Editing 1481

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{{C15 year in topic}}Year '''1481''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MCDLXXXI]]''') was a [[common year starting on Monday]] of the [[Julian calendar]]).

== Events ==
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=== January&ndash;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]], [[Ottoman dynasty|Sultan]] of the [[Ottoman Empire]], dies and is succeeded by his son, [[Bayezid II]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mehmed-II-Ottoman-sultan|title=Mehmed II {{!}} Ottoman sultan|work=Encyclopedia Britannica|access-date=2017-09-24|language=en}}</ref>
* [[May 21]] &ndash; [[Christian I of Denmark|Christian I]], [[List of Danish monarchs|King of Denmark]] and [[List of Norwegian monarchs|Norway]], dies and is succeeded by his son [[John, King of Denmark|John]] (1481–[[1513]]).<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Christian-I-Scandinavian-king|title=Christian I {{!}} Scandinavian king|work=Encyclopedia Britannica|access-date=2017-09-24|language=en}}</ref>
* [[June 21]] &ndash; The papal bull ''[[Aeterni regis|Aeterni Regis]]'' grants all land south of the [[Canary Islands]] to [[Portugal]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8jhtmzLlX70C&q=papal+bull+1481+canary&pg=PA187|title=The Worlds of Christopher Columbus|last1=Phillips|first1=William D.|last2=Phillips|first2=Carla Rahn|date=1993-02-27|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9780521446525|pages=187|language=en}}</ref>
* [[July 24]] &ndash; Fire destroys the roof and the spires of [[Reims Cathedral]].
* [[August 29]] &ndash; [[John II of Portugal]] starts to rule in his own right.
* [[September 10]] &ndash; [[Alphonso II of Naples]] recaptures the city of [[Otranto]].
* [[December 10]] &ndash; With the death of Duke [[Charles IV of Anjou]], [[Duchy 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]] &ndash; [[Battle of Westbroek]]: [[Holland]] defeats the troops of [[Utrecht (province)|Utrecht]].<ref>{{cite book|author1=André Tourneux|author2=Joost vander Auwera|author3=Jacques Paviot|title=Interpreting the Universe as Creation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i_CNCO_8nKEC&pg=PA177|year=2001|publisher=Peeters Publishers|isbn=978-90-429-1052-2|pages=177|language=nl}}</ref>

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* 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]].</onlyinclude>

== Births ==
* [[January 15]] &ndash; [[Ashikaga Yoshizumi]], Japanese shōgun (d. [[1511]])
* [[March 2]] &ndash; [[Franz von Sickingen]], German knight (d. [[1523]])
* [[March 7]] &ndash; [[Baldassare Peruzzi]], Italian architect and painter (d. [[1536]])
* [[May 3]] &ndash; [[Juana de la Cruz Vázquez Gutiérrez]], Spanish abbess of the Franciscan Third Order Regular (d. [[1534]])
* [[May 14]] &ndash; [[Ruprecht of the Palatinate (Bishop of Freising)|Ruprecht of the Palatinate]], German bishop (d. [[1504]])
* [[July 1]] &ndash; King [[Christian II of Denmark]], Scandinavian monarch under the Kalmar Union (d. [[1559]])<ref name=Americana>{{cite book|title=The Encyclopedia Americana: Cathedrals-Civil War|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iQs1AAAAMAAJ|year=2000|publisher=Grolier|isbn=978-0-7172-0133-4|page=642}}</ref>
* [[August 21]] &ndash; [[Jorge de Lencastre, Duke of Coimbra]] (d. [[1550]])
* [[August 28]] &ndash; [[Francisco de Sá de Miranda]], Portuguese poet (d. [[1558]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Lilia Moritz Schwarcz|author2=Paulo Cesar de Azevedo|title=O livro dos livros da Real Biblioteca|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_SFOAQAAMAAJ|year=2003|publisher=Ministério da Cultura, Fundação Biblioteca Nacional|isbn=978-85-85023-88-1|page=309|language=pt}}</ref>
* [[November 11]] &ndash; [[Christoph von Scheurl]], German writer (d. [[1542]])
* [[December 18]] &ndash; [[Sophie of Mecklenburg (1481–1503)|Sophie of Mecklenburg]], Duchess of Mecklenburg, Duchess of Saxony (d. [[1503]])
* [[December 27]] &ndash; [[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 ==
[[File:Bellini, Gentile - Sultan Mehmet II.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Mehmed the Conqueror|Mehmed II, the Conqueror]]]]
* [[January 6]] &ndash; [[Akhmat Khan]], khan of the Great Horde
* [[April 30]] &ndash; [[Ichijō Kaneyoshi]], Japanese court noble (b. [[1402]])
* [[May 3]] &ndash; [[Mehmed II]], [[Ottoman Sultan]] (b. [[1432]])
* May &ndash; [[Karamanlı Mehmet Pasha]], Ottoman (Turkish) grand vizier
* [[May 21]] &ndash; King [[Christian I of Denmark]] and Norway (b. [[1426]])<ref name=Americana/>
* [[August 23]] &ndash; [[Thomas de Littleton]], English judge and legal author (b. c. [[1407]])
* [[August 28]] &ndash; King [[Afonso V of Portugal]] (b. [[1432]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Kenneth Meyer Setton|title=The Papacy and the Levant, 1204-1571|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0Sz2VYI0l1IC&pg=PA372|year=1976|publisher=American Philosophical Society|isbn=978-0-87169-127-9|pages=372}}</ref>
* [[September 3]] &ndash; [[Amalie of Brandenburg]], Countess Palatine and Duchess of Zweibruecken and Veldenz (b. [[1461]])
* [[September 5]] &ndash; [[John I, Duke of Cleves]] (b. [[1419]])
* [[November 19]] &ndash; [[Anne de Mowbray, 8th Countess of Norfolk]] (b. [[1472]])
* ''date unknown''
** [[Axayacatl]], Aztec ruler of [[Tenochtitlan]] (b. c. [[1449]])<ref>{{cite web|title=Axayácatl, "El de la máscara de agua" (1469-1481)|url=https://arqueologiamexicana.mx/mexico-antiguo/axayacatl-el-de-la-mascara-de-agua-1469-1481|website=Arqueologia Mexicana|date=July 6, 2016|language=es|trans-title=Axayácatl,, "He with the Water Mask"|access-date=June 6, 2019}}</ref>
** [[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]])

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