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The Ottoman sultan Mehmet II dies at Hunkarcayr outside Constantinople May 3 at age 49 on the eve of another campaign in Anatolia. In his autocratic 30-year reign he has reorganized the government, given it its first codified criminal law code, encouraged scholarship, and invited the painter Gentile Bellini from Venice to decorate the walls of his palace. His eldest son is 34 and will reign until 1512 as Bayazid II, strengthening Turkish power in Europe through wars with Poland, Hungary, and Venice.
Milanese power changes hands as Ludovico Sforza (Il Moro), uncle of Gian Galeazzo, ousts the boy's mother from her regency and takes over (see 1479; 1494).
English jurist Sir Thomas Littleton (or Lyttelton, or Luttelton) dies at Frankley, Worcestershire, August 23 at age 59, having produced a Treatise on Tenures (or Littleton on Tenures), the first English legal text not written in Latin or showing any great influence of Roman (civil) law.
Portugal's Afonso V dies at his native Sintra in the Azores August 28 at age 49 after a 43-year reign. Afonso the African renounced his throne 2 years ago and abandoned any claim to Castile, but the Cortes has not yet met to ratify his abdication. Afonso is succeeded by his 26-year-old son, who will reign until 1495 as João II.
Portugal's new king spurs the explorations that have given his nation dominance in trade with West Africa.
The Spanish Inquisition puts eight converted Jews on trial, finds them guilty, and burns them at the stake (see 1478). It begins persecuting the so-called Marranos (the word originally meant "pigs") and will be broadened to persecute all "heretics," including Muslims (see Torquemada, 1483).
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This article is about the year 1481.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 14th century – 15th century – 16th century |
| Decades: | 1450s 1460s 1470s – 1480s – 1490s 1500s 1510s |
| Years: | 1478 1479 1480 – 1481 – 1482 1483 1484 |
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| 1481 in poetry |
| Gregorian calendar | 1481 MCDLXXXI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2234 |
| Armenian calendar | 930 ԹՎ ՋԼ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6231 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -363–-362 |
| Bengali calendar | 888 |
| Berber calendar | 2431 |
| English Regnal year | 20 Edw. 4 – 21 Edw. 4 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2025 |
| Burmese calendar | 843 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6989–6990 |
| Chinese calendar | 庚子年十二月初二日 (4117/4177-12-2) — to —
辛丑年十二月十一日(4118/4178-12-11) |
| Coptic calendar | 1197–1198 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1473–1474 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5241–5242 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1537–1538 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1403–1404 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4582–4583 |
| Holocene calendar | 11481 |
| Iranian calendar | 859–860 |
| Islamic calendar | 885–886 |
| Japanese calendar | Bunmei 13 (文明13年) |
| Korean calendar | 3814 |
| Minguo calendar | 431 before ROC 民前431年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2024 |
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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 – 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
- 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 Cathedral of Notre Dame at Rheims.
- 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)
- 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 – 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)
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