1445

Year 1445 (MCDXLV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1445 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1445
MCDXLV
Ab urbe condita2198
Armenian calendar894
ԹՎ ՊՂԴ
Assyrian calendar6195
Balinese saka calendar1366–1367
Bengali calendar852
Berber calendar2395
English Regnal year23 Hen. 6  24 Hen. 6
Buddhist calendar1989
Burmese calendar807
Byzantine calendar6953–6954
Chinese calendar甲子年 (Wood Rat)
4141 or 4081
     to 
乙丑年 (Wood Ox)
4142 or 4082
Coptic calendar1161–1162
Discordian calendar2611
Ethiopian calendar1437–1438
Hebrew calendar5205–5206
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1501–1502
 - Shaka Samvat1366–1367
 - Kali Yuga4545–4546
Holocene calendar11445
Igbo calendar445–446
Iranian calendar823–824
Islamic calendar848–849
Japanese calendarBun'an 2
(文安2年)
Javanese calendar1360–1361
Julian calendar1445
MCDXLV
Korean calendar3778
Minguo calendar467 before ROC
民前467年
Nanakshahi calendar−23
Thai solar calendar1987–1988
Tibetan calendar阳木鼠年
(male Wood-Rat)
1571 or 1190 or 418
     to 
阴木牛年
(female Wood-Ox)
1572 or 1191 or 419

Events

JanuaryDecember

  • October 10 Battle of Mokra: The Albanian forces under Skanderbeg defeat the Ottoman forces (Pope Eugene IV raises a hymn of praise, that Christendom has been provided with a new defender, after he hears of the battle).[1]

Date unknown

  • The Portuguese set up their first trading post (Feitoria) in Africa, on the island of Arguin.
  • Portuguese explorer Dinis Dias discovers the Cap-Vert, on the western coast of Africa.
  • Battle of Gomit: Emperor Zara Yaqob of Ethiopia defeats and kills Sultan Arwe Badlay, of Adal.
  • Vlad II Dracul, aided by a crusaders' fleet from Burgundy, attacks Giurgiu, and massacres the Ottoman garrison after their surrender.
  • Stephen II remains sole ruler of Moldavia.

Births

  • March 16 Johann Geiler von Kaisersberg, Swiss-born priest (d. 1510)
  • April 4 Wiguleus Fröschl of Marzoll, Bishop of Passau (1500–1517) (d. 1517)
  • October 25 Fulk Bourchier, 10th Baron FitzWarin, English baron (d. 1479)
  • October 31 Hedwig, Abbess of Quedlinburg, Princess-Abbess of Quedlinburg (d. 1511)
  • December 11 Eberhard I, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1496)
  • date unknown Albert Brudzewski, Polish astronomer (d. 1497)
  • probable Nicolas Chuquet, French mathematician
  • approximate Sandro Botticelli, Italian painter (d. 1510)[2]

Deaths

  • January 19 Antonio Correr, Spanish cardinal (b. 1359)[3]
  • February 19 Leonor of Aragon, queen of Portugal (b. 1402)
  • April 7 Louis VIII, Duke of Bavaria, German noble (b. 1403)
  • May 15 Johanna van Polanen, Dutch noblewoman (b. 1392)
  • June 5 Leonel Power, English composer
  • July 15 Joan Beaufort, Queen of Scotland[4]
  • August 2 Oswald von Wolkenstein, Austrian composer (b. 1377)
  • date unknown Olug Moxammat of Kazan, Khan of Kazan

References

  1. Wendy Sacket (1997). Chronology of European History, 15,000 B.C. to 1997: 15,000 B.C. to 1469. Salem Press. p. 442. ISBN 978-0-89356-419-3.
  2. Adolfo Venturi (1927). Botticelli. A. Zwemmer. p. 101.
  3. The early Italian pictures in the collection of Her Majesty the Queen. 1983. p. 195. ISBN 978-0-521-24214-1.
  4. Norman Macdougall (1982). James III: A Political Study. J. Donald. pp. 10–13. ISBN 978-0-85976-078-2.
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