History
1455
General
Population: 421 Million*
- Religion: Death of Pope Nicholas V - Calixtus III (Alonso de Borgia) Pope (First Spanish Pope)
- Science: Halley's Comet
- Technology: Printing press invented, beginning of Bible printing era in Europe
- Deaths: Artist Fra Angelico, Pope Nicholas V, Artist Lorenzo Ghiberti,
Africa
- Venetian navigator Cadamosto explores Senegal river - discovers Cape Verde Islands and explores West Africa to 1457
Europeans reach mouth of Gambia river
Americas
- Huge temple built to Aztec war god Huitzilopochtli in Tenochtitlan
Europe
- England: Duke of York – excluded from Council – defeats royal forces at St. Albans and becomes again "Protector" – start War of the Roses – Lancaster (red) vs. York (white)
Regent Richard deposed as Henry VI recovers from insanity – Richard replaced by Duke of Somerset (Lancastrian) and excluded from Royal Council –
Battle of St. Albans – Somerset defeated and killed
- Italian States: Erection of Palazzo Venezia in Rome
- Low Countries: First European printing shop at Mainz
- Scotland: James II of Scotland defeats Black Douglas family of nobles at Arkinholm