1455

Decades: 1400s 1410s 1420s 1430s 1440s - 1450s - 1460s 1470s 1480s 1490s 1500s

Years: 1450 1451 1452 1453 1454 - 1455 - 1456 1457 1458 1459 1460

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Year in topics 3 Births 4 Deaths

Events

• February 23 - Johannes Gutenberg prints the first Bible on a printing press
• May 22 - Wars of the Roses: Battle of St Albans - Richard, Duke of York and his ally, Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick defeat the Lancastrians under Edmund Beaufort, Duke of Somerset, who is killed. York captures King Henry VI of England and has himself appointed Constable of England.

• 1455 in art

• February 1 - King John of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden
• March 3 - king John II of Portugal († 1495)