1481

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2nd millennium
Centuries

* 14th century
* 15th century
* 16th century

Decades

* 1460s
* 1470s
* 1480s
* 1490s
* 1500s

Years

* 1478
* 1479
* 1480
* 1481
* 1482
* 1483
* 1484

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1481 by topic

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1481 in various calendarsGregorian calendar| 1481
MCDLXXXI

|

Ab urbe condita| 2234
Armenian calendar| 930
ԹՎ ՋԼ
Assyrian calendar| 6231
Balinese saka calendar| 1402–1403
Bengali calendar| 887–888
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)
4178 or 3971
— to —
辛丑年 (Metal Ox)
4179 or 3972
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
Tibetan calendar| 阳金鼠年
(male Iron-Rat)
1607 or 1226 or 454
— to —
阴金牛年
(female Iron-Ox)
1608 or 1227 or 455

Year 1481 (MCDLXXXI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar).

## Events

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### January–December

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* May 3
* The 1481 Rhodes earthquake, the largest of a series, strikes the island of Rhodes, causing an estimated 30,000 casualties.
* Mehmed II, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, dies and is succeeded by his son, Bayezid II.[1]
* May 21 – Christian I, King of Denmark and Norway, dies and is succeeded by his son John (1481–1513).[2]
* June 21 – The papal bull Aeterni Regis grants all land south of the Canary Islands to Portugal.[3]
* July 24 – Fire destroys the roof and the spires of Reims Cathedral.
* 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 10 – With the death of Duke Charles IV of Anjou, Anjou reverts to the French crown under Louis XI of France, as does the Provence, which until then was part of the Holy Roman Empire.
* December 26 – Battle of Westbroek: Holland defeats the troops of Utrecht.[4]

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* The Constitució de l'Observança is approved by the Catalan Courts, establishing the submission of royal power to the laws of the Principality of Catalonia.
* Ludovico Sforza emerges as Regent of Milan (until 1499).
* Axayacatl, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan, dies and is succeeded by his brother Tízoc.
* The Aztec Calendar Stone or Sun Stone is carved.
* Fribourg and Solothurn become Cantons of Switzerland.

## Births

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* January 15 – Ashikaga Yoshizumi, Japanese shōgun (d. 1511)
* March 2 – Franz von Sickingen, German knight (d. 1523)
* March 7 – Baldassare Peruzzi, Italian architect and painter (d. 1536)
* May 3 – Juana de la Cruz Vázquez Gutiérrez, Spanish abbess of the Franciscan Third Order Regular (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)[5]
* August 21 – Jorge de Lencastre, Duke of Coimbra (d. 1550)
* August 28 – Francisco de Sá de Miranda, Portuguese poet (d. 1558)[6]
* November 11 – Christoph von Scheurl, German writer (d. 1542)
* December 18 – Sophie of Mecklenburg, Duchess of Mecklenburg, 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)
* Antonio de Guevara, Spanish chronicler and moralist (d. 1545)
* Imperia La Divina, Roman courtesan (d. 1512)

## Deaths

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Mehmed II, the Conqueror

* January 6 – Akhmat Khan, khan of the Great Horde
* April 30 – Ichijō Kaneyoshi, Japanese court noble (b. 1402)
* 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)[5]
* August 23 – Thomas de Littleton, English judge and legal author (b. c. 1407)
* August 28 – King Afonso V of Portugal (b. 1432)[7]
* September 3 – Amalie of Brandenburg, Countess Palatine and Duchess of Zweibruecken and Veldenz (b. 1461)
* September 5 – John I, Duke of Cleves (b. 1419)
* November 19 – Anne de Mowbray, 8th Countess of Norfolk (b. 1472)
* date unknown
* Axayacatl, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan (b. c. 1449)[8]
* 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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1. ^ "Mehmed II | Ottoman sultan". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved September 24, 2017.
2. ^ "Christian I | Scandinavian king". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved September 24, 2017.
3. ^ Phillips, William D.; Phillips, Carla Rahn (February 27, 1993). The Worlds of Christopher Columbus. Cambridge University Press. p. 187\. ISBN 9780521446525.
4. ^ André Tourneux; Joost vander Auwera; Jacques Paviot (2001). Interpreting the Universe as Creation (in Dutch). Peeters Publishers. p. 177\. ISBN 978-90-429-1052-2.
5. ^ a b The Encyclopedia Americana: Cathedrals-Civil War. Grolier. 2000. p. 642\. ISBN 978-0-7172-0133-4.
6. ^ Lilia Moritz Schwarcz; Paulo Cesar de Azevedo (2003). O livro dos livros da Real Biblioteca (in Portuguese). Ministério da Cultura, Fundação Biblioteca Nacional. p. 309\. ISBN 978-85-85023-88-1.
7. ^ Kenneth Meyer Setton (1976). The Papacy and the Levant, 1204-1571. American Philosophical Society. p. 372\. ISBN 978-0-87169-127-9.
8. ^ "Axayácatl, "El de la máscara de agua" (1469-1481)" [Axayácatl,, "He with the Water Mask"]. Arqueologia Mexicana (in Spanish). July 6, 2016. Retrieved June 6, 2019.

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