1485

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

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1485 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1485
MCDLXXXV
Ab urbe condita2238
Armenian calendar934
ԹՎ ՋԼԴ
Assyrian calendar6235
Balinese saka calendar1406–1407
Bengali calendar892
Berber calendar2435
English Regnal year2 Ric. 3  1 Hen. 7
Buddhist calendar2029
Burmese calendar847
Byzantine calendar6993–6994
Chinese calendar甲辰年 (Wood Dragon)
4181 or 4121
     to 
乙巳年 (Wood Snake)
4182 or 4122
Coptic calendar1201–1202
Discordian calendar2651
Ethiopian calendar1477–1478
Hebrew calendar5245–5246
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1541–1542
 - Shaka Samvat1406–1407
 - Kali Yuga4585–4586
Holocene calendar11485
Igbo calendar485–486
Iranian calendar863–864
Islamic calendar889–890
Japanese calendarBunmei 17
(文明17年)
Javanese calendar1401–1402
Julian calendar1485
MCDLXXXV
Korean calendar3818
Minguo calendar427 before ROC
民前427年
Nanakshahi calendar17
Thai solar calendar2027–2028
Tibetan calendar阳木龙年
(male Wood-Dragon)
1611 or 1230 or 458
     to 
阴木蛇年
(female Wood-Snake)
1612 or 1231 or 459

Events

JanuaryDecember

Date unknown

  • Leon Battista Alberti's De Re Aedificatoria (written 144352 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

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)
  • Date unknown Kristina Königsmarck, Swedish noblewoman.

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.
  3. Cannon, John; Hargreaves, Anne (2009). The Kings and Queens of Britain. OUP Oxford. p. 246. ISBN 9780191580284.
  4. "Richard III | Biography & Facts". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved June 26, 2020.
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