1481

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century 15th century 16th century
Decades:	1460s 1470s 1480s 1490s 1500s
Years:	1478 1479 1480 1481 1482 1483 1484

1481 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1481 MCDLXXXI
Ab urbe condita	2234
Armenian calendar	930 ԹՎ ՋԼ
Assyrian calendar	6231
Balinese saka calendar	1402–1403
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	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 (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar).

Events

January–December

• 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]

Date unknown

• 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

• 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

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

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. 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.