1485

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

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Events of 1485

In fiction

Births

Deaths

Events of 1485

★ June 1 - Matthias of Hungary takes Vienna in his conquest of Austria (from Frederick III) and makes the city his capital.

★ August 5-7 - First outbreak of sweating sickness in England begins.

★ August 22 - 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.

In fiction

★ In Blackadder -

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★ August 21 - The first Baldrick/Blackadder servancy begins.

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★ August 22 - Richard III wins the Battle of Bosworth Field, only to be killed by Edmund Blackadder. Henry VII escapes and Richard IV becomes King.

Births

★ June 24 - Johannes Bugenhagen, German religious reformer (died 1558)

★ October 1 - Johannes Dantiscus, Polish poet and bishop (died 1548)

★ December 16 - Catherine of Aragon, queen of Henry VIII of England (died 1536)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Hernán Cortés, Spanish conquistador (died 1547)

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★ Odet de Foix, Vicomte de Lautrec, French military leader (died 1528)

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★ Giovanni da Verrazzano, Italian explorer (approximate date; died c. 1528)

★ ''probable''

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★ Hugh Aston, English composer (died 1558)

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★ Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex, English statesman (died 1540)

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★ Clément Janequin, French chanson composer

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★ Sebastiano del Piombo, Italian painter (died 1547)

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★ John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford, English royal minister (died 1555)

Deaths

★ February 28 - Niclas, Graf von Abensberg, German soldier (born 1441)

★ March 16 - Anne Neville, queen of Richard III of England (born 1456)

★ August 7 - Alexander Stewart, 1st Duke of Albany, Scottish prince (born c1454)

★ August 22

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★ King Richard III of England (killed in battle) (born 1452)

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★ John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk (killed in battle) (born 1430)

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★ Richard Ratcliffe, supporter of Richard III (killed in battle)

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★ William Brandon, supporter of Henry VII (killed in battle) (born 1426)

★ August - William Catesby, supporter of Richard III (executed) (born 1450)

★ October 17 - John Scott of Scott's Hall, Warden of the Cinque Ports

★ October 28 - Rodolphus Agricola, Dutch scholar (born 1443)

★ November 4 - Françoise d'Amboise, Duchess of Brittany (born 1427)