]]'', legitimising the [[Colonialism|colonial]] [[slave trade]]. * [[October]] – English troops under [[John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury]], land in [[Guyenne]], France, and retake most of the province without a fight. * A major eruption of the South Pacific volcano [[Kuwae]] in [[Vanuatu]] has a subsequent global cooling effect (the eruption released more [[sulfate]] than any other event in the past 700 years). * [[Battle of Bealach nam Broig]], a [[Scottish clan]] battle. * Murder of [[William Douglas, 8th Earl of Douglas]] by [[James II of Scotland]] at [[Stirling Castle]]. * [[Revolt of Ghent (1449-1453)|Revolt of Ghent]]: Forces of [[Philip the Good]], Duke of Burgundy, clash multiple times with rebel militia from [[Ghent]] in the region around Ghent. == Births == * [[February 6]] – [[Joana, Crown Princess of Portugal]] (d. [[1490]]) * [[March 10]] – King [[Ferdinand II of Aragon]] (d. [[1516]]) * [[April 15]] – [[Leonardo da Vinci]], Italian artist and inventor (d. [[1519]]) * [[April 19]] – King [[Frederick IV of Naples]] (d. [[1504]]) * [[July 10]] – King [[James III of Scotland]] (d. [[1488]]) * [[July 27]] – [[Ludovico Sforza]], Duke of Milan (d. [[1508]]) * [[September 21]] – [[Girolamo Savonarola]], Italian religious reformer and ruler of Florence (d. [[1498]]) * [[October 2]] – King [[Richard III of England]] (d. [[1485]]) * [[December 10]] – [[Johannes Stöffler]], German mathematician (d. [[1531]]) == Deaths == * [[February 10]] ** [[Svitrigaila]], Grand Prince of Lithuania ** [[Michał Bolesław Zygmuntowicz]], Prince of Black Ruthenia * [[May 26]] – [[John Stafford (archbishop)|John Stafford]], [[Archbishop of Canterbury]] * [[December 12]] – [[G