1481
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This article is about the year 1481.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 14th century – 15th century – 16th century |
| Decades: | 1450s 1460s 1470s – 1480s – 1490s 1500s 1510s |
| Years: | 1478 1479 1480 – 1481 – 1482 1483 1484 |
| 1481 by topic |
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| Arts and science |
| Architecture - Art |
| Politics |
| State leaders - Sovereign states |
| Birth and death categories |
| Births - Deaths |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories |
| Establishments - Disestablishments |
| Art and literature |
| 1481 in poetry |
| Gregorian calendar | 1481 MCDLXXXI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2234 |
| Armenian calendar | 930 ԹՎ ՋԼ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6231 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -363–-362 |
| Bengali calendar | 888 |
| Berber calendar | 2431 |
| English Regnal year | 20 Edw. 4 – 21 Edw. 4 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2025 |
| Burmese calendar | 843 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6989–6990 |
| Chinese calendar | 庚子年十二月初二日 (4117/4177-12-2) — to —
辛丑年十二月十一日(4118/4178-12-11) |
| Coptic calendar | 1197–1198 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1473–1474 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5241–5242 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1537–1538 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1403–1404 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4582–4583 |
| Holocene calendar | 11481 |
| Iranian calendar | 859–860 |
| Islamic calendar | 885–886 |
| Japanese calendar | Bunmei 13 (文明13年) |
| Korean calendar | 3814 |
| Minguo calendar | 431 before ROC 民前431年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2024 |
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Year 1481 (MCDLXXXI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar).
[edit] Events
[edit] January–December
- May 3 – Mehmed II, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire dies and is succeeded by his son Bayezid II.
- May 21 – Christian I, King of Denmark and Norway dies and is succeeded by his son John (1481–1513).
- June 21 – The papal bull Aeterni regis grants all land south of the Canary Islands to Portugal.
- August 29 – John II of Portugal starts to rule in his own right.
- September 10 – Alphonso II of Naples recaptures the city of Otranto.
- December 26 – Battle of Westbroek: Holland defeats the troops of Utrecht.
[edit] Date unknown
- With the death of Duke Charles IV of Anjou, Anjou reverts to the French crown under Louis XI of France.
- Symeon I succeeds Maximus III as Patriarch of Constantinople.
- Ludovico Sforza emerges as Regent of Milan (until 1499).
- Axayacatl, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan, dies and is succeeded by his brother Tízoc.
- Fribourg and Solothurn become Cantons of Switzerland.
- Fire destroys the roof and the spires of the Cathedral of Notre Dame at Rheims.
- The Aztec Calendar Stone or Sun Stone is carved.
[edit] Births
- January 15 – Ashikaga Yoshizumi, Japanese shogun (d. 1511)
- March 2 – Franz von Sickingen, German knight (d. 1523)
- March 7 – Baldassare Peruzzi, Italian architect and painter (d. 1537)
- July 2 – King Christian II of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden (d. 1559)
- date unknown – Yan Song, Chinese prime minister (d. 1568)
- probable – Antonio de Guevara, Spanish chronicler and moralist (d. 1545)
[edit] Deaths
- January 6 – Akhmat Khan, khan of the Great Horde
- May 3 – Mehmed II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1432)
- May – Karamanlı Mehmet Pasha, Ottoman (Turkish) grand vizier
- May 21 – King Christian I of Denmark and Norway (b. 1426)
- August 23 – Thomas de Littleton, English judge and legal author (b. c. 1407)
- August 28 – King Afonso V of Portugal (b. 1432)
- November 19 – Anne de Mowbray, 8th Countess of Norfolk (b. 1472)
- date unknown
- Axayacatl, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan
- Charles IV, Duke of Anjou, titular King of Naples (b. 1436)
- Jean Fouquet, French painter (b. 1420)
- Ikkyu, Japanese Zen Buddhist priest and poet (b. 1394)
- Mary Woodville, English noblewoman (b. c. 1454)
- Erik Axelsson Tott, regent of Sweden (b. 1415)
