1487

1487 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1487
MCDLXXXVII
Ab urbe condita2240
Armenian calendar936
ԹՎ ՋԼԶ
Assyrian calendar6237
Balinese saka calendar1408–1409
Bengali calendar893–894
Berber calendar2437
English Regnal year2 Hen. 7 – 3 Hen. 7
Buddhist calendar2031
Burmese calendar849
Byzantine calendar6995–6996
Chinese calendar丙午年 (Fire Horse)
4184 or 3977
    — to —
丁未年 (Fire Goat)
4185 or 3978
Coptic calendar1203–1204
Discordian calendar2653
Ethiopian calendar1479–1480
Hebrew calendar5247–5248
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1543–1544
 - Shaka Samvat1408–1409
 - Kali Yuga4587–4588
Holocene calendar11487
Igbo calendar487–488
Iranian calendar865–866
Islamic calendar891–893
Japanese calendarBunmei 19 / Chōkyō 1
(長享元年)
Javanese calendar1403–1404
Julian calendar1487
MCDLXXXVII
Korean calendar3820
Minguo calendar425 before ROC
民前425年
Nanakshahi calendar19
Thai solar calendar2029–2030
Tibetan calendarམེ་ཕོ་རྟ་ལོ་
(male Fire-Horse)
1613 or 1232 or 460
    — to —
མེ་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་
(female Fire-Sheep)
1614 or 1233 or 461
Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man

Year 1487 (MCDLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

  • January 29 – Richard Foxe becomes Bishop of Exeter.
  • March – Sigismund, Archduke of Austria, largely on the poor advice of his counselors, declares war on Venice, and seizes silver mines in and around the Sugana Valley.
  • May 24 – Lambert Simnel is crowned King "Edward VI of England" in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, Ireland.[1] He claims to be Edward Plantagenet, 17th Earl of Warwick, and challenges Henry VII for the throne of England, where he lands on June 5.
  • 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.[2]
  • August – Bartolomeu Dias leaves Lisbon, on his voyage to the Cape of Good Hope.
  • August 13 – The Siege of Málaga (1487) ends, when the Spanish take the city.
  • September 9 – Hongzhi becomes Emperor of China (Ming Dynasty).
  • November 30 – Albert IV, Duke of Bavaria promulgates the Reinheitsgebot, specifying three ingredients – water, malt and hops – for the brewing of beer.

Date unknown

  • Afonso de Paiva and Pêro da Covilhã travel overland from Lisbon, in search of the Kingdom of Prester John (Ethiopia).
  • The witch-hunters' manual Malleus Maleficarum, written by Heinrich Kramer with Jacob Sprenger, is published at Speyer in the Holy Roman Empire.
  • Aztec emperor Ahuitzotl dedicates the Great Temple Pyramid of Tenochtitlán, with thousands of human sacrifices.
  • Italian architects work on the Moscow Kremlin.
  • Leonardo da Vinci creates his Vitruvian Man drawing (approximate date).[3]
  • Stockport Grammar School is founded, in the north of England.


Births

  • February 7 – Queen Dangyeong, Korean royal consort (d. 1557)
  • February 8 – Ulrich, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1550)
  • February 15 – Henry of the Palatinate, bishop of Utrecht (d. 1552)
  • April 10 – William I, Count of Nassau-Siegen (d. 1559)
  • July 5 – Johann Gramann, German theologian (d. 1541)
  • July 17 – Ismail I, Shah of Persia (d. 1524)
  • August 27 – Anna of Brandenburg, Duchess of Schleswig and Holstein (d. 1514)
  • September 10 – Pope Julius III (d. 1555)[4]
  • October 5 – Ludwig of Hanau-Lichtenberg, German nobleman (d. 1553)
  • November 14 – John III of Pernstein, Bohemian land-owner, Governor of Moravia and Count of Kladsko (d. 1548)
  • 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)

Deaths

References

  1. ^ Siobhán Marie Kilfeather; Siobhan Kilfeather (2005). Dublin: A Cultural History. Oxford University Press. p. 37. ISBN 978-0-19-518201-9.
  2. ^ a b A.H Burne (January 1, 2005). The Battlefields of England. Pen and Sword. p. 305. ISBN 978-1-84415-206-3.
  3. ^ Irby, Beverly; Brown, Genevieve H.; LaraAiecio, Rafael; Jackson, Dr Shirley A. (2013). Handbook of Educational Theories. IAP. p. 47. ISBN 9781617358678.
  4. ^ "Julius III | pope". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved May 3, 2019.