Events of 1445

• Senegal and Cape Verde are discovered by Dinas Diaz.

• Battle of Gomit: Emperor Zara Yaqob of Ethiopia defeats and kills Sultan Arwe Badlay of Adal.

Births

• March 1 – Sandro Botticelli, Italian painter (d. 1510)

• March 16 – Johann Geiler von Kaisersberg, Swiss-born preacher (d. 1510)

• date unknown – Albert Brudzewski, Polish astronomer (d. 1497)

• probable – Nicolas Chuquet, French mathematician

Deaths

• February 19 – Leonor of Aragon, queen of Portugal

• June 5 – Leonel Power, English composer

• June 11 – Henry de Beauchamp, 1st Duke of Warwick (b. 1424)

• July 15 – Joan Beaufort, Queen of Scotland

• August 8 – Oswald von Wolkenstein, Austrian composer (b. 1377)

• date unknown – Olug Moxammat of Kazan, Khan of Kazan