1447
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{{C15 year in topic}}Year 1447 (MCDXLVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar.
Events
= January–December =
- March 6 – Pope Nicholas V succeeds Pope Eugene IV, to become the 208th pope.{{cite book|first=J. E.|last=Darras|title=A General History of the Catholic Church: from the commencement of the Christian era until the present time ...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mnR-Zq6Q4xIC&pg=PA573|year=1865|publisher=O. Shea|pages=573}}
- March 16 – A major fire destroys the centre of Valencia.
- September 15 – Roman II seizes the throne of Moldavia after killing his uncle, Stephen II, and will have his other uncle, Petru as co-ruler.
- 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, Germany, occurs, in the course of the Soest Feud.
- Tashi Lhunpo Monastery is founded by the 1st Dalai Lama at its original location in Shigatse, Tibet.Chö Yang: The Voice of Tibetan Religion and Culture. (1991) Year of Tibet Edition, p. 79. Gangchen Kyishong, Dharmasala, H.P., India.
- Iizasa Ienao founds Tenshin Shōden Katori Shintō-ryū, the earliest historically verifiable Japanese koryū martial art, that will still be extant in modern times.According to Ryū's own sources.
Births
- February 1 – Eberhard II, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1504)
- February 4 – Lodovico Lazzarelli, Italian poet (d. 1500)
- April 5 – Catherine of Genoa, Italian author and nurse (d. 1510)
- April 17 – Baptista Mantuanus, poet and carmelite (d. 1516)
- June 27 – Jean IV de Rieux, Breton noble and Marshal (d. 1518)
- July 5 – Costanzo I Sforza, Italian noble (d. 1483)
- 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, Ottoman Sultan (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){{cite book|author=Michel de Montaigne|title=Selections from Montaigne|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G8UUAAAAMAAJ|year=1914|publisher=D.C. Heath & Company|page=215}}
- Catherine of Genoa, Catholic mystic (d. 1510)
- probable
- Giovanni Antonio Amadeo, Italian sculptor (d. 1522)
Deaths
- February 23
- Pope Eugene IV (b. 1383){{cite book|author=Joachim W. Stieber|title=Pope Eugenius IV, the Council of Basel and the Secular and Ecclesiastical Authorities in the Empire: The Conflict Over Supreme Authority and Power in the Church|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5R_2clxgcr4C&pg=PA302|date=1 January 1978|publisher=BRILL|isbn=90-04-05240-2|pages=302}}
- Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (b. 1390)
- March 6 – Colette of Corbie, French abbess and saint in the Catholic Church (b. 1381){{cite web |title=Saint Colette {{!}} Biography & Facts {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Colette |website=www.britannica.com |access-date=29 April 2022 |language=en}}
- March 13 – Shahrukh Mirza, ruler of Persia and Transoxonia (b. 1377)
- March 31 – Robert Long, English politician (b. 1390)
- April 11 – Henry Beaufort, Cardinal, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1377)
- April 22 – Yaqub al-Charkhi, Sufism (b. 1359)
- May 1 – Louis VII, Duke of Bavaria-Ingolstadt (b. 1368)
- May 12 – Hein Hoyer, German politician (b. 1380)
- July 6 – António Martins de Chaves, Catholic cardinal (b. 1390)
- July 9 – Gruffudd Vychan, Welsh knight (b. 1390)
- July 13 – Stephen II of Moldavia, Prince of Moldavia (b. 1410)
- August 5 – John Holland, 2nd Duke of Exeter, English nobleman and military commander (b. 1395)
- August 9 – Konrad IV the Elder, Polish priest (b. 1380)
- August 13 – Filippo Maria Visconti, Duke of Milan (b. 1392)
- October 31 – Tommaso Bellacci, Italian Roman Catholic professed member of the Third Order of Saint Francis (b. 1370)
- November 17 – Euphemia of Münsterberg, German sovereign (b. 1385){{Cite web|url=http://genealogy.euweb.cz/oett/oett1.html#F3|title=Oettingen 1|website=genealogy.euweb.cz|access-date=2020-04-06}}
- November 21 – Biagio Molino, Roman Catholic patriarch (b. 1380)
- December – Vlad II Dracul, Prince of Wallachia, and his son Mircea II{{Cite book|title=Dracula : essays on the life and times of Vlad Țepeș|date=1991|publisher=East European Monographs|editor=Treptow, Kurt W.|isbn=0-88033-220-4|location=Boulder, Colo.|oclc=24689405}}