1446

1446 (MCDXLVI) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1446th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 446th year of the 2nd millennium, the 46th year of the 15th century, and the 7th year of the 1440s decade. As of the start of 1446, the Gregorian calendar was 9 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

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 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1446 MCDXLVI
Ab urbe condita	2199
Armenian calendar	895 ԹՎ ՊՂԵ
Assyrian calendar	6196
Balinese saka calendar	1367–1368
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	1367–1368
- Kali Yuga	4546–4547
Holocene calendar	11446
Igbo calendar	446–447
Iranian calendar	824–825
Islamic calendar	849–850
Japanese calendar	Bun'an 3 (文安３年)
Javanese calendar	1361–1362
Julian calendar	1446 MCDXLVI
Korean calendar	3779
Minguo calendar	466 before ROC 民前466年
Nanakshahi calendar	−22
Thai solar calendar	1988–1989
Tibetan calendar	阴木牛年 (female Wood-Ox) 1572 or 1191 or 419     — to — 阳火虎年 (male Fire-Tiger) 1573 or 1192 or 420

Events of 1446

• Portuguese navigator, Álvaro Fernandes, reaches the mouth of the Geba River in Guinea-Bissau.
• The Precious Belt Bridge in China is fully rebuilt.
• The troops of Francesco Piccinino and Luigi dal Vermebesiege Cremona, Italy.
• The Hunmin Jeongeumis published in Korea, starting the Hangul alphabet.
• Mehmed II, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, abdicates. His father, Murad II becomes Sultan.
• December 10 – Murad II destroys the Hexamillion wall, opening the Morea to Ottoman invasion.

Births

• May 3 – Margaret of Burgundy, wife of Charles I, Duke of Burgundy (died 1503)
• Edmund de Ros, 11th Baron de Ros, English politician (died 1508)
• Alexander Agricola, Flemish composer (probable) (died 1506)
• William Grocyn, English scholar (probable) (died 1519)
• Pietro Perugino, Italian painter (probable) (died 1524)

Deaths

• April 15 – Filippo Brunelleschi, Italian architect (born 1377)
• May 9 – Mary of Enghien, Queen of Naples (born 1367)
• May 24 – Ambroise de Loré, Baron of Ivry (born 1396)
• December 28 – Antipope Clement VIII
• Vittorino da Feltre, Italian humanist (born 1378)