- 1487
Year 1487 (MCDLXXXVII) was a
common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of theJulian calendar .Events of 1487
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January 29 -Richard Foxe becomesBishop of Exeter .
* March - Archduke Sigismund of Austria, largely on the poor advice of his councillors, declares war onVenice and seizes silver mines in and around theValsugana Valley.
*May 24 -Lambert Simnel is crowned King "Edward VI of England" inChristchurch Cathedral, Dublin ,Ireland . He claims to beEdward, Earl of Warwick and challenges Henry VII for the throne ofEngland .
*June 16 -Battle of Stoke Field : The rebellion of pretenderLambert Simnel , led byJohn de la Pole, Earl of Lincoln , andFrancis Lovell, 1st Viscount Lovell , is crushed by troops loyal to Henry VII.
* August -Bartolomeu Dias leaves Lisbon on his voyage to theCape of Good Hope .
*September 9 -Hongzhi becomes Emperor ofChina (Ming dynasty ).
* Thewitch-hunt er manual "Malleus Maleficarum " is published.
*Aztec emperorAuitzotl dedicates the Great Temple Pyramid ofTenochtitlán with thousands of human sacrifices.
* The Spanish takeMálaga .
* Italian architects begin to buildthe Kremlin inMoscow .Births
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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 )Deaths
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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 ofJohn 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 )
**Tlacaelel , high priest of Tenochtitlán (b.1397 )
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