1447
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| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 14th century - 15th century - 16th century |
| Decades: | 1410s 1420s 1430s - 1440s - 1450s 1460s 1470s |
| Years: | 1444 1445 1446 - 1447 - 1448 1449 1450 |
| 1447 in topic: |
| Subjects: Archaeology - Architecture - |
| Art - Literature - Music - Science |
| Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors |
| Category: Establishments - Disestablishments |
| Births - Deaths - Works |
Year 1447 (MCDXLVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
[edit] Events of 1447
- March 6 – Pope Nicholas V succeeds Pope Eugene IV as the 208th pope.
- December – Vlad II Dracul, ruler of Wallachia, and his eldest son Mircea are assassinated. Vladislav II succeeds him with the assistance of John Hunyadi.
- The Siege of Soest in the course of the Soester Fehde
- According to Ryū's own sources, Iizasa Ienao founds Tenshin Shoden Katori Shinto-ryu, the earliest historically verifiable Japanese koryū martial art that is still extant today.
| Gregorian calendar | 1447 MCDXLVII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2200 |
| Armenian calendar | 896 ԹՎ ՊՂԶ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -397 – -396 |
| Berber calendar | 2397 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1991 |
| Burmese calendar | 809 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6955 – 6956 |
| Chinese calendar | 丙寅年十二月十五日 (4083/4143-12-15) — to —
丁卯年十一月廿四日(4084/4144-11-24) |
| Coptic calendar | 1163 – 1164 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1439 – 1440 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5207 – 5208 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1502 – 1503 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1369 – 1370 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4548 – 4549 |
| Holocene calendar | 11447 |
| Iranian calendar | 825 – 826 |
| Islamic calendar | 850 – 851 |
| Japanese calendar | Bunnan 4 (文安4年) |
| Korean calendar | 3780 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1990 |
[edit] Births
- December 9 – Chenghua Emperor of China (d. 1487)
- date unknown
- Piero Capponi, Italian soldier and statesman (d. 1496)
- Philippe de Commines, Flemish historian (d. 1511)
- Catherine of Genoa, woman mystic (d. 1510)
- probable
- Giovanni Antonio Amadeo, Italian sculptor (d. 1522)
- Bayezid II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1512)
[edit] Deaths
- February 23
- Pope Eugene IV (b. 1383)
- Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (b. 1390)
- March 12 – Shah Rukh, ruler of Persia and Transoxonia (b. 1377)
- April 11 – Henry Cardinal Beaufort, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1377)
- August 13 – Filippo Maria Visconti, Duke of Milan (b. 1392)
- December – Vlad II Dracul, Prince of Wallachia
- date unknown – John Holland, 2nd Duke of Exeter (b. 1395)
