1447

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

January–December

 * March 6 – Pope Nicholas V succeeds Pope Eugene IV, to become the 208th pope.
 * March 16 – A major fire destroys the centre of Valencia.
 * September 15 – Roman II seizes the throne of Moldavia after killing his uncle, Stephen II, and will have his other uncle, Petru as co-ruler.
 * 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 1447–48 begins.

Date unknown

 * The Siege of Soest, Germany, occurs, in the course of the Soest Feud.
 * Tashi Lhunpo Monastery is founded by the 1st Dalai Lama at its original location in Shigatse, Tibet.
 * Iizasa Ienao founds Tenshin Shōden Katori Shintō-ryū, the earliest historically verifiable Japanese koryū martial art, that will still be extant in modern times.

Births

 * February 1 – Eberhard II, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1504)
 * February 4 – Lodovico Lazzarelli, Italian poet (d. 1500)
 * April 5 – Catherine of Genoa, Italian author and nurse (d. 1510)
 * April 17 – Baptista Mantuanus, poet and carmelite (d. 1516)
 * June 27 – Jean IV de Rieux, Breton noble and Marshal (d. 1518)
 * July 5 – Costanzo I Sforza, Italian noble (d. 1483)
 * September 10 – Paolo da San Leocadio, Italian painter in Spain (d. 1520)
 * October 30 – Lucas Watzenrode, Prince-Bishop of Warmia (d. 1512)
 * December 3 – Bayezid II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1512)
 * December 9 – Chenghua Emperor of China (d. 1487)
 * December 15 – Albert IV, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1508)
 * date unknown
 * Piero Capponi, Italian soldier and statesman (d. 1496)
 * Philippe de Commines, Flemish historian (d. 1511)
 * Catherine of Genoa, Catholic mystic (d. 1510)
 * probable
 * Giovanni Antonio Amadeo, Italian sculptor (d. 1522)

Deaths

 * February 23
 * Pope Eugene IV (b. 1383)
 * Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (b. 1390)
 * March 6 – Colette of Corbie, French abbess and saint in the Catholic Church (b. 1381)
 * March 13 – Shahrukh Mirza, ruler of Persia and Transoxonia (b. 1377)
 * March 31 – Robert Long, English politician (b. 1390)
 * April 11 – Henry Beaufort, Cardinal, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1377)
 * April 22 – Yaqub al-Charkhi, Sufism (b. 1359)
 * May 1 – Louis VII, Duke of Bavaria-Ingolstadt (b. 1368)
 * May 12 – Hein Hoyer, German politician (b. 1380)
 * July 6 – António Martins de Chaves, Catholic cardinal (b. 1390)
 * July 9 – Gruffudd Vychan, Welsh knight (b. 1390)
 * July 13 – Stephen II of Moldavia, Prince of Moldavia (b. 1410)
 * August 5 – John Holland, 2nd Duke of Exeter, English nobleman and military commander (b. 1395)
 * August 9 – Konrad IV the Elder, Polish priest (b. 1380)
 * August 13 – Filippo Maria Visconti, Duke of Milan (b. 1392)
 * October 31 – Tommaso Bellacci, Italian Roman Catholic professed member of the Third Order of Saint Francis (b. 1370)
 * November 17 – Euphemia of Münsterberg, German sovereign (b. 1385)
 * November 21 – Biagio Molino, Roman Catholic patriarch (b. 1380)
 * December – Vlad II Dracul, Prince of Wallachia, and his son Mircea II