1485

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Decades:	1450s  1460s  1470s  – 1480s –  1490s  1500s  1510s
Years:	1482 1483 1484 – 1485 – 1486 1487 1488

1485 by topic
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Architecture - Art
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1485 in poetry

1485 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1485 MCDLXXXV
Ab urbe condita	2238
Armenian calendar	934 ԹՎ ՋԼԴ
Assyrian calendar	6235
Bengali calendar	892
Berber calendar	2435
English Regnal year	2 Ric. 3 – 1 Hen. 7
Buddhist calendar	2029
Burmese calendar	847
Byzantine calendar	6993–6994
Chinese calendar	甲辰年 (Wood Dragon) 4181 or 4121     — to — 乙巳年 (Wood Snake) 4182 or 4122
Coptic calendar	1201–1202
Discordian calendar	2651
Ethiopian calendar	1477–1478
Hebrew calendar	5245–5246
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1541–1542
- Shaka Samvat	1407–1408
- Kali Yuga	4586–4587
Holocene calendar	11485
Igbo calendar	485–486
Iranian calendar	863–864
Islamic calendar	889–890
Japanese calendar	Bunmei 17 (文明１７年)
Julian calendar	1485 MCDLXXXV
Korean calendar	3818
Minguo calendar	427 before ROC 民前427年
Thai solar calendar	2027–2028

Year 1485 (MCDLXXXV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

• Spring – Multiple earthquakes near Taishan, China
• March 16 Solar eclipse across northern South America and central Europe.^[1]
• June 1 – Matthias of Hungary takes Vienna in his conquest of Austria (from Frederick III) and makes the city his capital.
• August 5–August 7 – The first outbreak of sweating sickness in England begins.
• August 22 – The Battle of Bosworth is fought between the armies of King Richard III of England and rival claimant to the throne of England Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond. Richard dies in battle and Henry Tudor becomes King Henry VII of England.
• September 12 – Muscovian forces take hold of Tver.
• September 15 – Peter Arbues is assaulted while praying in the cathedral at Zaragoza, Spain; he dies on September 17. He had been appointed Inquisitor of Aragon by the Inquisitor General, Tomás de Torquemada, in the campaign against heresy and crypto-Judaism.
• October 30 – King Henry VII of England is crowned.
• November 2 – The Peace of Bourges freezes the Mad War.

Date unknown

• Leon Battista Alberti's De Re Aedificatoria (written 1443–52 and published posthumously) becomes the first printed work on architecture.
• From about this date, Leonardo da Vinci produces a number of designs for flying machines, including the aerial screw or helicopter (probably unworkable).^[2]

Births

Hernán Cortés

• March 10 – Sophie of Brandenburg-Ansbach-Kulmbach, German princess (d. 1537)
• April 26 – Sibylle of Baden, Countess consort of Hanau-Lichtenberg (d. 1518)
• June 20 – Astorre III Manfredi, Italian noble (d. 1502)
• June 24
  • Johannes Bugenhagen, German religious reformer (d. 1558)
  • Elizabeth of Denmark, Electress of Brandenburg (1502–1535) (d. 1555)
• July 20 – Giovanni Battista Ramusio, Italian geographer (d. 1557)
• August 22 – Beatus Rhenanus (d. 1547)
• September 14 – Anna of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Mecklenburgian royal (d. 1525)
• October 1 – Johannes Dantiscus, Polish poet and bishop (d. 1548)
• October 8 – Antonio Pucci, Catholic cardinal (d. 1544)
• November 30 – Veronica Gambara, Italian poet and stateswoman (d. 1550)
• December 16 – Catherine of Aragon, First Queen of Henry VIII of England and daughter of Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile (d. 1536)
• date unknown
  • Hernán Cortés, Spanish conquistador (d. 1547)
  • Odet de Foix, Vicomte de Lautrec, French military leader (d. 1528)
  • Giovanni da Verrazzano, Italian explorer (approximate date; d. c. 1528)
• probable
  • Hugh Aston, English composer (d. 1558)
  • Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex, English statesman (d. 1540)
  • Clément Janequin, French chanson composer
  • Sebastiano del Piombo, Italian painter (d. 1547)
  • John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford, English royal minister (d. 1555)

Deaths

• February 28 – Niclas, Graf von Abensberg, German soldier (b. 1441)
• March 13 – Paul Luther, French monk (b. 1432)
• March 16 – Anne Neville, queen of Richard III of England (born 1456)
• August 7 – Alexander Stewart, 1st Duke of Albany, Scottish prince (b. c. 1454)
• August 22 – killed in the Battle of Bosworth Field:
  • King Richard III of England (b. 1452)
  • John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk (b. 1430)
  • Richard Ratcliffe, supporter of Richard III
  • William Brandon, supporter of Henry VII (b. 1426)
• August 25 – William Catesby, supporter of Richard III (executed) (b. 1450)
• October 17 – John Scott of Scott's Hall, Warden of the Cinque Ports
• October 28 – Rodolphus Agricola, Dutch scholar (b. 1443)
• November 4 – Françoise d'Amboise, Duchess of Brittany (b. 1427)

References

1. NASA Eclipse site Visited June 4, 2015
2. Hart, Clive (1972). The Dream of Flight: aeronautics from classical times to the Renaissance. New York: Winchester Press.