1445

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century 15th century 16th century
Decades:	1420s 1430s 1440s 1450s 1460s
Years:	1442 1443 1444 1445 1446 1447 1448

1445 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1445 MCDXLV
Ab urbe condita	2198
Armenian calendar	894 ԹՎ ՊՂԴ
Assyrian calendar	6195
Balinese saka calendar	1366–1367
Bengali calendar	852
Berber calendar	2395
English Regnal year	23 Hen. 6 – 24 Hen. 6
Buddhist calendar	1989
Burmese calendar	807
Byzantine calendar	6953–6954
Chinese calendar	甲子年 (Wood Rat) 4142 or 3935     — to — 乙丑年 (Wood Ox) 4143 or 3936
Coptic calendar	1161–1162
Discordian calendar	2611
Ethiopian calendar	1437–1438
Hebrew calendar	5205–5206
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1501–1502
- Shaka Samvat	1366–1367
- Kali Yuga	4545–4546
Holocene calendar	11445
Igbo calendar	445–446
Iranian calendar	823–824
Islamic calendar	848–849
Japanese calendar	Bun'an 2 (文安２年)
Javanese calendar	1360–1361
Julian calendar	1445 MCDXLV
Korean calendar	3778
Minguo calendar	467 before ROC 民前467年
Nanakshahi calendar	−23
Thai solar calendar	1987–1988
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

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

Events

January–December

• April – Henry VI of England marries Margaret of Anjou.[1]
• 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, Venetian 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. Shearman, John (1983). The early Italian pictures in the collection of Her Majesty the Queen. Cambridge University Press. 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.