Year 1485 (MCDLXXXV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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Centuries: | |
Decades: | |
Years: |
Gregorian calendar | 1485 MCDLXXXV |
Ab urbe condita | 2238 |
Armenian calendar | 934 ԹՎ ՋԼԴ |
Assyrian calendar | 6235 |
Balinese saka calendar | 1406–1407 |
Bengali calendar | 892 |
Berber calendar | 2435 |
English Regnal year | 2 Ric. 3 – 1 Hen. 7 |
Buddhist calendar | 2029 |
Burmese calendar | 847 |
Byzantine calendar | 6993–6994 |
Chinese calendar | 甲辰年 (Wood Dragon) 4182 or 3975 — to — 乙巳年 (Wood Snake) 4183 or 3976 |
Coptic calendar | 1201–1202 |
Discordian calendar | 2651 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1477–1478 |
Hebrew calendar | 5245–5246 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1541–1542 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1406–1407 |
- Kali Yuga | 4585–4586 |
Holocene calendar | 11485 |
Igbo calendar | 485–486 |
Iranian calendar | 863–864 |
Islamic calendar | 889–890 |
Japanese calendar | Bunmei 17 (文明17年) |
Javanese calendar | 1401–1402 |
Julian calendar | 1485 MCDLXXXV |
Korean calendar | 3818 |
Minguo calendar | 427 before ROC 民前427年 |
Nanakshahi calendar | 17 |
Thai solar calendar | 2027–2028 |
Tibetan calendar | 阳木龙年 (male Wood-Dragon) 1611 or 1230 or 458 — to — 阴木蛇年 (female Wood-Snake) 1612 or 1231 or 459 |
Events
January–December
- Spring – Multiple earthquakes occur near Taishan, China.
- March 16 – A solar eclipse crosses northern South America and Central Europe.[1]
- June 1 – Matthias of Hungary takes Vienna, in his conquest of Austria (from Frederick III), and makes the city his capital.
- August 5–7 – The first outbreak of sweating sickness in England begins.
- August 22 – Battle of Bosworth: King Richard III of England is defeated by (rival claimant to the throne of England) Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond; Richard dies in battle, and Henry Tudor becomes King Henry VII of England (although Henry marks this battle as August 21, so that he can declare all his opponents traitors).
- September 12 – Muscovian forces conquer Tver.
- September 15 – Peter Arbues is assaulted while praying in the cathedral at Zaragoza, Spain; he dies on September 17. He had been appointed Inquisitor of Aragon by the Inquisitor General, Tomás de Torquemada, in the campaign against heresy and crypto-Judaism.
- October 30 – King Henry VII of England is crowned.
- November 2 – The Peace of Bourges stops the Mad War.
Date unknown
- Leon Battista Alberti's De Re Aedificatoria (written 1443–1452 and published posthumously) becomes the first printed work on architecture.
- From about this date, Leonardo da Vinci produces a number of designs for flying machines, including the aerial screw or helicopter (probably unworkable).[2]
Births
- March 10 – Sophie of Brandenburg-Ansbach-Kulmbach, German princess (d. 1537)
- April 26 – Sibylle of Baden, Countess consort of Hanau-Lichtenberg (d. 1518)
- June 20 – Astorre III Manfredi, Italian noble (d. 1502)
- June 24
- Johannes Bugenhagen, German religious reformer (d. 1558)
- Elizabeth of Denmark, Electress of Brandenburg (1502–1535) (d. 1555)
- July 20 – Giovanni Battista Ramusio, Italian geographer (d. 1557)
- August 22 – Beatus Rhenanus, German humanist and religious reformer (d. 1547)
- September 14 – Anna of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Mecklenburgian royal (d. 1525)
- October 1 – Johannes Dantiscus, Polish poet and bishop (d. 1548)
- October 8 – Antonio Pucci, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1544)
- November 30 – Veronica Gambara, Italian poet and stateswoman (d. 1550)
- December 16 – Catherine of Aragon, first queen of Henry VIII of England, and daughter of Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile (d. 1536)
- date unknown
- Hernán Cortés, Spanish conquistador (d. 1547)
- Odet de Foix, Vicomte de Lautrec, French military leader (d. 1528)
- Johanna of Hachberg-Sausenberg, ruler of Neuchatel (d. 1543)
- Giovanni da Verrazzano, Italian explorer (approximate date; d. c. 1528)
- probable
- Hugh Aston, English composer (d. 1558)
- Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex, English statesman (d. 1540)
- Clément Janequin, French chanson composer
- Sayyida al Hurra, Moroccan pirate queen
- Sebastiano del Piombo, Italian painter (d. 1547)
- John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford, English royal minister (d. 1555)
Deaths
- January 20 – Eustochia Smeralda Calafato, Italian saint (b. 1434)
- February 28 – Niclas, Graf von Abensberg, German soldier (b. 1441)
- March 16 – Anne Neville, queen of Richard III of England (b. 1456)[3]
- August 7 – Alexander Stewart, 1st Duke of Albany, Scottish prince (b. c. 1454)
- August 15 – Albert II, Duke of Brunswick-Grubenhagen (b. 1419)
- August 22 (killed in the Battle of Bosworth Field):
- King Richard III of England (b. 1452)[4]
- John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk (b. 1430)
- James Harrington, Yorkist knight
- Richard Ratcliffe, supporter of Richard III
- John Babington, High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and the Royal Forests
- Robert Brackenbury, English nobleman, courtier and supporter of Richard III
- Walter Devereux, 8th Baron Ferrers of Chartley, supporter of Richard III
- William Brandon, supporter of Henry VII (b. 1456)
- August 25 – William Catesby, supporter of Richard III (executed) (b. 1450)
- October 17 – John Scott of Scott's Hall, Warden of the Cinque Ports
- October 27 – Rodolphus Agricola, Dutch scholar (b. 1443)
- November 4 – Françoise d'Amboise, Duchess of Brittany (b. 1427)
- November 4 – Giovanni Mocenigo, Doge of Venice (b. 1408)[5]
- Date unknown – Kristina Königsmarck, Swedish noblewoman.
References
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