1481

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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 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1481 MCDLXXXI
Ab urbe condita	2234
Armenian calendar	930 ԹՎ ՋԼ
Bahá'í calendar	-363 – -362
Berber calendar	2431
Buddhist calendar	2025
Burmese calendar	843
Byzantine calendar	6989 – 6990
Chinese calendar	庚子年十二月初二日 (4117/4177-12-2) — to — 辛丑年十二月十一日 (4118/4178-12-11)
Coptic calendar	1197 – 1198
Ethiopian calendar	1473 – 1474
Hebrew calendar	5241 – 5242
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1536 – 1537
- Shaka Samvat	1403 – 1404
- Kali Yuga	4582 – 4583
Holocene calendar	11481
Iranian calendar	859 – 860
Islamic calendar	885 – 886
Japanese calendar	Bunmei 13 (文明13年)
Korean calendar	3814
Thai solar calendar	2024
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1481 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology - Architecture -

Art - Literature - Music - Science

Leaders:   State leaders - Colonial governors

Category: Establishments - Disestablishments

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

[edit] Events of 1481

• 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).
• 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.
• 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.
• Fire destroys the roof and the spires of the Cathedral of Notre Dame at Rheims.
• The famous Aztec Calendar Stone or "Sun Stone" is carved.
• The Spanish Inquisition begins. It will continute to operate until 1820.
• The papal bull Aeterni regis grants all land south of the Canary Islands to Portugal.
• Axayacatl, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan, dies and is succeeded by his brother Tízoc.

[edit] 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)

[edit] Deaths

• January 6 - Akhmat Khan, khan of the Great Horde
• May 3 - Mehmed II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1432)
• 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)