1487

July 9: Russia conquers the Khanate of Kazan.
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

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

Events

January–March

April–June

  • April 27 – In Spain, the town of Vélez in Muslim Granada becomes the first conquest by the invasion by Christian Castile and Aragon, surrendering after 10 days.[7]
  • May 7 –
    • After failed attempts by King Ferdinand of Aragon to negotiate Granada's surrender of the city of Malaqa, the siege of Málaga begins, with the Granadan General Hamet el Zegri defending against a larger contingent of Aragonese and Castilian troops. At the same time, the Spanish fleet blocks the harbor and all access to Malaga from the sea. The city surrenders after three months.[7]
    • The Kingdom of Portugal dispatches Pêro da Covilhã and Afonso de Paiva across Europe and Africa to inquire about a sea route to India, as well as to inquire about the enigmatic Prester John. Covilha reaches Ethiopia but is not allowed to leave, while de Paiva is never heard from again.[8]
  • May 24 – Lambert Simnel, a supporter of the late King Richard III who is leading a rebellion against King Henry VII, is crowned King "Edward VI of England" in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, Ireland.[9] 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.
  • May 18 – The army of the Grand Principality of Moscow begins the siege of Kazan as troops led by Daniil Kholmsky after a dispute begins over the succession to the throne of the Khanate of Kazan.[10]
  • May 19 – The witch-hunters' manual Malleus Maleficarum, written by Heinrich Kramer with Jacob Sprenger, is approved by Catholic theologians from the University of Cologne and at Speyer in the Holy Roman Empire. The preface states that all readers should know that "in the year since the Birth of Our Lord 1487, in the fifth indiction, on Saturday, the 19th day of May, at five in the afternoon or thereabouts," professors Henricus Institoris and Jacobus Sprenger certified the text on behalf of Pope Innocent VIII. The preface notes that although some preachers of the Word of God claim in sermons "that sorceresses do not exist", the authors' intention is "to alleviate this ignorance" and to "exterminate the sorceresses" by "appropriate methods of sentencing."[11]
  • May 27 – At Chiang Mai, in what is now part of northern Thailand, King of Lan Na, Prince Yotchiangrai becomes the new reigning monarch upon the death of his father, King Tilokaraj.[12]
  • June 5 – The rebel army led by Lambert Simnel, who has proclaimed himself as "King Edward VI" lands on Piel Island at Lancashire.[13]
  • June 16 – At the Battle of Stoke Field: the army of the 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.[14]
  • June 19 – French–Breton War: The siege of the city of Nantes in the Duchy of Brittany is started by King Charles VIII of France, but fails after less than two months and is lifted on August 6.[15]

July–September

October–December

  • October 1 – Royal assent is given by King James III of Scotland to acts passed by the Scottish Parliament, including the Royal Burghs Act 1487 (requiring annual meetings of the commissioners of Scotland's town governments); the annexation of Lochmaben Castle; the Sea Fishing Act (regulating the herring industry); and the Goods of Convicts Act (allowing the confiscation of possessions of persons arrested for trespassing).
  • November 9 – The second parliament of King Henry VII assembles at Westminster with John Mondurant as Speaker of the House of Commons. The parliament lasts for slightly more than five weeks.
  • November 30 – Albert IV, Duke of Bavaria promulgates the Reinheitsgebot, specifying three ingredients – water, malt and hops – for the brewing of beer.
  • December 8 – Bartolomeu Dias and his crew, sailing southward along the African coast in the caravels São Cristóvão and São Pantaleão arrive at what is now Namibia's Walvis Bay, which Dias calls O Golfo de Santa Maria da Conceição.[23][24]
  • December 16 – The war between Hungary and Austria is ended with an armistice signed at Sankt Pölten between Duke Albert III of Saxony (on behalf of the Holy Roman Empire) and Hungary's King Matthias Corvinus.[25]
  • December 18 – The second parliament of King Henry VII is dissolved in England after 39 days.
  • December 19 – (7 Panquetzaliztli of the year 8 acatl) During the reign of the Mexican Aztec Emperor Ahuitzotl, the Temple of Huitzilopochtli, sixth in a series is completed and dedicated in Tenochtitlan to the Aztec god of war.[26]
  • December 31 – Pope Innocent VIII establishes the office of the Secretary of State of the Vatican by approving the apostolic constitution Non Debet Reprehensibile, with 24 apostolic secretaries, the most important being the Secretarius Domesticus.[27]

Date unknown


Births

Deaths

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