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

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January–December

  • March 6 – Pope Nicholas V succeeds Pope Eugene IV, to become the 208th pope.
  • March 16 – A major fire destroys the centre of Valencia.
  • July 15 – The Spanish Inquisition is revived.
  • 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 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)
  • June 27 – 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 (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)
  • 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 13 – Shahrukh Mirza, 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

    • References

    1447 Wikipedia
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