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| Gregorian calendar | 1487 MCDLXXXVII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2240 |
| Armenian calendar | 936 ԹՎ ՋԼԶ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6237 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1408–1409 |
| Bengali calendar | 894 |
| Berber calendar | 2437 |
| English Regnal year | 2 Hen. 7 – 3 Hen. 7 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2031 |
| Burmese calendar | 849 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6995–6996 |
| Chinese calendar | 丙午年 (Fire Horse) 4184 or 3977 — to — 丁未年 (Fire Goat) 4185 or 3978 |
| Coptic calendar | 1203–1204 |
| Discordian calendar | 2653 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1479–1480 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5247–5248 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1543–1544 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1408–1409 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4587–4588 |
| Holocene calendar | 11487 |
| Igbo calendar | 487–488 |
| Iranian calendar | 865–866 |
| Islamic calendar | 891–893 |
| Japanese calendar | Bunmei 19 / Chōkyō 1 (長享元年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1403–1404 |
| Julian calendar | 1487 MCDLXXXVII |
| Korean calendar | 3820 |
| Minguo calendar | 425 before ROC 民前425年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 19 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2029–2030 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阳火马年 (male Fire-Horse) 1613 or 1232 or 460 — to — 阴火羊年 (female Fire-Goat) 1614 or 1233 or 461 |
Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man
Year 1487 (MCDLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) 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
- March 21 – Nicholas of Flüe, Swiss hermit and saint (b. 1417)
- May 27 – Tilokaraj, king of Lan Na (b. 1409)
- June 16 – John de la Pole, 1st Earl of Lincoln (b. c. 1463)[2]
- June 26 – John Argyropoulos, Greek philosopher
- July 16 – Charlotte, Queen of Cyprus (b. 1436)
- August 23 – Maria of Cleves, French noble (b. 1426)
- September 9 – Chenghua Emperor of China (b. 1447)
- September 14 – Mara Branković, Serbian princess (b. 1416)
- September 30 – John Sutton, 1st Baron Dudley, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1400)
- October 22 – Antonio Bettini, Italian religious writer (b. 1396)
- date unknown
- William FitzAlan, 16th Earl of Arundel (b. 1417)
- Tlacaelel, high priest of Tenochtitlán (b. 1398)
References
- ↑ Siobhán Marie Kilfeather; Siobhan Kilfeather (2005). Dublin: A Cultural History. Oxford University Press. p. 37. ISBN 978-0-19-518201-9.
- 1 2 A.H Burne (January 1, 2005). The Battlefields of England. Pen and Sword. p. 305. ISBN 978-1-84415-206-3.
- ↑ Irby, Beverly; Brown, Genevieve H.; LaraAiecio, Rafael; Jackson, Dr Shirley A. (2013). Handbook of Educational Theories. IAP. p. 47. ISBN 9781617358678.
- ↑ "Julius III | pope". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved May 3, 2019.
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