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1575 or 1194 or 422. 1448 ( MCDXLVIII ) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1448th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 448th year of the 2nd millennium, the 48th year of the 15th century, and the 9th year of the 1440s decade.
January 6 – Christopher of Bavaria, King of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, dies with no designated heir, leaving all three kingdoms with vacant thrones. Brothers Bengt Jönsson Oxenstierna and Nils Jönsson Oxenstierna are selected to serve as co-regents of Sweden. April 15 – Queens' College, Cambridge is founded by Margaret of Anjou.
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Events. 11 March – Hundred Years' War: England cedes Maine to France. 16 March – Hundred Years' War: peace negotiations break down over the issue of English control over Brittany. 23 October – Scottish victory over the English at the Battle of Sark. Queen Margaret of Anjou founds Queens' College, Cambridge. Earliest known reference to ...
Events of 1448. January 5/ 6 – Christopher of Bavaria, King of Denmark, Norway and Sweden dies with no designated heir, leaving all three kingdoms with vacant thrones. Brothers Bengt Jönsson Oxenstierna and Nils Jönsson Oxenstierna are selected to serve as co-regents of Sweden.
Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg [a] ( c. 1393–1406 – 3 February 1468) was a German inventor and craftsman who invented the movable-type printing press. Though movable type was already in use in East Asia, Gutenberg's invention of the printing press [2] enabled a much faster rate of printing. The printing press later spread ...
As of 2016, 400 million people spoke English as their first language, and 1.1 billion spoke it as a secondary language. [68] English is the largest language by number of speakers. English is spoken by communities on every continent and on islands in all the major oceans.
Edits to English Wikipedia by country as of January 2022. English Wikipedia (marked blue in the graph) is the most-read version of Wikipedia, accounting for 48% of the website's global traffic as of 2021. The English Wikipedia is the most edited Wikipedia's language version of all time.
