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

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January–December

  • October 10 – Battle of Mokra: The Albanian forces under Skanderbeg defeated the Ottoman forces. (Pope Eugene IV raised a hymn as a praise that Christendom has been provided with a new defender after he heard of the battle.)

    • 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 in the western coast of Africa.
  • Battle of Gomit: Emperor Zara Yaqob of Ethiopia defeats and kills Sultan Arwe Badlay of Adal.

    • 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)

    • Deaths

  • February 19 – Leonor of Aragon, queen of Portugal (b. 1402)
  • June 5 – Leonel Power, English composer
  • July 15 – Joan Beaufort, Queen of Scotland
  • August 2 – Oswald von Wolkenstein, Austrian composer (b. 1377)
  • date unknown – Olug Moxammat of Kazan, Khan of Kazan

    • References

    1445 Wikipedia
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