1447

Year 1447 (MCDXLVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century 15th century 16th century
Decades:	1420s 1430s 1440s 1450s 1460s
Years:	1444 1445 1446 1447 1448 1449 1450

1447 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1447 MCDXLVII
Ab urbe condita	2200
Armenian calendar	896 ԹՎ ՊՂԶ
Assyrian calendar	6197
Balinese saka calendar	1368–1369
Bengali calendar	854
Berber calendar	2397
English Regnal year	25 Hen. 6 – 26 Hen. 6
Buddhist calendar	1991
Burmese calendar	809
Byzantine calendar	6955–6956
Chinese calendar	丙寅年 (Fire Tiger) 4143 or 4083     — to — 丁卯年 (Fire Rabbit) 4144 or 4084
Coptic calendar	1163–1164
Discordian calendar	2613
Ethiopian calendar	1439–1440
Hebrew calendar	5207–5208
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1503–1504
- Shaka Samvat	1368–1369
- Kali Yuga	4547–4548
Holocene calendar	11447
Igbo calendar	447–448
Iranian calendar	825–826
Islamic calendar	850–851
Japanese calendar	Bun'an 4 (文安４年)
Javanese calendar	1362–1363
Julian calendar	1447 MCDXLVII
Korean calendar	3780
Minguo calendar	465 before ROC 民前465年
Nanakshahi calendar	−21
Thai solar calendar	1989–1990
Tibetan calendar	阳火虎年 (male Fire-Tiger) 1573 or 1192 or 420     — to — 阴火兔年 (female Fire-Rabbit) 1574 or 1193 or 421

Events

January–December

• March 6 – Pope Nicholas V succeeds Pope Eugene IV, to become the 208th pope.^[1]
• March 16 – A major fire destroys the centre of Valencia.
• 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 Albanian–Venetian War of 1447–48 begins.

Date unknown

• Roman II seizes the throne of Moldavia after killing his uncle, Stephen II, and will have his other uncle, Petru as co-ruler.
• The Siege of Soest occurs, in the course of the Soest Feud.
• According to Ryū's own sources, Iizasa Ienao founds Tenshin Shōden Katori Shintō-ryū, the earliest historically verifiable Japanese koryū martial art, that is still extant in modern times.

Births

• February 1 – Eberhard II, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1504)
• February 4 – Lodovico Lazzarelli, Italian poet (d. 1500)
• April 5 – Catherine of Genoa, Italian author and nurse (d. 1510)
• April 17 – Baptista Mantuanus, poet & carmelite (d. 1516)
• June 27 – Jean IV de Rieux, Breton noble and Marshal (d. 1518)
• July 5 – Costanzo I Sforza, Italian noble (d. 1483)
• July 6 – Jean IV de Rieux, Breton noble and Marshal (d. 1518)
• September 10 – Paolo da San Leocadio, Italian painter in Spain (d. 1520)
• October 30 – Lucas Watzenrode, Prince-Bishop of Warmia (d. 1512)
• December 3 – Bayezid II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1512)
• December 9 – Chenghua Emperor of China (d. 1487)
• December 15 – Albert IV, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1508)
• date unknown
  • Piero Capponi, Italian soldier and statesman (d. 1496)
  • Philippe de Commines, Flemish historian (d. 1511)^[2]
  • Catherine of Genoa, Catholic mystic (d. 1510)
• probable
  • Giovanni Antonio Amadeo, Italian sculptor (d. 1522)

Deaths

• February 23
  • Pope Eugene IV (b. 1383)^[3]
  • Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (b. 1390)
• March 6 – Colette of Corbie, French abbess and saint in the Catholic Church (b. 1381)^[4]
• March 13 – Shahrukh Mirza, ruler of Persia and Transoxonia (b. 1377)
• March 31 – Robert Long, English politician (b. 1390)
• April 11 – Henry Beaufort, Cardinal, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1377)
• April 22 – Yaqub al-Charkhi, Sufism (b. 1359)
• May 1 – Louis VII, Duke of Bavaria-Ingolstadt (b. 1368)
• May 12 – Hein Hoyer, German politician (13__-1447) (b. 1380)
• July 6 – António Martins de Chaves, Catholic cardinal (b. 1390)
• July 9 – Gruffudd Vychan, Welsh knight (b. 1390)
• July 22 – Stephen II of Moldavia, Prince of Moldavia (b. 1410)
• August 5 – John Holland, 2nd Duke of Exeter (b. 1395)
• August 9 – Konrad IV the Older, Polish priest (b. 1380)
• August 13 – Filippo Maria Visconti, Duke of Milan (b. 1392)
• October 31 – Tommaso Bellacci, Italian Roman Catholic professed member of the Third Order of Saint Francis (b. 1370)
• November 17 – Euphemia of Münsterberg, German sovereign (b. 1385)^[5]
• November 21 – Biagio Molino, Roman Catholic patriarch (b. 1380)
• December ~ Vlad II Dracul, Prince of Wallachia, and his son Mircea II^[6]
• unknown – Stephen II of Moldavia

References

1. J.E. Darras (1865). A General History of the Catholic Church: from the commencement of the Christian era until the present time ... O.Shea. p. 573.
2. Michel de Montaigne (1914). Selections from Montaigne. D.C. Heath & Company. p. 215.
3. Joachim W. Stieber (January 1, 1978). Pope Eugenius IV, the Council of Basel and the Secular and Ecclesiastical Authorities in the Empire: The Conflict Over Supreme Authority and Power in the Church. BRILL. p. 302. ISBN 90-04-05240-2.
4. "Saint Colette | Biography & Facts | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved April 29, 2022.
5. "Oettingen 1". genealogy.euweb.cz. Retrieved April 6, 2020.
6. Dracula : essays on the life and times of Vlad Țepeș. Treptow, Kurt W. [Boulder, Colo.]: East European Monographs. 1991. ISBN 0-88033-220-4. OCLC 24689405.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)

• New Advent. (2020). 'Pope Nicholas V'. Retrieved from http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11058a.htm
• https://www.hisdates.com/years/1447-historical-events.html
• https://www.onthisday.com/date/1447