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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.

exploration, colonization

Portugal's new king spurs the explorations that have given his nation dominance in trade with West Africa.

religion

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

Events of 1481

  • May 3 - Mehmed II, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire dies and is succeeded by his son Beyazid II.
  • May 21 - Christian I, King of Denmark and Norway dies and is succeeded by his son John (1481-1513).
  • December 26 - Battle of Westbroek - Holland defeats troops of Utrecht.
  • With the death of Duke Charles IV of Anjou, Anjou was reverted to the French crown under Louis XI of France.
  • Change of Patriarch Maximus III (1476-1481) to Symeon I (1466, 1471-1474, 1481-1486).
  • Fire destroyed the roof and the spires of the Cathedral of Notre Dame at Rheims.
  • Famous Aztec Calendar Stone or "Sun Stone" carved.
  • The Spanish Inquisition began (until 1820).
  • The papal Bull Aeterni regis had granted all land south of the Canaries to Portugal.
  • Axayacatl, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan dies and is succeeded by his brother Tízoc.
  • September 10 - Alphonso II of Naples recaptures the city Otranto

Births

  • January 15 - Ashikaga Yoshizumi, Japanese shogun (died 1511)
  • March 2 - Franz von Sickingen, German knight (died 1523)
  • March 7 - Baldassare Peruzzi, Italian architect and painter (died 1537)
  • July 2 - King Christian II of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden (died 1559)
  • date unknown
  • probable

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