1445

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

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

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
Balinese saka calendar	1366–1367
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 (Wood Rat) 4141 or 4081     — to — 乙丑年 (Wood Ox) 4142 or 4082
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

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