1448

This article is about the year 1448.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1410s  1420s  1430s  – 1440s –  1450s  1460s  1470s
Years:	1445 1446 1447 – 1448 – 1449 1450 1451

1448 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
1448 in poetry

1448 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1448 MCDXLVIII
Ab urbe condita	2201
Armenian calendar	897 ԹՎ ՊՂԷ
Assyrian calendar	6198
Bengali calendar	855
Berber calendar	2398
English Regnal year	26 Hen. 6 – 27 Hen. 6
Buddhist calendar	1992
Burmese calendar	810
Byzantine calendar	6956–6957
Chinese calendar	丁卯年 (Fire Rabbit) 4144 or 4084     — to — 戊辰年 (Earth Dragon) 4145 or 4085
Coptic calendar	1164–1165
Discordian calendar	2614
Ethiopian calendar	1440–1441
Hebrew calendar	5208–5209
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1504–1505
- Shaka Samvat	1370–1371
- Kali Yuga	4549–4550
Holocene calendar	11448
Igbo calendar	448–449
Iranian calendar	826–827
Islamic calendar	851–852
Japanese calendar	Bun'an 5 (文安５年)
Julian calendar	1448 MCDXLVIII
Korean calendar	3781
Minguo calendar	464 before ROC 民前464年
Thai solar calendar	1990–1991

Year 1448 (MCDXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

• January 6 – Christopher of Bavaria, King of Denmark, Norway and Sweden dies with no designated heir, leaving all three kingdoms with vacant thrones. Brothers Bengt Jönsson Oxenstierna and Nils Jönsson Oxenstierna are selected to serve as co-regents of Sweden.
• August 14 – Battle of Oronichea results in Albanian victory: Peace between Albania and Venice is established on October 4.
• June 20 – The Regency period of Sweden ends with the election of Karl Knutsson Bonde as King Charles VIII of Sweden.
• June 28 – Charles VIII of Sweden is publicly hailed as king at Mora Stones and is crowned in Uppsala Cathedral the following day.
• September 28 – Christian of Oldenburg, betrothed to Queen Dowager Dorothea of Brandenburg, becomes King Christian I of Denmark.
• October 17 – Battle of Kosovo: Hungarian forces under John Hunyadi are defeated by the Turks due to Ottoman superiority

Date unknown

• Queens' College, Cambridge is founded by Margaret of Anjou.
• The Vatican Library is founded by Pope Nicholas V.
• Vlad III the Impaler becomes reigning Prince of Wallachia for two months before being deposed by Vladislav II.
• After a long episode of drought, flood, locust infestation, and famine in Ming Dynasty China since the year 1434, these natural afflictions finally wane and agriculture and commerce return to a state of normality.

Births

• November 4 – King Alphonso II of Naples (d. 1495)
• date unknown
  • Baeda Maryam of Ethiopia (d. 1478)
  • Nicholas I, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1473)

Deaths

• January 6 – Christopher of Bavaria, King of Denmark, Norway and Sweden (b. 1418)
• September 23 – Adolph I, Duke of Cleves (b. 1373)
• October – Carlo II Tocco, ruler of Epirus
• October 12 – Zhu Quan, Prince of Ning, Chinese military commander, historian and playwright (b. 1378)
• October 31 – John VIII Palaeologus, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1390)