1448

1448 (MCDXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1448th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 448th year of the 2nd millennium, the 48th year of the 15th century, and the 9th year of the 1440s decade. As of the start of 1448, the Gregorian calendar was 9 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

1448 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1448 MCDXLVIII
Ab urbe condita	2201
Armenian calendar	897 ԹՎ ՊՂԷ
Assyrian calendar	6198
Balinese saka calendar	1369–1370
Bengali calendar	855
Berber calendar	2398
English Regnal year	26 Hen. 6 – 27 Hen. 6
Buddhist calendar	1992
Burmese calendar	810
Byzantine calendar	6956–6957
Chinese calendar	丁卯年 (Fire Rabbit) 4144 or 4084     — to — 戊辰年 (Earth Dragon) 4145 or 4085
Coptic calendar	1164–1165
Discordian calendar	2614
Ethiopian calendar	1440–1441
Hebrew calendar	5208–5209
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1504–1505
- Shaka Samvat	1369–1370
- Kali Yuga	4548–4549
Holocene calendar	11448
Igbo calendar	448–449
Iranian calendar	826–827
Islamic calendar	851–852
Japanese calendar	Bun'an 5 (文安５年)
Javanese calendar	1363–1364
Julian calendar	1448 MCDXLVIII
Korean calendar	3781
Minguo calendar	464 before ROC 民前464年
Nanakshahi calendar	−20
Thai solar calendar	1990–1991
Tibetan calendar	མེ་མོ་ཡོས་ལོ་ (female Fire-Hare) 1574 or 1193 or 421     — to — ས་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་ (male Earth-Dragon) 1575 or 1194 or 422

Events of 1448

• January 5/ 6 – Christopher of Bavaria, King of Denmark, Norway and Sweden dies with no designated heir, leaving all three kingdoms with vacant thrones. Brothers Bengt Jönsson Oxenstierna and Nils Jönsson Oxenstierna are selected to serve as co-regents of Sweden.
• June 20 – The Regency period of Sweden ends with the election of Karl Knutsson Bonde as King Charles VIII of Sweden.
• June 28 – Charles VIII of Sweden is publicly hailed as king at Mora Stones.
• September 28 – Christian of Oldenburg, betrothed to Queen Dowager Dorothea of Brandenburg, becomes King Christian I of Denmark.
• October 17 – Battle of Kosovo – Hungarian forces under John Hunyadi are defeated by the Turks due to the treachery of Prince Dan of Wallachia and George Brankovic of Serbia.
• Queens' College, Cambridge founded by Margaret of Anjou.
• Vatican Library founded by Pope Nicholas V.
• Vlad III the Impaler becomes reigning Prince of Wallachia for two months before being deposed by Vladislav II.
• After a long episode of drought, flood, locust infestation, and famine in Ming Dynasty China since the year 1434, these natural afflicitions finally wane and agriculture and commerce return to a state of normalcy.

Births

• November 4 – King Alphonso II of Naples (died 1495)
• date unknown
  • Baeda Maryam of Ethiopia (died 1478)
  • Nicholas I, Duke of Lorraine (died 1473)

Deaths

• January 6 – Christopher of Bavaria, King of Denmark, Norway and Sweden (born 1418)
• September 23 – Adolph I, Duke of Cleves (born 1373)
• October 31 – John VIII Palaeologus, Byzantine Emperor (born 1390)
• date unknown – Zhu Quan, Prince of Ning, Chinese general (born 1391)