1445

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Year 1445 was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1445

• Senegal and Cape Verde are discovered by Dinas Diaz.
• Battle of Gomit: Emperor Zara Yaqob of Ethiopia defeats and kills Sultan Arwe Badlay of Adal.

Births

• March 1 - Sandro Botticelli, Italian painter (d. 1510)
• March 16 - Johann Geiler von Kaisersberg, Swiss-born preacher (d. 1510)
• date unknown - Albert Brudzewski, Polish astronomer (d. 1497)
• probable - Nicolas Chuquet, French mathematician

Deaths

• February 19 - Leonor of Aragon, queen of Portugal
• June 5 - Leonel Power, English composer
• June 11 - Henry de Beauchamp, 1st Duke of Warwick (b. 1424)
• July 15 - Joan Beaufort, Queen of Scotland
• August 8 - Oswald von Wolkenstein, Austrian composer (b. 1377)
• date unknown - Olug Moxammat of Kazan, Khan of Kazan

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