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Year '1447' was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Events of 1447

Births

Deaths

Events of 1447

★ March 6 - Pope Nicholas V succeeds Pope Eugene IV as the 208th pope.

★ December - Vlad II Dracul, ruler of Wallachia and his eldest son Mircea are assassinated. Vladislav II succeeds him with the assistance of John Hunyadi.

★ According to ''ryū's own sources, Iizasa Ienao founds Tenshin Shoden Katori Shinto-ryu, the earliest historically verifiable Japanese ''koryū'' martial art that is still extant today.

Births

★ December 9 - Chenghua Emperor of China (died 1487)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Piero Capponi, Italian soldier and statesman (died 1496)

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★ Philippe de Commines, Flemish historian (died 1511)

★ ''probable''

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★ Giovanni Antonio Amadeo, Italian sculptor (died 1522)

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★ Bayezid II, Ottoman Sultan (died 1512)

Deaths

★ February 23

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★ Pope Eugene IV (born 1383)

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★ Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (born 1390)

★ March 12 - Shah Rukh, ruler of Persia and Transoxonia (born 1377)

★ April 11 - Henry Cardinal Beaufort, Lord Chancellor of England (born 1377)

★ August 13 - Filippo Maria Visconti, Duke of Milan (born 1392)

★ December - Vlad II Dracul, Prince of Wallachia

★ ''date unknown'' - John Holland, 2nd Duke of Exeter (born 1395)