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

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1487 in poetry

1487 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar	1487 MCDLXXXVII
Ab urbe condita	2240
Armenian calendar	936 ԹՎ ՋԼԶ
Assyrian calendar	6237
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) 4183 or 4123 — to — 丁未年 (Fire Goat) 4184 or 4124
Coptic calendar	1203–1204
Discordian calendar	2653
Ethiopian calendar	1479–1480
Hebrew calendar	5247–5248
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1543–1544
- Shaka Samvat	1409–1410
- Kali Yuga	4588–4589
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)
Julian calendar	1487 MCDLXXXVII
Korean calendar	3820
Minguo calendar	425 before ROC 民前425年
Thai solar calendar	2029–2030

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Leonardo Da Vinchi'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 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.
August 13 – End of the Siege of Malaga (1487), when the Spanish take Málaga.
September 9 – Hongzhi becomes Emperor of China (Ming dynasty).
30 November – Albert IV, Duke of Bavaria promulgated the Reinheitsgebot, specifying three ingredients – water, malt and hops – for the brewing of beer.

Afonso de Paiva and Pero 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 James Sprenger, is published at Speyer in the Holy Roman Empire.
Aztec emperor Auitzotl 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).
Stockport Grammar School founded in the north of England.

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)