1481

Year '1481' was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar).

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Events of 1481

Births

Deaths

Events of 1481

★ May 3 - Mehmed II, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire dies and is succeeded by his son Beyazid II.

★ May 21 - Christian I, King of Denmark and Norway dies and is succeeded by his son John (1481-1513).

★ December 26 - Battle of Westbroek - Holland defeats troops of Utrecht.

★ With the death of Duke Charles IV of Anjou, Anjou was reverted to the French crown under Louis XI of France.

★ Change of Patriarch Maximus III (1476-1481) to Symeon I (1466, 1471-1474, 1481-1486).

★ Fire destroyed the roof and the spires of the Cathedral of Notre Dame at Rheims.

★ Famous ''Aztec Calendar Stone'' or "Sun Stone" carved.

★ The Spanish Inquisition began (until 1820).

★ The papal ''Bull Aeterni regis'' had granted all land south of the Canaries to Portugal.

★ Axayacatl, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan dies and is succeeded by his brother Tízoc.

★ September 10 - Alphonso II of Naples recaptures the city Otranto

Births

★ January 15 - Ashikaga Yoshizumi, Japanese shogun (died 1511)

★ March 2 - Franz von Sickingen, German knight (died 1523)

★ March 7 - Baldassare Peruzzi, Italian architect and painter (died 1537)

★ July 2 - King Christian II of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden (died 1559)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Yan Song, Chinese prime minister (died 1568)

★ ''probable''

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★ Antonio de Guevara, Spanish chronicler and moralist (died 1545)

Deaths

★ January 6 - Akhmat Khan, khan of the Great Horde

★ May 3 - Mehmed II, Ottoman Sultan (born 1432)

★ May 21 - King Christian I of Denmark and Norway (born 1426)

★ August 23 - Thomas de Littleton, English judge and legal author (born c1407)

★ August 28 - King Afonso V of Portugal (born 1432)

★ November 19 - Anne de Mowbray, 8th Countess of Norfolk (born 1472)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Axayacatl, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan

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★ Charles IV, Duke of Anjou, titular King of Naples (born 1436)

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★ Jean Fouquet, French painter (born 1420)

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★ Ikkyu, Japanese Zen Buddhist priest and poet (born 1394)

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★ Mary Woodville, English noblewoman (born c. 1454)

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★ Erik Axelsson Tott, regent of Sweden (born 1415)