Battle of Bosworth Field
The last Plantagenet king dies in battle
On 22 August 1485 Richard III was killed charging Henry Tudor's position after Lord Stanley switched sides. The victor became Henry VII, founder of the Tudor dynasty; Richard's remains were found in 2012 under a car park in Leicester.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Eastern Europe & Russia
- c. 1469 Afanasy Nikitin's journey to India — 16 years earlier
- 1478 Annexation of Novgorod by Moscow — 7 years earlier
- 1480 Great Stand on the Ugra River — 5 years earlier
Middle East
- 1501 Founding of Safavid Iran — 16 years later
Africa
- 1488 Dias rounds the Cape of Good Hope — 3 years later
Asia
- 1467–1477 Ōnin War — 18 years earlier
- 1498 Vasco da Gama reaches India — 13 years later
- 1510 Portugal takes Goa — 25 years later
Americas
- 1492 Columbus reaches the Americas — 7 years later
- 1497 John Cabot reaches North America — 12 years later
Alive at the time
- Christopher Columbus (aged 34)
- Leonardo da Vinci (aged 33)
- Nicolaus Copernicus (aged 12)
- Michelangelo (aged 10)
- Martin Luther (aged 2)
- Ashikaga Yoshimasa (aged 49)
- Ivan III (aged 45)
- Isabella I of Castile (aged 34)
- Richard III (aged 33)
- Amerigo Vespucci (aged 31)