1485

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

Events of 1485

• 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 - The Battle of Bosworth Field 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.
• Portuguese and other Europeans begin to appear in Benin.

Births

• June 24 - Johannes Bugenhagen, German religious reformer (d. 1558)
• October 1 - Johannes Dantiscus, Polish poet and bishop (d. 1548)
• December 16 - Catherine of Aragon, queen of Henry VIII of England (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 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
  • King Richard III of England (in battle) (b. 1452)
  • John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk (in battle) (b. 1430)
  • Richard Ratcliffe, supporter of Richard III (in battle)
  • William Brandon, supporter of Henry VII (in battle) (b. 1426)
• August - 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)

1485 In fiction

• In Blackadder -
  • August 21 - The first Baldrick/Blackadder servancy begins.
  • August 22 - Richard III wins the Battle of Bosworth Field, only to be killed by Edmund Blackadder. Henry VII escapes and Richard IV becomes King.af:1485

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