Information about 1481

Centuries:	14th century - 15th century - 16th century
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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
Yan Song, Chinese prime minister (died 1568)
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Antonio de Guevara, Spanish chronicler and moralist (died 1545)

Deaths

January 6 - Akhmat Khan, khan of the Great Horde
May 3 - Mehmed II, Ottoman Sultan (born 1432)
May 21 - King Christian I of Denmark and Norway (born 1426)
August 23 - Thomas de Littleton, English judge and legal author (born c1407)
August 28 - King Afonso V of Portugal (born 1432)
November 19 - Anne de Mowbray, 8th Countess of Norfolk (born 1472)
date unknown
Axayacatl, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan
Charles IV, Duke of Anjou, titular King of Naples (born 1436)
Jean Fouquet, French painter (born 1420)
Ikkyu, Japanese Zen Buddhist priest and poet (born 1394)
Mary Woodville, English noblewoman (born c. 1454)
Erik Axelsson Tott, regent of Sweden (born 1415)

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The transition from the Medieval Warm Period to the Little Ice Age
Beginning of the Ottoman Empire, early expansion into the Balkans

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1402: Ottoman and Timurid Empires fight at the Battle of Ankara resulting in Timur's capture of Bayezid I.
1402: The conquest of the Canary Islands signals the beginning of the Spanish Empire.

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1500s: Mississippian culture disappears.

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Ethiopia - Eskender, Emperor of Ethiopia (1478-1494)

Adal Sultanate - Shams ad-Din ibn Muhammad, Sultan (1472 - 1488)

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Mehmed II (Ottoman Turkish: محمد ثانى Meḥmed-i sānī, Turkish: II.
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The Ottoman Dynasty (or the Imperial House of Osman) ruled the Ottoman Empire from 1281 to 1923, beginning with Osman I (not counting his father, Ertuğrul), though the dynasty was not proclaimed until 1383 when Murad I declared himself sultan.
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Ottoman Empire or Ottoman Caliphate (1299 to 1922) (Old Ottoman Turkish: دولت عالیه عثمانیه Devlet-i Âliye-yi Osmâniyye, Late Ottoman and Modern Turkish:
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Bayezid II (1447/48 – May 26, 1512) (Ottoman Turkish: بايزيد ثانى Bāyezīd-i sānī, Turkish:II.Bayezid or II.
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