1487
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| Centuries: | 14th century - 15th century - 16th century |
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| Years: | 1484 1485 1486 - 1487 - 1488 1489 1490 |
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Year 1487 (MCDLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
[edit] Events of 1487
- January 29 - Richard Foxe becomes Bishop of Exeter.
- March - Archduke Sigismund of Austria, largely on the poor advice of his councillors, declares war on Venice and seizes silver mines in and around the Valsugana Valley.
- May 24 - Lambert Simnel is crowned King "Edward VI of England" in Christchurch Cathedral, Dublin, Ireland. He claims to be Edward, Earl of Warwick and challenges Henry VII for the throne of England.
- June 16 - Battle of Stoke Field: The rebellion of pretender Lambert Simnel, led by John de la Pole, Earl of Lincoln, and Francis Lovell, 1st Viscount Lovell, is crushed by troops loyal to Henry VII.
- August - Bartolomeu Dias leaves Lisbon on his voyage to the Cape of Good Hope.
- September 9 - Hongzhi becomes Emperor of China (Ming dynasty).
- The witch-hunter manual Malleus Maleficarum is published.
- Aztec emperor Auitzotl dedicates the Great Temple Pyramid of Tenochtitlán with thousands of human sacrifices.
- The Spanish take Málaga.
- Italian architects begin to build the Kremlin in Moscow.
| Gregorian calendar | 1487 MCDLXXXVII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2240 |
| Armenian calendar | 936 ԹՎ ՋԼԶ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -357 – -356 |
| Berber calendar | 2437 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2031 |
| Burmese calendar | 849 |
| Chinese calendar | 4123/4183-12-7 (丙午年十二月初七日) — to —
4124/4184-12-17(丁未年十二月十七日) |
| Coptic calendar | 1203 – 1204 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1479 – 1480 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5247 – 5248 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1542 – 1543 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1409 – 1410 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4588 – 4589 |
| Holocene calendar | 11487 |
| Iranian calendar | 865 – 866 |
| Islamic calendar | 891 – 893 |
| Japanese calendar | Bunmei 19Chōkyō 1 (長享元年) |
| Korean calendar | 3820 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2030 |
[edit] Births
- February 8 - Ulrich, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1550)
- April 10 - William I, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg (d. 1559)
- July 16 - Andrea del Sarto, Italian painter (d. 1531)
- July 17 - Ismail I, Shah of Persia (d. 1524)
- September 10 - Pope Julius III (d. 1555)
- date unknown
- Amda Seyon II, Emperor of Ethiopia (d. 1494)
- Magdalena de la Cruz, Franciscan nun of Cordova (d. 1560)
- Fray Tomás de Berlanga, Bishop of Panama (d. 1551)
- Piotr Gamrat, Polish Catholic archbishop (d. 1545)
- Stanisław Kostka, Polish noble (d. 1555)
- Pedro de Mendoza, Spanish conquistador (d. 1537)
- Michael Stifel, German mathematician (d. 1567)
- Giovanni da Udine, Italian painter (d. 1564)
- Peter Vischer the Younger, German sculptor (d. 1528)
[edit] Deaths
- March 21 - Nicholas of Flue, Swiss hermit and saint (b. 1417)
- June 16 - John de la Pole, Earl of Lincoln (b. c. 1463)
- June 26 - John Argyropoulos, philosopher
- July 16 - Charlotte of Cyprus, daughter of John II of Cyprus (b. 1436)
- September 9 - Chenghua Emperor of China (b. 1447)
- September 30 - John Sutton, 1st Baron Dudley, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1400)
- October 22 - Antonio Bettini, religious writer (b. 1396)
- date unknown
- William FitzAlan, 16th Earl of Arundel (b. 1417)
- Antonio Angeraldo Inguanez, Maltese nobleman
- Tlacaelel, high priest of Tenochtitlán (b. 1397)
