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1485| 1100–1532 | South America [administration] | The Inca empire dominates the Andes region of South America. Its population numbers as many as 12 million. Incan society is based on a strict hierarchy, with an emperor who rules with absolute power. Their religion is based on sun-worship, and they are skilled builders who create a system of roads and irrigation. | | c. 1485 | Italy [painting] | The Italian artist Sandro Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano dei Filipepi) paints The Birth of Venus. | | 14 January 1485 | France [revolution] | The Duke of Orléans (the future Louis XII) and Duke Francis II of Brittany lead a coalition of French magnates in defiance of the regent, Anne of Beaujeu, and supporting the rights of the Estates General. Thus begins la Guerre Folle (the ‘Mad War’). | | 1 June 1485 | Holy Roman Empire, Austria, Hungary [wars] | The burghers of Vienna, Austria, surrender their city to the besieging army of Matthias I Corvinus, King of Hungary. Frederick III the Holy Roman Emperor loses his capital, as he has already lost much of his territory in the duchies of Austria, Styria, and Carinthia. | | 15 September 1485 | Poland-Lithuania, Moldavia, Holy Roman Empire, Ottoman Empire [wars] | During a campaign against the Ottoman and Tatar forces advancing along the Black Sea coast, King Casimir (Kazimierz) IV of Poland receives the homage of the voivod of Moldavia, Stephen III the Great. | | 22 September 1485 | France [law and government] | Louis, Duke of Orléans and heir to the French throne, submits to the French regent Anne of Beaujeu, ending the noble rebellion known as la Guerre Folle (the ‘Mad War’). |
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