1481 Births

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.
* May 21 – Christian I, King of Denmark and List of Norwegian monarchs, Norway, dies and is succeeded by his son John of Denmark, John (1481–1513).
* June 21 – The papal bull ''Aeterni regis, Aeterni Regis'' grants all land south of the Canary Islands to Portugal.
* 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, Duchy of Anjou, Anjou reverts to the French crown under Louis XI of France.
* December 26 – Battle of Westbroek: Holland defeats the troops of Utrecht (province), Utrecht.

Date unknown

* The ''Constitució de l'Observança'' is approved by the Catalan Courts, establishing the Rule of law, 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 Aztec sun stone, Sun Stone is carved.
* Canton of Fribourg, Fribourg and Canton of Solothurn, 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 (Bishop of Freising), Ruprecht of the Palatinate, German bishop (d. 1504)
* July 1 – King Christian II of Denmark, Scandinavian monarch under the Kalmar Union (d. 1559)
* August 21 – Jorge de Lencastre, Duke of Coimbra (d. 1550)
* August 28 – Francisco de Sá de Miranda, Portuguese poet (d. 1558)
* November 11 – Christoph von Scheurl, German writer (d. 1542)
* December 18 – Sophie of Mecklenburg (1481–1503), 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

* 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)
* August 23 – Thomas de Littleton, English judge and legal author (b. c. 1407)
* August 28 – King Afonso V of Portugal (b. 1432)
* 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)
** 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), Erik Axelsson Tott, regent of Sweden (b. 1415)

References

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