1481

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

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).
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.
September 10 - Alphonso II of Naples recaptures the city of Otranto.
John II of Portugal starts to rule.

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)

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)

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