1447

This article is about the year 1447. For the number, see 1447 (number).

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 by topic
Arts and science
Architecture - Art
Politics
State leaders - Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births - Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments - Disestablishments
Art and literature
1447 in poetry

1447 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1447 MCDXLVII
Ab urbe condita	2200
Armenian calendar	896 ԹՎ ՊՂԶ
Assyrian calendar	6197
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	1369–1370
- Kali Yuga	4548–4549
Holocene calendar	11447
Igbo calendar	447–448
Iranian calendar	825–826
Islamic calendar	850–851
Japanese calendar	Bun'an 4 (文安４年)
Julian calendar	1447 MCDXLVII
Korean calendar	3780
Minguo calendar	465 before ROC 民前465年
Thai solar calendar	1989–1990

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

Events

January–December

• March 6 – Pope Nicholas V succeeds Pope Eugene IV, to become the 208th pope.
• July 15 – The Inquisition is revived in Spain.
• 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 1447-1448 begins.

Date unknown

• The Siege of Soest in the course of the Soest Feud
• 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.

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)

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 Beaufort, Cardinal, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1377)
• August 5 – John Holland, 2nd Duke of Exeter (b. 1395)
• August 13 – Filippo Maria Visconti, Duke of Milan (b. 1392)
• December – Vlad II Dracul, Prince of Wallachia