What is 1446?
{{Year nav|1446}} {{Year in various calendars|1446}} {{Year article header|1446}} == Events of 1446 == * [[Portugal|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 Verme]][[siege|besiege]] [[Cremona]], [[Italy]]. * The ''[[Hunmin Jeongeum]]''is published in Korea, starting the [[Hangul]] alphabet. * [[Mehmed II]], [[Sultan]] of the [[Ottoman Empire]], [[abdicate]]s. 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]]) [[Category:1446| ]]