Years: 1442 1443 1444 - 1445 - 1446 1447 1448

Decades: 1410s 1420s 1430s - 1440s - 1450s 1460s 1470s

Centuries: 14th century - 15th century - 16th century

Events

• Discovery of Senegal and Cape Verde by Dinas Diaz

Births

• March 1 - Sandro Botticelli, Italian painter (d. 1510)
• Philippe Desportes
• Johann Geiler von Kaisersberg
• Johann von Dalberg
• Albert Brudzewski
• Giuloano di Sangallo
• Comines
• Hayne van Ghizeghem, Flemish-Burgundian composer
• Gaspar van Weerbeke, Franco-Flemish composer

Deaths

• Oswald von Wolkenstein, Tyrolian composer, poet, diplomat, traveler
• Henry, 4th Earl of Warwick
• Leonel Power, English composer
• Olug Moxammat, khan of Kazan Khanate