1446

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1410s  1420s  1430s  – 1440s –  1450s  1460s  1470s
Years:	1443 1444 1445 – 1446 – 1447 1448 1449

1446 by topic
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Architecture - Art
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1446 in poetry

1446 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1446 MCDXLVI
Ab urbe condita	2199
Armenian calendar	895 ԹՎ ՊՂԵ
Assyrian calendar	6196
Bengali calendar	853
Berber calendar	2396
English Regnal year	24 Hen. 6 – 25 Hen. 6
Buddhist calendar	1990
Burmese calendar	808
Byzantine calendar	6954–6955
Chinese calendar	乙丑年 (Wood Ox) 4142 or 4082     — to — 丙寅年 (Fire Tiger) 4143 or 4083
Coptic calendar	1162–1163
Discordian calendar	2612
Ethiopian calendar	1438–1439
Hebrew calendar	5206–5207
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1502–1503
- Shaka Samvat	1368–1369
- Kali Yuga	4547–4548
Holocene calendar	11446
Igbo calendar	446–447
Iranian calendar	824–825
Islamic calendar	849–850
Japanese calendar	Bun'an 3 (文安３年)
Julian calendar	1446 MCDXLVI
Korean calendar	3779
Minguo calendar	466 before ROC 民前466年
Thai solar calendar	1988–1989

Year 1446 (MCDXLVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

• September 27 – The Battle of Otonetë. Skanderbeg defeats the Ottomans.
• Before October – Sultan Mehmed II of the Ottoman Empire is forced to abdicate in favor of his father Murad II by the Janissaries.
• October – Murad II invades Attica, forcing Constantine XI to return Thebes to the duchy of Athens and remove the tribute imposed in 1444. Murad II imposes his own tribute.
• October 9 – The hangul alphabet is created in Korea by King Sejong the Great of Joseon. The Hunmin Jeongeum published during the year is considered the start of this brand new scientific writing system.
• December 10 – After hesitating for several weeks, Murad II, sultan of the Ottoman Empire, destroys the Hexamilion wall in an assault that includes cannons. Murad and the Ottoman governor of Thessaly, Turakhan Beg ravage the Peloponnese peninsula at will, with the Sultan devastating the northern shore until Glarentza and Turakhan raiding in the interior. The Despotate of the Morea is turned into an Ottoman vassal state.^[1]

Date unknown

• Nuno Tristão is killed by natives in the coast of Senegal.
• Portuguese navigator Álvaro Fernandes reaches the mouth of the Casamance River in Senegal.
• The Precious Belt Bridge in China is fully reconstructed.
• In Italy, the siege of Cremona by the condottieri troops of Francesco Piccinino and Luigi dal Verme is raised after the arrival of Scaramuccia da Forlì.
• The Blarney Stone is set into a tower of Blarney Castle in Blarney, County Cork in Ireland.

Births

• April 18 – Ippolita Maria Sforza, Italian noble (d. 1484)
• May 3
  • Frederick I of Liegnitz, Duke of Chojnów and Strzelin from 1453 (d. 1488)
  • Margaret of York, wife of Charles the Bold (d. 1503)
• August 14 – Andrey Bolshoy, Russian royal (d. 1493)
• December 26 – Charles de Valois, Duke de Berry, French noble (d. 1472)
• date unknown – Edmund de Ros, 10th Baron de Ros, English politician (d. 1508)
• probable
  • Alexander Agricola, Flemish composer (d. 1506)
  • William Grocyn, English scholar (d. 1519)
  • Pietro Perugino, Italian painter (d. 1524)
  • Christopher Columbus, Italian explorer (d. 1506)

Deaths

• April 15 – Filippo Brunelleschi, Italian architect (b. 1377)
• May 9 – Mary of Enghien, Queen of Naples (b. 1367)
• May 24 – Ambroise de Loré, Baron of Ivry (b. 1396)
• June 11 – Henry de Beauchamp, 1st Duke of Warwick (b. 1425)
• December 28 – Antipope Clement VIII
• February 2 – Vittorino da Feltre, Italian humanist (b. 1378)
• date unknown – Nuno Tristão, Portuguese explorer

References

1. Setton, Kenneth M. (1978), The Papacy and the Levant (1204–1571), Volume II: The Fifteenth Century, DIANE Publishing, pp. 96–97, ISBN 0-87169-127-2