1448

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

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

December – Jonas, a Russian bishop, is installed by the Council of Russian bishops in Moscow as Metropolitan of Kiev and All Rus; as this is without the consent of the Patriarch of Constantinople it signifies the beginning of an effectively independent church structure in the Grand Duchy of Moscow.

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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.