1485

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

Richard III of England is killed at the Battle of Bosworth Field.

1485 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1485 MCDLXXXV
Ab urbe condita	2238
Armenian calendar	934 ԹՎ ՋԼԴ
Assyrian calendar	6235
Balinese saka calendar	1406–1407
Bengali calendar	891–892
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) 4182 or 3975     — to — 乙巳年 (Wood Snake) 4183 or 3976
Coptic calendar	1201–1202
Discordian calendar	2651
Ethiopian calendar	1477–1478
Hebrew calendar	5245–5246
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1541–1542
- Shaka Samvat	1406–1407
- Kali Yuga	4585–4586
Holocene calendar	11485
Igbo calendar	485–486
Iranian calendar	863–864
Islamic calendar	889–890
Japanese calendar	Bunmei 17 (文明１７年)
Javanese calendar	1401–1402
Julian calendar	1485 MCDLXXXV
Korean calendar	3818
Minguo calendar	427 before ROC 民前427年
Nanakshahi calendar	17
Thai solar calendar	2027–2028
Tibetan calendar	ཤིང་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་ (male Wood-Dragon) 1611 or 1230 or 458     — to — ཤིང་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་ (female Wood-Snake) 1612 or 1231 or 459

Events

January–December

• Spring – Multiple earthquakes occur near Taishan, China.
• March 16 – A solar eclipse crosses 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 5–7 – The first outbreak of sweating sickness in England begins.
• August 22 – Battle of Bosworth: King Richard III of England is defeated by (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 (although Henry marks this battle as August 21, so that he can declare all his opponents traitors).
• September 12 – Muscovian forces conquer 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 stops the Mad War.

Date unknown

• Leon Battista Alberti's De Re Aedificatoria (written 1443–1452 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, German humanist and religious reformer (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, Italian 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)
  • Johanna of Hachberg-Sausenberg, ruler of Neuchatel (d. 1543)
  • 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
  • Sayyida al Hurra, Moroccan pirate queen
  • Sebastiano del Piombo, Italian painter (d. 1547)
  • John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford, English royal minister (d. 1555)

Deaths

• January 20 – Eustochia Smeralda Calafato, Italian saint (b. 1434)
• February 28 – Niclas, Graf von Abensberg, German soldier (b. 1441)
• March 16 – Anne Neville, queen of Richard III of England (b. 1456)^[3]
• August 7 – Alexander Stewart, 1st Duke of Albany, Scottish prince (b. c. 1454)
• August 15 – Albert II, Duke of Brunswick-Grubenhagen (b. 1419)
• August 22 (killed in the Battle of Bosworth Field):
  • King Richard III of England (b. 1452)^[4]
  • John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk (b. 1430)
  • James Harrington, Yorkist knight
  • Richard Ratcliffe, supporter of Richard III
  • John Babington, High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and the Royal Forests
  • Robert Brackenbury, English nobleman, courtier and supporter of Richard III
  • Walter Devereux, 8th Baron Ferrers of Chartley, supporter of Richard III
  • William Brandon, supporter of Henry VII (b. 1456)
• 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 27 – Rodolphus Agricola, Dutch scholar (b. 1443)
• November 4 – Françoise d'Amboise, Duchess of Brittany (b. 1427)
• November 4 – Giovanni Mocenigo, Doge of Venice (b. 1408)^[5]
• Date unknown – Kristina Königsmarck, Swedish noblewoman.