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Februari. 17 februari – Vid ärkebiskop Nils Ragvaldssons död utses Jöns Bengtsson (Oxenstierna) till ny svensk ärkebiskop. Februari – En koalition, bland annat bestående av svenskar, besegrar novgoroderna i slaget vid Narvafloden.
- Mötet i Stockholm 1448
Mötet i Stockholm 1448 var en sammankomst som hölls i...
- Mötet i Stockholm 1448
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.
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In 1444, the Hungarian king, Władysław III of Poland, in breach of a ten-year truce that existed with the Ottoman Empire following the Peace of Szeged, launched a new crusade. Meeting the Ottoman forces at the Battle of Varna, the crusading army was destroyed and the king was killed. Two years later in 1446, Sultan Murad II returned to the Balkans ...
The Crusaders, numbering 22,000-30,000 arrived at Kosovo Field (the site of the first Battle of Kosovo in 1389, between Serbs and Ottomans) having faced an Ottoman army of 40,000-60,000 men Sultan Murad personally commanded a large section of cannons and janissaries, while his son and would-be successor, 16-year-old Mehmed, who faced battle for the...
The Christian Balkan states were unable to resist the Ottomans after this defeat, eventually falling one after the others under control of the Ottoman Empire. Hunyadi was captured by Branković in retaliation for the damage perpetrated by the Hungarian army in Serbia. Hunyadi's release was negotiated against a ransom of 100,000 florins, the return o...
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1. Àgoston, G.A.; Masters, B.A. (2010). Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire. Facts on File Library of World History. Facts On File, Incorporated. ISBN 978-1-4381-1025-7. 2. Phillips, C.; Axelrod, A. (2005). Encyclopedia of Wars: G-R. Facts On File. ISBN 978-0-8160-2853-5. Retrieved 2022-01-17. 3. Antoche, E.C. (2017). "Hunyadi's Campaign of 1448 and the Second Battle of Kosovo Polje (October 17–20)". In Housley, Norman (ed.). Reconfiguring the Fifteenth-Century Crusade. Palgrave Macmillan. pp....
Antoche, Emanuel Constantin (January 2017). "(FULL PDF) Hunyadi's campaign of 1448 and the second battle of Kosovo polje (17-20 october) - Emanuel Constantin Antoche". Reconfiguring the Fifteenth-C...Kristofer av Bayern, troligen född 26 februari 1418 i Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz, död 6 januari 1448 i Helsingborg, var kung av Danmark (Kristofer III) från 1440, kung av Sverige från 1441 och kung av Norge från 1442.
1448. Andra slaget vid Kosovo Polje. Mötet i Stockholm 1448. Kategori: 1440-talet.
1448 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.
