February 6 : The first of many uses of the auto-da-fé Spanish Inquisition is carried out in the city of Seville as six people are burned alive after being convicted of heresy against the Roman Catholic ChurchCalendar year
Year 1481 (MCDLXXXI common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar .
Events
April 2 – King James III of Scotland gives royal assent to the six Defence of the Realm Acts and to the Benefices Act 1481, passed by his parliament in anticipation of a war with England.[ 3] April 5 – Mahmud Gawan , the chief minister (peshwa) of India ‘s Bahmani Kingdom (now in the state of Karnataka ) is executed in Bidar on orders of the Sultan Muhammad Shah III Lashkari , after being falsely convicted of treason.[ 4] Malik Hasan Bahri , becomes the new peshwa.[ 5] April 8 – Pope Sixtus IV issues the papal bull Cogimur jubente altissimo Turkish-occupied southern Italian area in and around Otranto , with the liberation of Valona (now in Albania) to follow.[ 6] [ 7] May 3
May 21 – King Christian I of Denmark and Norway dies at the age of 55. Although his eldest son, Prince Hans of Oldenburg , is accepted as the new King of Denmark , the Riksrådet (Council of the Realm) of the Kingdom of Norway postpones its decision pending negotiations to possibly reunite with the Kingdom of Sweden .[ 9] [ 10] June 21 – The papal bull Aeterni Regis Portugal first option to all newly conquered African and Asian lands south of the Canary Islands to Portugal .[ 11]
October 13 – The bodies of the Martyrs of Otranto , who had been killed in Italy in 1480 by the Ottomans who had conquered the city of Otranto , are discovered in the city’s cathedral “uncorrupted”,[ 12] canonized more than 500 years later on May 12, 2013.[ 13] November 16 – At Târgoviște , Basarab Țepeluș cel Tânăr replaces his successor, Vlad Călugărul as the voivode (prince) of Wallachia (now part of Romania)[ 14] December 10 – With the death of Duke Charles IV of Anjou , Anjou reverts to the French crown under Louis XI , as does the Provence , which until then was part of the Holy Roman Empire.December 14 – Ayas Pasha , the Ottoman Empire ‘s sanjak of Bosnia , captures the city of Herceg Novi after a month-long siege when the Duke Vlatko Hercegović agrees to surrender.[ 15] December 22 – The Canton of Fribourg [ 16] Canton of Solothurn [ 17] cantons of Switzerland by the Swiss Confedderation December 26 – At the Battle of Westbroek , Holland defeats the troops of Utrecht .[ 18] December 28 – The city of Zahara de la Sierra , now part of Spain , is captured by the Moorish Emir Abu’l-Hasan Ali of Granada in a surprise attack,[ 19] [ 20] Kingdom of Castile two months later.
Date unknown
Births
January 15 – Ashikaga Yoshizumi , Japanese shōgun (d. 1511 )March 2 – Franz von Sickingen , German knight (d. 1523 )March 7 – Baldassare Peruzzi , Italian architect and painter (d. 1536 )May 3 – Juana de la Cruz Vázquez Gutiérrez , Spanish abbess of the Franciscan Third Order Regular (d. 1534 )May 14 – Ruprecht of the Palatinate , German bishop (d. 1504 )July 1 – King Christian II of Denmark , Scandinavian monarch under the Kalmar Union (d. 1559 )[ 21] August 21 – Jorge de Lencastre, Duke of Coimbra (d. 1550 )August 28 – Francisco de Sá de Miranda , Portuguese poet (d. 1558 )[ 22] November 11 – Christoph von Scheurl , German writer (d. 1542 )December 18 – Sophie of Mecklenburg , Duchess of Mecklenburg, Duchess of Saxony (d. 1503 )December 27 – Casimir, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth , Margrave of Bayreuth (d. 1527 )date unknown
Deaths
Mehmed II, the Conqueror
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