1445 facts for kids

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1410s  1420s  1430s  – 1440s –  1450s  1460s  1470s
Years:	1442 1443 1444 – 1445 – 1446 1447 1448

Year 1445 was a common year. It started on a Friday.

Events of 1445

• Dinas Diaz discovers Senegal and Cape Verde.
• Emperor Zara Yaqob of Ethiopia defeats and kills Sultan Arwe Badlay of Adal in the Battle of Gomit.

1445 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1445 MCDXLV
Ab urbe condita	2198
Armenian calendar	894 ԹՎ ՊՂԴ
Assyrian calendar	6195
Bahá'í calendar	-399–-398
Bengali calendar	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	甲子年十一月廿三日 (4081/4141-11-23) — to — 乙丑年十二月初三日 (4082/4142-12-3)
Coptic calendar	1161–1162
Ethiopian calendar	1437–1438
Hebrew calendar	5205–5206
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1501–1502
- Shaka Samvat	1367–1368
- Kali Yuga	4546–4547
Holocene calendar	11445
Iranian calendar	823–824
Islamic calendar	848–849
Japanese calendar	Bunnan 2 (文安2年)
Korean calendar	3778
Minguo calendar	467 before ROC 民前467年
Thai solar calendar	1988

Births

• March 1 – Sandro Botticelli, Italian painter (died 1510) (born 1444 or 1445)
• March 16 – Johann Geiler von Kaisersberg, Swiss preacher (died 1510)
• Albert Brudzewski, Polish astronomer (died 1497)
• Nicolas Chuquet, French mathematician (probable)

Deaths

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