1487

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1450s 1460s 1470s – 1480s – 1490s 1500s 1510s
Years:	1484 1485 1486 – 1487 – 1488 1489 1490

1487 in topic:
Subjects: Archaeology – Architecture –
Art – Literature – Music – Science
Leaders: State leaders – Colonial governors
Category: Establishments – Disestablishments
Births – Deaths – Works

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

Events of 1487

January 29 – Richard Foxe becomes Bishop of Exeter.
March – Archduke Sigismund of Austria, largely on the poor advice of his counselors, 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.
Afonso de Paiva and Pero da Covilhã traveled overland from Lisbon in search of the Kingdom of Prester John. (Ethiopia)
September 9 – Hongzhi becomes Emperor of China (Ming dynasty).
The witch-hunter manual Malleus Maleficarum is published.
Aztec emperor Auitzotl dedicates the Great Temple Pyramid of Tenochtitlán with thousands of human sacrifices.
The Spanish take Málaga.
Italian architects begin to build the Kremlin in Moscow.

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 of John 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)