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1445

Year 1445 was a Common Year Starting On Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian Calendar .

EVENTS OF 1445

Discovery of Senegal and Cape Verde by Dinas Diaz

Emperor Zara Yaqob of Ethiopia defeats and kills Sultan Arwe Badlay of Adal in the Battle Of Gomit .

BIRTHS

March 1 - Sandro Botticelli , Italian painter (died 1510 )

March 16 - Johann Geiler Von Kaisersberg , Swiss-born preacher (died 1510 )

''date unknown'' - Albert Brudzewski , Polish astronomer (died 1497 )

''probable'' - Nicolas Chuquet , French mathematician

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 )

''date unknown'' - Olug Moxammat Of Kazan , Khan of Kazan