Year 1485 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events January–December. Spring – Multiple earthquakes occur near Taishan, China. March 16 – A solar eclipse crosses northern South America and Central Europe. June 1 …

Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro Altamirano, 1st Marquess of the Valley of Oaxaca (/ k ɔːr ˈ t ɛ s /; Spanish: [eɾˈnaŋ koɾˈtez ðe monˈroj i piˈθaro altamiˈɾano]; 1485 – December 2, 1547) was a Spanish conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of what is now mainland Mexico under the rule of the King of Castile in ...

The Battle of Bosworth or Bosworth Field was the last significant battle of the Wars of the Roses, the civil war between the Houses of Lancaster and York that extended across England in the latter half of the 15th century. Fought on Monday 22 August 1485, the battle was won by an alliance of Lancastrians and disaffected Yorkists. Their leader Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond, became the …

The history of Cornwall goes back to the Paleolithic, but in this period Cornwall only had sporadic visits by groups of humans.Continuous occupation started around 10,000 years ago after the end of the last ice age.When recorded history started in the first century BCE, the spoken language was Common Brittonic, and that would develop into Southwestern Brittonic and then the …

Leonardo da Vinci, properly named Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (Leonardo, son of ser Piero from Vinci), was born on 15 April 1452 in, or close to, the Tuscan hill town of Vinci; Florence was 20 miles away. He was born out of wedlock to Ser Piero da Vinci [] (Ser Piero di Antonio di Ser Piero di Ser Guido da Vinci; 1426–1504), a Florentine legal notary, and Caterina [] (c. 1434 – …

Anne Neville (11 June 1456 – 16 March 1485) was Queen of England as the wife of King Richard III.She was the younger of the two daughters and co-heiresses of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick (the "Kingmaker"). Before her marriage to Richard, she had been Princess of Wales as the wife of Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales, the only son and heir apparent of King Henry VI.

Forced labour, or unfree labour, is any work relation, especially in modern or early modern history, in which people are employed against their will with the threat of destitution, detention, violence including death, or other forms of extreme hardship to either themselves or members of their families.. Unfree labour includes all forms of slavery, penal labour and the corresponding ...

Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro Altamirano (Marqués del Valle de Oaxaca) – der Vorname wird mitunter mit Hernando oder Fernando angegeben, der Nachname auch mit Cortez wiedergegeben – (* 1485 in Medellín; † 2. Dezember 1547 in Castilleja de la Cuesta) war ein spanischer Konquistador.Mit Hilfe seiner indianischen Verbündeten eroberte er das …

Giovanni da Verrazzano (/ ˌ v ɛr ə ˈ z ɑː n oʊ,-ə t ˈ s ɑː-/ VERR-ə-ZAH-noh, -⁠ət-SAH-, Italian: [dʒoˈvanni da (v)verratˈtsaːno], often misspelled Verrazano in English; 1485–1528) was an Italian explorer of North America, in the service of King Francis I of France.. He is renowned as the first European to explore the Atlantic coast of North America between Florida and New ...

John is a common English name and surname: . John (given name) John (surname) John may also refer to: . New Testament Works. Johannine literature. Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John; Johannine epistles. First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John; Second Epistle of John, often shortened to 2 John; Third Epistle of John, often shortened to 3 John; Book of …