1447
1447
Calendar year
Year 1447 (MCDXLVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Quick Facts
| 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) 4144 or 3937 — to — 丁卯年 (Fire Rabbit) 4145 or 3938 |
| 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 |
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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.
- September 15 – Roman II seizes the throne of Moldavia after killing his uncle, Stephen II, and will have his other uncle, Petru as co-ruler.
- 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
- The Siege of Soest, Germany, occurs, in the course of the Soest Feud.
- Tashi Lhunpo Monastery is founded by the 1st Dalai Lama at its original location in Shigatse, Tibet.[2]
- Iizasa Ienao founds Tenshin Shōden Katori Shintō-ryū, the earliest historically verifiable Japanese koryū martial art, that will still be extant in modern times.[3]
- 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 and 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)[4]
- Catherine of Genoa, Catholic mystic (d. 1510)
- probable
- Giovanni Antonio Amadeo, Italian sculptor (d. 1522)
- February 23
- March 6 – Colette of Corbie, French abbess and saint in the Catholic Church (b. 1381)[6]
- 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 (b. 1380)
- July 6 – António Martins de Chaves, Catholic cardinal (b. 1390)
- July 9 – Gruffudd Vychan, Welsh knight (b. 1390)
- July 13 – Stephen II of Moldavia, Prince of Moldavia (b. 1410)
- August 5 – John Holland, 2nd Duke of Exeter, English nobleman and military commander (b. 1395)
- August 9 – Konrad IV the Elder, 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)[7]
- November 21 – Biagio Molino, Roman Catholic patriarch (b. 1380)
- December – Vlad II Dracul, Prince of Wallachia, and his son Mircea II[8]
- Darras, J. E. (1865). A General History of the Catholic Church: from the commencement of the Christian era until the present time ... O. Shea. p. 573.
- Chö Yang: The Voice of Tibetan Religion and Culture. (1991) Year of Tibet Edition, p. 79. Gangchen Kyishong, Dharmasala, H.P., India.
- Michel de Montaigne (1914). Selections from Montaigne. D.C. Heath & Company. p. 215.
- 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.
- "Saint Colette | Biography & Facts | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved April 29, 2022.
- "Oettingen 1". genealogy.euweb.cz. Retrieved April 6, 2020.
- Treptow, Kurt W., ed. (1991). Dracula : essays on the life and times of Vlad Țepeș. Boulder, Colo.: East European Monographs. ISBN 0-88033-220-4. OCLC 24689405.
- New Advent. (2020). 'Pope Nicholas V'. Retrieved from http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11058a.htm
- https://www.hisdates.com/years/1447-historical-events.doc
- https://www.onthisday.com/date/1447