1487

Year '1487' was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar).

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Events of 1487

Births

Deaths

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, 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).

★ 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.

Births

★ February 8 - Ulrich, Duke of Württemberg (died 1550)

★ April 10 - William I, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg (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''

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★ Amda Seyon II, Emperor of Ethiopia (died 1494)

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★ Magdalena de la Cruz, Franciscan nun of Cordova (died 1560)

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★ Fray Tomás de Berlanga, Bishop of Panama (died 1551)

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★ Piotr Gamrat, Polish Catholic archbishop (died 1545)

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★ Stanisław Kostka, Polish noble (died 1555)

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★ Pedro de Mendoza, Spanish conquistador (died 1537)

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★ Michael Stifel, German mathematician (died 1567)

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★ Giovanni da Udine, Italian painter (died 1564)

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★ Peter Vischer the Younger, German sculptor (died 1528)

Deaths

★ March 21 - Nicholas of Flue, Swiss hermit and saint (born 1417)

★ June 16 - John de la Pole, Earl of Lincoln (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, 1st Baron Dudley, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (born 1400)

★ October 22 - Antonio Bettini, religious writer (born 1396)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ William FitzAlan, 16th Earl of Arundel (born 1417)

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★ Antonio Angeraldo Inguanez, Maltese nobleman

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★ Tlacaelel, high priest of Tenochtitlán (born 1397)