1448

This page relates to the year 1448 Calendrier Julien.

Events

China: A rising with the Fujian and the Zhejiang shows a million dead (end in 1449).

March 16th: Resumption of the Mans by the French on the English. Campaign of Brittany and Normandy in 1448-1449.
February 17th: Legal settlement of Vienna, known as Germanic legal settlement, between the Austria and the Church (election of the bénéficiers by the cathédraux and abbey chapters, confirmation by the pope). He restores with the pope all the rights which removed to him the Concile of Basle and causes the indignation of the German clerks who think of having been private their traditional freedoms.

June 20th: Beginning of the reign of Charles VIII Knutsson (1409 - 1470), elected king of Sweden.
July: The Concile of Basle is transported to Lausanne.

September 28th: Beginning of the reign of Christian Ier d' Oldenbourg (1426 - 1481), elected king of Denmark to Viborg. A new dynasty reigns on Denmark.
October 18th: François Sforza concluded a pact with Venice against the Republic Ambrosienne.

February 23rd: The prince of Moldavie Roman II Muşat is reversed by Pierre II Muşat.
Mars: Jean Hunyadi enters in Moldavie where it restores on the throne the prince Pierre II of Moldavie (end in October 1448). This one yields to him in exchange the fortress of Kilia to the mouth of the Danube.

June 29th: After the failure of a knack on Constantinople, the fleet of the sultan Murat II puts the seat in front of Kilia, but is pushed back by the Hungarians who set fire to the boats.

September 20th, Bohemia: The chief of the utraquists Georges de Podiebrady east elected regent of the kingdom by the joined together diet with Kutná Hora. He drives out Prague Ulrich de Rozmberk what causes the escape of the catholic authorities.

September: Jean Hunyadi and its crusaders passes the the Danube and enters in Serbia.

18 - October 19th: Murat II overcomes the crusaders of Jean Hunyadi at the second Bataille of Kosovo (Kosovopolje). The Serbia is definitively occupied. Hunyadi is made prisoner by the Serb despot Georges Brankovic, which releases it against a ransom of 100 000 guilders, restitution of its fields confiscated in Hungary and engagement of the oldest son of Jean Hunyadi, Lázló, with Elisabeth, girl of Catherine Brankovic and Ulrich de Cillei.

October 31st: Constantin XI Paleologist Dragasès, despot of Morée, is proclaimed Byzantine emperor with died of his/her brother Jean VIII Paleologist and crowned with Mistra in 1449. With the head of a failing empire, it in vain tries to obtain from the assistance of the Occident (fine in 1453).

October: Vlad Empaleur, wire of Vlad Dracul, supported by the Othoman , seizes the throne of Valachie from October at November. To the return of Kosovo of Vladislav II of Valachie, it must leave in exile in Moldavie then in Hungary (fine in 1456).

Vassili II, supported by Mongolian princes Kazim and Iakoub takes again Moscow with Dimitri Chemyaka.

the orthodoxe Russian Church is proclaimed independent of Constantinople and chooses itself its own patriarch, Jonas, bishop of Riazan. Beginning, de facto, of the autocéphalie of the Russian Church.

Foundation of the Magdalen College with Oxford.
Foundation of the Queens' College (Cambridge).
the painter Jean Fouquet settles with Tours and works for Charles VII, then for Etienne Chevalier, the treasurer of the king, before serving Louis XI.

Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, France: " invention" , i.e. discovered Relique S of the Saintes Marry Jacobé and Salome.

the Venetian cartographer Andrea Bianco, established with London, draws a nautical chart reproducing the Portuguese projections until the Cap Verde and with the course Rouge. It outlines in the west of Madeira a badly identified island which corresponds to the east coast of the Brésil.

January 6th: Christophe III of Denmark to Helsingborg. It does not leave a heir.
April 23rd: Ilie Ier de Moldavie
October 31st: Jean VIII Paleologist, Byzantine Emperor.

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