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

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January–December

  • 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).
  • June 21 – The papal bull Aeterni regis grants all land south of the Canary Islands to Portugal.
  • 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 26 – Battle of Westbroek: Holland defeats the troops of Utrecht.

    • Date unknown

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

    • 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)
  • May 3 – Juana de la Cruz Vázquez Gutiérrez, Spanish venerated Christian (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)
  • August 28 – Francisco de Sá de Miranda, Portuguese poet of the Renaissance (d. 1558)
  • November 11 – Christoph von Scheurl, German writer (d. 1542)
  • December 18 – Sophie of Mecklenburg, Duchess of Mecklenburg by birth, and by marriage 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)
  • probable – Antonio de Guevara, Spanish chronicler and moralist (d. 1545)
  • date unknown – Imperia La Divina, Roman courtesan, counted as the first famous courtesan in Europe (d. 1512)

    • Deaths

  • January 6 – Akhmat Khan, khan of the Great Horde
  • 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)
  • 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)

    • References

    1481 Wikipedia
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