What is 1447?
{{Year nav|1447}} {{Year in various calendars|1447}} {{Year article header|1447}} == Events of 1447 == *[[March 6]] – [[Pope Nicholas V]] succeeds [[Pope Eugene IV]] as the 208th [[pope]]. *December – [[Vlad II Dracul]], ruler of [[Wallachia]] and his eldest son [[Mircea]] are assassinated. [[Vladislav II]] succeeds him with the assistance of [[John Hunyadi]]. == Births == *[[December 9]] – [[Chenghua Emperor]] of China (died [[1487]]) *''date unknown'' **[[Piero Capponi]], Italian soldier. (died [[1496]]) **[[Philippe de Commines]], Flemish historian (died [[1511]]) **[[Catherine of Genoa]], woman mystic (died [[1510]]) *[[Giovanni Antonio Amadeo]], Italian [[sculptor]] (died [[1522]]) *[[Bayezid II]], [[Ottoman Sultan]] (died [[1512]]) == Deaths == *[[February 23]] **[[Pope Eugene IV]] (born [[1383]]) **[[Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester]] (born [[1390]]) *[[March 12]] – [[Shah Rukh (Timurid dynasty)|Shah Rukh]], ruler of Persia and Transoxonia (born [[1377]]) *[[April 11]] – [[Henry Cardinal Beaufort]], Lord Chancellor of England (born [[1377]]) *[[August 13]] – [[Filippo Maria Visconti]], Duke of Milan (born [[1392]]) *December – [[Vlad II Dracul]], Prince of Wallachia *''date unknown'' **[[John Holland, 2nd Duke of Exeter]] (born [[1395]]) [[Category:1447]]