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Year 1485 (MCDLXXXV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar).

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Spring – Multiple earthquakes near Taishan, China
June 1 – Matthias of Hungary takes Vienna in his conquest of Austria (from Frederick III) and makes the city his capital.
August 5–August 7 – The first outbreak of sweating sickness in England begins.
August 22 – The Battle of Bosworth Field is fought between the armies of King Richard III of England and rival claimant to the throne of England Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond. Richard dies in battle and Henry Tudor becomes King Henry VII of England.
September 12 – Muscovian forces take hold of Tver.
September 15 – Peter Arbues is assaulted while praying in the cathedral at Zaragoza, Spain; he dies on September 17. He had been appointed Inquisitor of Aragon by the Inquisitor General, Tomás de Torquemada, in the campaign against heresy and crypto-Judaism.
November 2 – The Peace of Bourges freezes the Mad War.

Leon Battista Alberti's De Re Aedificatoria (written 1443–52 and published posthumously) becomes the first printed work on architecture.
From about this date, Leonardo da Vinci produces a number of designs for flying machines, including the ariel screw or helicopter (probably unworkable).^[1]

June 24 – Johannes Bugenhagen, German religious reformer (d. 1558)
October 1 – Johannes Dantiscus, Polish poet and bishop (d. 1548)
December 16 – Catherine of Aragon, First Queen of Henry VIII of England and daughter of Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile (d. 1536)
date unknown
- Hernán Cortés, Spanish conquistador (d. 1547)
- Odet de Foix, Vicomte de Lautrec, French military leader (d. 1528)
- Giovanni da Verrazzano, Italian explorer (approximate date; d. c. 1528)
probable
- Hugh Aston, English composer (d. 1558)
- Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex, English statesman (d. 1540)
- Clément Janequin, French chanson composer
- Sebastiano del Piombo, Italian painter (d. 1547)
- John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford, English royal minister (d. 1555)

February 28 – Niclas, Graf von Abensberg, German soldier (b. 1441)
March 13 – Paul Luther, French monk (b. 1432)
March 16 – Anne Neville, queen of Richard III of England (born 1456)
August 7 – Alexander Stewart, 1st Duke of Albany, Scottish prince (b. c. 1454)
August 22 – killed in the Battle of Bosworth Field:
- King Richard III of England (b. 1452)
- John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk (b. 1430)
- Richard Ratcliffe, supporter of Richard III
- William Brandon, supporter of Henry VII (b. 1426)
August – William Catesby, supporter of Richard III (executed) (b. 1450)
October 17 – John Scott of Scott's Hall, Warden of the Cinque Ports
October 28 – Rodolphus Agricola, Dutch scholar (b. 1443)
November 4 – Françoise d'Amboise, Duchess of Brittany (b. 1427)

^ Hart, Clive (1972). The Dream of Flight: aeronautics from classical times to the Renaissance. New York: Winchester Press.