- 1448
Year 1448 was a
leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of theJulian calendar .Events of 1448
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January 5 /6 -Christopher of Bavaria ,King of Denmark , Norway and Sweden dies with no designated heir, leaving all three kingdoms with vacant thrones. BrothersBengt Jönsson Oxenstierna andNils Jönsson Oxenstierna are selected to serve as co-regents of Sweden.
*June 20 - The Regency period ofSweden ends with the election of Karl Knutsson Bonde as KingCharles VIII of Sweden .
*June 28 -Charles VIII of Sweden is publicly hailed as king at Mora Stones.
*September 28 - Christian of Oldenburg, betrothed toQueen Dowager Dorothea of Brandenburg , becomes KingChristian I of Denmark .
*October 17 - Battle of Kosovo: Hungarian forces underJohn Hunyadi are defeated by the Turks due to the treachery of Prince Dan ofWallachia andGeorge Brankovic ofSerbia .
*Queens' College, Cambridge is founded byMargaret of Anjou .
* TheVatican Library is founded byPope Nicholas V .
*Vlad III the Impaler becomes reigning Prince ofWallachia for two months before being deposed byVladislav II .
* After a long episode of drought, flood,locust infestation, and famine inMing Dynasty China since the year1434 , these natural afflictions finally wane and agriculture and commerce return to a state of normalcy.Births
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November 4 - KingAlphonso II of Naples (d.1495 )
*"date unknown"
**Baeda Maryam of Ethiopia (d.1478 )
**Nicholas I, Duke of Lorraine (d.1473 )Deaths
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January 6 -Christopher of Bavaria ,King of Denmark , Norway and Sweden (b.1418 )
*September 23 -Adolph I, Duke of Cleves (b.1373 )
*October 31 -John VIII Palaeologus ,Byzantine Emperor (b.1390 )
*"date unknown" -Zhu Quan, Prince of Ning , Chinese general (b.1391 )
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