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{{C15 year in topic}}Year 1447 (MCDXLVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar.

Events

= January–March =

  • January 4 – Barnaba Adorno becomes the new Doge of the Republic of Genoa when his cousin Raffaele Adorno steps down after slightly less than four years in office. Baranaba holds the office for only a few weeks before being forced by the Adorno family's rivals, the Campofregoso family to flee the Doge's Palace on January 29.{{cite book|first=Sergio|last=Buonadonna|author2=Mario Mercenaro |title=Rosso doge. I dogi della Repubblica di Genova dal 1339 al 1797|year=2007|editor=De Ferrari Editori|location=Genova}}
  • January 30 – Giano di Campofregoso is elected as the new Doge of Genoa the day after his family forces Barnaba Adorno out of the city.
  • February 11 – The English Parliament is opened by King Henry VI for a three week session that closes on March 3.
  • February 20 – Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, uncle and heir apparent of King Henry VI of England, is arrested on a charge of treason. He dies from a stroke three days later while imprisoned at Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk.{{cite book |last=Vickers |first=Kenneth |title=Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester: A Biography |publisher=Archibald Constable |place=London |date=1907 |page=293 |lccn=09008417 |oclc=1211527 |author-link=Kenneth Hotham Vickers |url=https://archive.org/details/humphreydukeglo00vickgoog }} Richard of York becomes next in line for the throne.
  • February 23 – Pope Eugene IV, leader of the Roman Catholic Church since 1431, dies shortly after issuing his last papal bulls.
  • February 27 – Vasily II returns as Grand Prince of Moscow after being recalled from exile by Dmitry Shemyaka, who had blinded him the year before. Shemyaka still attempts to control the Principality of Moscow.
  • March 4 – The papal conclave opens at the Santa Maria sopra Minerva in Rome with 18 of the 24 living members of the College of Cardinals arriving to select a new Popel With 12 votes necessary for the require two-thirds needed for an election, Cardinal Prospero Colonna receives 10 and Cardinal Domenico Capranica gets 8.Thomas M. Izbicki, 2007, "The politics of a conclave: the papal election of 1447." Cristianesimo nella storia, pp. 277-284John P. Adams, [https://www.csun.edu/~hcfll004/SV1447.html "Sede Vacante 1447"]. California State University Northridge. 2016.
  • March 6 – On the fourth vote of the papal conclave, Prospero Colonna is still unable to gain more than 10 votes, and Cardinal Capranica addresses the group, warning that Rome would be under attack from the King of Aragon. At the intervention of Cardinal Giovanni Berardi, the cardinals begin voting for a compromise candidate, Tommaso Parentucelli, who wins 12 votes. Parentucelli then takes the regnal name of Pope Nicholas V, the 208th Bishop of Rome and Pope.T. Adolphus Trollope, [https://books.google.com/books/download/The_papal_conclaves__as_they_were_and_as.pdf?id=wyU3AAAAMAAJ&output=pdf&sig=ACfU3U1WKSZOUejQuL3GbgPLWh6RnygQeg&source=gbs_v2_summary_r&cad=0 The Papal Conclaves, as They Were and as They Are] (London: Chapman and Hall, 1876) pp. 140-141
  • March 13 – At Herat, Ulugh Beg (born Mirza Muhammad Taraghay) becomes the new ruler of the Timurid Empire upon the death of his father Sharukh Mirza, who had reigned for 42 years.{{cite book |last1=Jackson |first1=Peter|author-link1=Peter Jackson (historian) |last2=Lockhart |first2=Lawrence|title=The Cambridge History of Iran |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fY01Tc2SZVEC&pg=PA100 |volume=VI |year=1986 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-20094-3 |page=103}} The Empire is in decline but still controls most of what is now Afghanistan as well as parts of Iraq and Pakistan.
  • March 16 – A major fire destroys the centre of Valencia.
  • March 19 – The coronation of Tommaso Parentucelli as Pope Nicholas V takes place in Rome. The crown is placed upon his head by Cardinal Prospero Colonna, who had come within two votes of being selected as the Pope on March 5.
  • March 26 – Dmitry Shemyaka flees Moscow from the supporters of Vasily II.
  • Franzes I, Duke of Brittany, reverses the policy of his father, the late Duke Yann the Wise and allows the Caquin minority to have certain rights of trade within specified areas in the bishoporic of Vannes.{{cite web |language=fr |title=Caquins et Caquineries dans l’ancien diocèse de Saint-Brieuc |trans-title=Caquins and Caquineries in the former diocese of Saint-Brieuc |url=http://eric.havel.free.fr/caquins/caquins.htm |website=Le site de Michel Chevalier, bibliothécaire de la Société d'Émulation des Côtes d'Armor |access-date=31 January 2015}}

= April – June =

  • April 20 – Abdal-Latif Mirza, son of the recently-crowned Timurid Emperor Ulugh Beg, is defeated in battle at Nishapur by his cousin Ala al-Dawla Mirza, another claimant to the Timurid throne, shortly after Abdal-Latif had captured the city of Damghan and al-Dawla had conquered Mashad.[https://www.google.com/books/edition/Four_Studies_on_the_History_of_Central_A/6joeEQAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=nishapur+April+1447&pg=PA147&printsec=frontcover "Ulugh Beg"], Volume II of Four Studies on the History of Central Asia, by V. V. Barthold (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1958) p.147
  • April 22 – (5 Safar 851 AH) Khwaja Ubaidullah Ahrar becomes the new leader of the tariqa (order) of Süleymancılar among adherents of Sufism in what is now Turkey.Moshe Gammer, Muslim Resistance to the Tsar: Shamil and the Conquest of Chechnia and Daghestan (Portland OR: Frank Cass, 1994)
  • May 6 – In a royal wedding at Lisbon, King Afonso V of Portugal is married to his first cousin, Princess Isabel of Coimbra, when both of them are 15 years old. Isabel is the daughter of Afonso's uncle, Dom Pedro, Duke of Coimbra, who continues to serve as the regent for King Afonso.{{cite book |title=The Travels of the Infante Dom Pedro of Portugal |first=Francis M. |last=Rogers |year=1961 |location=Cambridge |publisher=Harvard University Press |series=Harvard Studies in Romance Languages |volume=XXVI|page=59}}
  • June 25 – Kazimieras Jogailaitis, Grand Duke of Lithuania since 1440, is crowned King of Poland as Casimir IV Jagiellon, bringing an end to an interregnum that had existed since 1444 when Casimir's brother King Wladyslaw III had left Poland to fight in a Crusade against the Ottoman Turks.{{cite book |last1=Frost |first1=Robert |title=The Making of the Polish-Lithuanian Union 1385–1569, Volume 1 |date=2015 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |page=327 |isbn=978-0-19-101787-2}}

= July – September =

= October – December =

  • October 11 – In the Battle of Bosco Marengo in Italy, the army the Ambrosian Republic of Milan defeats the 3,000-member force of the Duchy of Orléans, killing half of their troops while losing only 500 of its 3,700 men.{{cite book|title= Le grand dictionnaire historique, ou Le mélange curieux de l'histoire sacrée et profane (The Great Historical Dictionary, or The Curious Mixture of Sacred and Profane History): Vol.3 |url= https://archive.org/details/MoreriGdDictHist09bnf.pdf |first=Louis |last=Moreri |year=1759 |place=Paris}}
  • November 16 – In the War of the Milanese Succession, Francesco Sforza, leader of the forces of the Ambrosian Republic of Milan, overwhelms the city of Piacenza after a siege that began on October 1. According to a contemporary account, Piacenza "endured every evil" from the Milanese over the next 50 days. Cristoforo da Soldo comments that "as for the ravaging of the land that was plundered, it would take a great pile of paper to write down the many cruelties. All the chuchese were robbed.. virgins, married women, widows, and nuns, all of them were shamed, abused and wrongly molested."Diana Robin, Filelfo in Milan: Writings 1451-1477 (Princeton University Press, 2014) p.65
  • December 7 –Vlad II Dracul, ruler of Wallachia, and his eldest son Mircea are assassinated outside of Bucharest.Constantin Rezachevici, Cronologia critică a domnilor din Țara Românească și Moldova a. 1324 – 1881 (Critical Chronology of the Lords of Wallachia and Moldavia 1324 – 1881) (Bucharest: Editura Enciclopedică, 2001) Vladislav II succeeds him, with the assistance of John Hunyadi, beginning the Albanian–Venetian War.
  • December 16 – Lodovico di Campofregoso becomes the Doge of the Republic of Genoa, succeeding his older brother, Giano I, who had taken office "for life

= Date unknown =

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References

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  • New Advent. (2020). 'Pope Nicholas V'. Retrieved from http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11058a.htm
  • https://www.hisdates.com/years/1447-historical-events.html
  • https://www.onthisday.com/date/1447

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