1481

This article is about the year 1481. For the number, see 1481 (number).

Millennium:	2nd millennium
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
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

1481 in other calendars
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	1403–1404
- Kali Yuga	4582–4583
Holocene calendar	11481
Igbo calendar	481–482
Iranian calendar	859–860
Islamic calendar	885–886
Japanese calendar	Bunmei 13 (文明１３年)
Julian calendar	1481 MCDLXXXI
Korean calendar	3814
Minguo calendar	431 before ROC 民前431年
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

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.

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 Notre-Dame de Reims cathedral.
The Aztec Calendar Stone or Sun Stone is carved.

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)
date unknown – Imperia La Divina, Roman courtesan, counted as the first famous courtesan in Europe (d. 1512)

Deaths

Mehmed II, the Conqueror

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)

References

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