1481
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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 |
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 (Metal Rat) 4177 or 4117 — to — 辛丑年 (Metal Ox) 4178 or 4118 |
Coptic calendar | 1197–1198 |
Discordian calendar | 2647 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1473–1474 |
Hebrew calendar | 5241–5242 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1537–1538 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1402–1403 |
- Kali Yuga | 4581–4582 |
Holocene calendar | 11481 |
Igbo calendar | 481–482 |
Iranian calendar | 859–860 |
Islamic calendar | 885–886 |
Japanese calendar | Bunmei 13 (文明13年) |
Javanese calendar | 1397–1398 |
Julian calendar | 1481 MCDLXXXI |
Korean calendar | 3814 |
Minguo calendar | 431 before ROC 民前431年 |
Nanakshahi calendar | 13 |
Thai solar calendar | 2023–2024 |
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Year 1481 (MCDLXXXI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar).
Events[edit]
January–December[edit]
- 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.
Date unknown[edit]
- The Constitució de l'Observança was approved by the Catalan Courts, establishing the submission of royal power to the laws of the Principality of Catalonia.
- 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 Notre-Dame de Reims cathedral.
- The Aztec Calendar Stone or Sun Stone is carved.
Births[edit]
- 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)
- May 3 – Juana de la Cruz Vázquez Gutiérrez, Spanish venerated Christian (d. 1534)
- May 14 – Ruprecht of the Palatinate, German bishop (d. 1504)
- July 1 – King Christian II of Denmark, Scandinavian monarch under the Kalmar Union (d. 1559)
- August 28 – Francisco de Sá de Miranda, Portuguese poet of the Renaissance (d. 1558)
- November 11 – Christoph von Scheurl, German writer (d. 1542)
- December 18 – Sophie of Mecklenburg, Duchess of Mecklenburg by birth, and by marriage Duchess of Saxony (d. 1503)
- December 27 – Casimir, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, Margrave of Bayreuth (d. 1527)
- date unknown – Yan Song, Chinese prime minister (d. 1568)
- probable – Antonio de Guevara, Spanish chronicler and moralist (d. 1545)
- date unknown – Imperia La Divina, Roman courtesan, counted as the first famous courtesan in Europe (d. 1512)
Deaths[edit]
- 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)