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Calendar year

Millennium:  | 2nd millennium

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Centuries:  |

* 14th century
* 15th century
* 16th century

Decades:  |

* 1420s
* 1430s
* 1440s
* 1450s
* 1460s

Years:  |

* 1442
* 1443
* 1444
* 1445
* 1446
* 1447
* 1448

1445 by topic

Arts and science

* Architecture
* Art

Leaders

* Political entities
* State leaders
* Religious leaders

Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments – Disestablishments
Art and literature
1445 in poetry

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1445 in various calendarsGregorian calendar| 1445
MCDXLV

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Ab urbe condita| 2198
Armenian calendar| 894
ԹՎ ՊՂԴ
Assyrian calendar| 6195
Balinese saka calendar| 1366–1367
Bengali calendar| 851–852
Berber calendar| 2395
English Regnal year| 23 Hen. 6 – 24 Hen. 6
Buddhist calendar| 1989
Burmese calendar| 807
Byzantine calendar| 6953–6954
Chinese calendar| 甲子年 (Wood Rat)
4142 or 3935
— to —
乙丑年 (Wood Ox)
4143 or 3936
Coptic calendar| 1161–1162
Discordian calendar| 2611
Ethiopian calendar| 1437–1438
Hebrew calendar| 5205–5206
Hindu calendars|
\- Vikram Samvat| 1501–1502
\- Shaka Samvat| 1366–1367
\- Kali Yuga| 4545–4546
Holocene calendar| 11445
Igbo calendar| 445–446
Iranian calendar| 823–824
Islamic calendar| 848–849
Japanese calendar| Bun'an 2
(文安２年)
Javanese calendar| 1360–1361
Julian calendar| 1445
MCDXLV
Korean calendar| 3778
Minguo calendar| 467 before ROC
民前467年
Nanakshahi calendar| −23
Thai solar calendar| 1987–1988
Tibetan calendar| 阳木鼠年
(male Wood-Rat)
1571 or 1190 or 418
— to —
阴木牛年
(female Wood-Ox)
1572 or 1191 or 419

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

## Events

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### January-December

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* April - Henry VI of England marries Margaret of Anjou.[1]
* October 10 - Battle of Mokra: The Albanian forces under Skanderbeg defeat the Ottoman forces (Pope Eugene IV raises a hymn of praise, that Christendom has been provided with a new defender, after he hears of the battle).[1]

### Date unknown

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* The Portuguese set up their first trading post (Feitoria) in Africa, on the island of Arguin.
* Portuguese explorer Dinis Dias discovers the Cap-Vert, on the western coast of Africa.
* Battle of Gomit: Emperor Zara Yaqob of Ethiopia defeats and kills Sultan Arwe Badlay, of Adal.
* Vlad II Dracul, aided by a crusaders' fleet from Burgundy, attacks Giurgiu, and massacres the Ottoman garrison after their surrender.
* Stephen II remains sole ruler of Moldavia.

## Births

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* 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)[2]

## Deaths

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* January 19 - Antonio Correr, Venetian cardinal (b. 1359)[3]
* February 19 - Leonor of Aragon, queen of Portugal (b. 1402)
* April 7 - Louis VIII, Duke of Bavaria, German noble (b. 1403)
* May 15 - Johanna van Polanen, Dutch noblewoman (b. 1392)
* June 5 - Leonel Power, English composer
* July 15 - Joan Beaufort, Queen of Scotland[4]
* August 2 - Oswald von Wolkenstein, Austrian composer (b. 1377)
* date unknown - Olug Moxammat of Kazan, Khan of Kazan

## References

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1. ^ Wendy Sacket (1997). Chronology of European History, 15,000 B.C. to 1997: 15,000 B.C. to 1469. Salem Press. p. 442\. ISBN 978-0-89356-419-3.
2. ^ Adolfo Venturi (1927). Botticelli. A. Zwemmer. p. 101.
3. ^ Shearman, John (1983). The early Italian pictures in the collection of Her Majesty the Queen. Cambridge University Press. p. 195\. ISBN 978-0-521-24214-1.
4. ^ Norman Macdougall (1982). James III: A Political Study. J. Donald. pp. 10–13\. ISBN 978-0-85976-078-2.10-13&rft.pub=J.+Donald&rft.date=1982&rft.isbn=978-0-85976-078-2&rft.au=Norman+Macdougall&rft_id=https://books.google.com/books?id=VY5nAAAAMAAJ&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:1445" class="Z3988">

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