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Year 1454 was a Common Year Starting On Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian Calendar .

EVENTS OF 1454

February 4 - In the Thirteen Years' War , the Secret Council of the Prussian Confederacy 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

forms a triple alliance between the duchy of Milan , republic of Florence and kingdom of Naples

September 18 - In the Battle Of Chojnice , the Polish army is defeated by a smaller but more professional Teutonic army during 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

BIRTHS

March 9 - Amerigo Vespucci , Italian explorer (died 1512 )

July 14 - Poliziano , Italian humanist (d. 1494 )

September 4 - Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke Of Buckingham , English politician (died 1483 )

''date unknown''

--- Catherine Cornaro , Queen of Cyprus (died 1510 )

--- Domenico Maria Novara Da Ferrara , Italian astronomer (died 1504 )

--- Pinturicchio , Italian painter (died 1513 )

DEATHS

March 22 - John Kemp , Archbishop Of Canterbury

July 20 - King John II Of Castile (born 1405 )

''date unknown''

--- Chiara Zorzi , regent of Athens

--- William Turnbull , Bishop of Glasgow

--- Robert Wingfield , English politician (born 1403 )