History
1481
General
Population: 444 Million*
- Entertainment: Art includes Frescoes painted in the Sistine chapel in Rome by Botticelli, Ghirlandajo, Perugino, Pinturicchio and Signorelli
Verrocchio creates the statue of Bartholomeo Colleoni in Venice
- Deaths: Ottoman founder Mohammed II,
Africa
- Quake and tsunami at Cape Santa Cruz off Africa
Europe
- Italian States: Frescoes painted in the Sistine chapel in Rome by Botticelli, Ghirlandajo, Perugino, Pinturicchio and Signorelli
- Spain: Beginning of the Spanish Inquisition under joint direction of church and state
Middle East
- Ottoman Empire: Death of Mohammed II Sultan of the Turks – Bajazet II rules