1445

Events of 1445 
 Dinas Diaz discovers Senegal and Cape Verde.
 Emperor Zara Yaqob of Ethiopia defeats and kills Sultan Arwe Badlay of Adal in the Battle of Gomit.

 Births 
 March 1 – Sandro Botticelli, Italian painter (died 1510) (born 1444 or 1445)
 March 16 – Johann Geiler von Kaisersberg, Swiss preacher (died 1510)
 Albert Brudzewski, Polish astronomer (died 1497)
 Nicolas Chuquet, French mathematician (probable)

 Deaths 
February 19 – Leonor of Aragon, Queen of Portugal
June 5 – Leonel Power, English composer
June 11 – Henry de Beauchamp, 1st Duke of Warwick (born 1424)
July 15 – Joan Beaufort, Queen of Scotland
August 8 – Oswald von Wolkenstein, Austrian composer (born 1377)
Olug Moxammat, Khan of Kazan