1487
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Template:C15YearInTopicX Year 1487 was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar).
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[edit] Events of 1487
- 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, Ireland. He claims to be Edward 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, and Francis 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).
- Publication of the witch-hunter manual Malleus Maleficarum.
- Aztec emperor Auitzotl dedicates Great Temple Pyramid of Tenochtitlán with thousands of human sacrifices.
- Spanish take Málaga.
- Italian architects begin to build the Kremlin in Moscow.
| Gregorian calendar | 1487 MCDLXXXVII
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| Ab urbe condita | 2240 |
| Armenian calendar | 936 ԹՎ ՋԼԶ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -357 – -356 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2031 |
| 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
19
— changed to — Chōkyō
1
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| - Imperial Year | Kōki 2147 (皇紀2147年) |
| Julian calendar | 1532 |
| Korean calendar | 3820 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2030 |
[edit] Births
- February 8 - Ulrich (died 1550)
- April 10 - William I (died 1559)
- July 16 - Andrea del Sarto, Italian painter (died 1531)
- July 17 - Ismail I, Shah of Persia (d. 1524)
- September 10 - Pope Julius III (died 1555)
- date unknown
- Amda Seyon II, Emperor of Ethiopia (died 1494)
- Magdalena de la Cruz, Franciscan nun of Cordova (died 1560)
- Fray Tomás de Berlanga, Bishop of Panama (died 1551)
- Piotr Gamrat, Polish Catholic archbishop (died 1545)
- Stanisław Kostka, Polish noble (died 1555)
- Pedro de Mendoza, Spanish conquistador (died 1537)
- Michael Stifel, German mathematician (died 1567)
- Giovanni da Udine, Italian painter (died 1564)
- Peter Vischer the Younger, German sculptor (died 1528)
[edit] Deaths
- March 21 - Nicholas of Flue, Swiss hermit and saint (born 1417)
- June 16 - John de la Pole (born c1463)
- June 26 - John Argyropoulos, philosopher
- July 16 - Charlotte of Cyprus, daughter of John II of Cyprus (born 1436)
- September 9 - Chenghua Emperor of China (born 1447)
- September 30 - John Sutton, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (born 1400)
- October 22 - Antonio Bettini, religious writer (born 1396)
- date unknown
- William FitzAlan (born 1417)
- Antonio Angeraldo Inguanez, Maltese nobleman
- Tlacaelel, high priest of Tenochtitlán (born 1397)
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