1446

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1410s  1420s  1430s  – 1440s –  1450s  1460s  1470s
Years:	1443 1444 1445 – 1446 – 1447 1448 1449

Year 1446 was a common year starting on a Saturday.

Events of 1446

• 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 Vermebesiege Cremona, Italy.
• The Hunmin Jeongeumis published in Korea, starting the Hangul alphabet.
• Mehmed II, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, abdicates. 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)