1447
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 14th century – 15th century – 16th century |
| Decades: | 1410s 1420s 1430s – 1440s – 1450s 1460s 1470s |
| Years: | 1444 1445 1446 – 1447 – 1448 1449 1450 |
| 1447 by topic |
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| State leaders - Sovereign states |
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| 1447 in poetry |
| Gregorian calendar | 1447 MCDXLVII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2200 |
| Armenian calendar | 896 ԹՎ ՊՂԶ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6197 |
| Bengali calendar | 854 |
| Berber calendar | 2397 |
| English Regnal year | 25 Hen. 6 – 26 Hen. 6 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1991 |
| Burmese calendar | 809 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6955–6956 |
| Chinese calendar | 丙寅年 (Fire Tiger) 4143 or 4083 — to — 丁卯年 (Fire Rabbit) 4144 or 4084 |
| Coptic calendar | 1163–1164 |
| Discordian calendar | 2613 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1439–1440 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5207–5208 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1503–1504 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1369–1370 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4548–4549 |
| Holocene calendar | 11447 |
| Igbo calendar | 447–448 |
| Iranian calendar | 825–826 |
| Islamic calendar | 850–851 |
| Japanese calendar | Bunnan 4 (文安４年) |
| Julian calendar | 1447 MCDXLVII |
| Korean calendar | 3780 |
| Minguo calendar | 465 before ROC 民前465年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1989–1990 |
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Year 1447 (MCDXLVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
- March 6 – Pope Nicholas V succeeds Pope Eugene IV, to become the 208th pope.
- July 15 – The Inquisition is revived in Spain.
- December
- Vlad II Dracul, ruler of Wallachia, and his eldest son Mircea are assassinated. Vladislav II succeeds him with the assistance of John Hunyadi.
- The Albanian-Venetian War of 1447-1448 begins.
Date unknown
- The Siege of Soest in the course of the Soest Feud
- 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 (d. 1487)
- date unknown
- Piero Capponi, Italian soldier and statesman (d. 1496)
- Philippe de Commines, Flemish historian (d. 1511)
- Catherine of Genoa, woman mystic (d. 1510)
- probable
- Giovanni Antonio Amadeo, Italian sculptor (d. 1522)
- Bayezid II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1512)
Deaths
- February 23
- Pope Eugene IV (b. 1383)
- Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (b. 1390)
- March 12 – Shah Rukh, ruler of Persia and Transoxonia (b. 1377)
- April 11 – Henry Beaufort, Cardinal, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1377)
- August 5 – John Holland, 2nd Duke of Exeter (b. 1395)
- August 13 – Filippo Maria Visconti, Duke of Milan (b. 1392)
- December – Vlad II Dracul, Prince of Wallachia