485

Year 485 (CDLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Memmius without colleague (or, less frequently, year 1238 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 485 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	4th century 5th century 6th century
Decades:	460s 470s 480s 490s 500s
Years:	482 483 484 485 486 487 488

485 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	485 CDLXXXV
Ab urbe condita	1238
Assyrian calendar	5235
Balinese saka calendar	406–407
Bengali calendar	−108
Berber calendar	1435
Buddhist calendar	1029
Burmese calendar	−153
Byzantine calendar	5993–5994
Chinese calendar	甲子年 (Wood Rat) 3182 or 2975     — to — 乙丑年 (Wood Ox) 3183 or 2976
Coptic calendar	201–202
Discordian calendar	1651
Ethiopian calendar	477–478
Hebrew calendar	4245–4246
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	541–542
- Shaka Samvat	406–407
- Kali Yuga	3585–3586
Holocene calendar	10485
Iranian calendar	137 BP – 136 BP
Islamic calendar	141 BH – 140 BH
Javanese calendar	371–372
Julian calendar	485 CDLXXXV
Korean calendar	2818
Minguo calendar	1427 before ROC 民前1427年
Nanakshahi calendar	−983
Seleucid era	796/797 AG
Thai solar calendar	1027–1028
Tibetan calendar	阳木鼠年 (male Wood-Rat) 611 or 230 or −542     — to — 阴木牛年 (female Wood-Ox) 612 or 231 or −541

Events

By place

Britannia

• Aelle of Sussex, king of the South Saxons, fights the Britons at the stream of Mercredesburne. The battle ends in a draw (according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle).
• Period of Arthur's "twelve battles", during which he gains reputation for invincibility (approximate date).

Asia

• Emperor Xiaowen institutes an "equal-field" system of agriculture (juntian), assigning each peasant family about 19 acres (140 mu) of land. The land will be part minority divided by the farmer to be kept indefinitely and rest will revert to the state if the farmer dies or retires. The population is then divided by each other with the role of supervising one another. The result of this reform is that farmers mostly did not sell their holdings to large landowners. This provided the fiscal basis for the formation of the Sui and Tang dynasties.
• Prince Kenzō succeeds his adoptive father Seinei, and becomes the 23rd emperor of Japan.

By topic

Religion

• Peter the Fuller, patriarch of Antioch, is condemned and excommunicated by a synod of Western bishops at Rome.

Births

• Cassiodorus, Roman statesman and writer (approximate date)
• Samson of Dol, bishop and saint (approximate date)

Deaths

• April 17 – Proclus, Greek Neoplatonist philosopher (b. 412)
• Abraham of Clermont, abbot and saint (approximate date)
• Asclepigenia, Athenian philosopher and mystic (b. 430)
• Fincath mac Garrchu, king of Leinster