1485
Calendar year
Year 1485 (MCDLXXXV ) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar .
Events
January–December
Date unknown
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
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
probable
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.
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