1485

1485 (MCDLXXXV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1485th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 485th year of the 2nd millennium, the 85th year of the 15th century, and the 6th year of the 1480s decade. As of the start of 1485, the Gregorian calendar was 9 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1450s  1460s  1470s  – 1480s –  1490s  1500s  1510s
Years:	1482 1483 1484 – 1485 – 1486 1487 1488

1485 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1485 MCDLXXXV
Ab urbe condita	2238
Armenian calendar	934 ԹՎ ՋԼԴ
Assyrian calendar	6235
Balinese saka calendar	1406–1407
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	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

• August 22 – Battle of Bosworth Field ends the War of the Roses, Henry VII becomes King of England.
• The first appearance of the sweating sickness in England.

Births

• 16 December – Catherine of Aragon, later first Queen-consort of King Henry VIII of England.
• Thomas Cromwell, English statesman (approximately).
• Hernán Cortés, conqueror of Mexico
• Clément Janequin, French chanson composer (approximate date)
• Hugh Aston, English composer (approximate date)
• Pierre Moulu, French composer (approximate date)

Deaths

• March 16 – Anne Neville, Queen consort of Richard III of England.
• 22 August – King Richard III of England.
• October 28 – Rodolphus Agricola, Dutch scholar