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== Events ==
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=== January&ndash;December ===
* Spring &ndash; Multiple earthquakes occur near [[Mount Tai|Taishan]], [[Ming dynasty|China]].
* [[March 16]] &ndash; A solar eclipse crosses northern [[South America]] and [[Central Europe]].<ref>[http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEsearch/SEsearchmap.php?Ecl=14850316 NASA Eclipse site] Visited June 4, 2015</ref>
* [[June 1]] &ndash; [[Matthias Corvinus|Matthias]] of [[Kingdom of Hungary|Hungary]] [[Siege of Vienna (1485)|takes Vienna]], in his conquest of [[Archduchy of Austria|Austria]] (from [[Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor|Frederick III]]), and makes the city his [[Capital (political)|capital]].
* [[August 5]]&ndash;[[August 7|7]] &ndash; The first outbreak of [[sweating sickness]] in [[Kingdom of England|England]] begins.
* [[August 22]] &ndash; [[Battle of Bosworth]]: King [[Richard III of England]] is defeated by (rival claimant to the throne of [[England]]) [[Henry VII of England|Henry Tudor]], [[Earl of Richmond]]; Richard dies in battle, and Henry Tudor becomes King [[Henry VII of England]] (although Henry marks this battle as August 21, so that he can declare all his opponents traitors).
* [[September 12]] &ndash; [[Grand Duchy of Moscow|Muscovian]] forces conquer [[Tver]].
* [[September 15]] &ndash; [[Peter Arbues]] is assaulted while praying in the cathedral at [[Zaragoza]], [[Spain]]; he dies on September 17.  He had been appointed Inquisitor of Aragon by the Inquisitor General, [[Tomás de Torquemada]], in the campaign against heresy and crypto-Judaism.
* [[October 30]] &ndash; King Henry VII of England is crowned.
* [[November 2]] &ndash; The Peace of [[Bourges]] stops the [[Mad War]].

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* [[Leon Battista Alberti]]'s ''[[De Re Aedificatoria]]'' (written 1443&ndash;1452 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 [[:File:Leonardo da Vinci helicopter.jpg|aerial screw]] or [[helicopter]] (probably unworkable).<ref>{{cite book|first=Clive|last=Hart|title=The Dream of Flight: aeronautics from classical times to the Renaissance|location=New York|publisher=Winchester Press|year=1972}}</ref></onlyinclude>