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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 |
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. 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.
- August – Bartolomeu Dias leaves Lisbon on his voyage to the Cape of Good Hope.
- August 13 – End of the Siege of Málaga (1487), when the Spanish take Málaga.
- September 9 – Hongzhi becomes Emperor of China (Ming dynasty).
- November 30 – Albert IV, Duke of Bavaria promulgated 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).
- Stockport Grammar School 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-Dillenburg (d. 1559)
- July 5 – Johann Gramann, German theologian (d. 1541)
- July 16 – Andrea del Sarto, Italian painter (d. 1530)
- 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)
- 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)
- June 16 – John de la Pole, 1st Earl of Lincoln (b. c. 1463)
- June 26 – John Argyropoulos, philosopher
- July 16 – Charlotte, Queen of Cyprus (b. 1436)
- 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, religious writer (b. 1396)
- date unknown
- William FitzAlan, 16th Earl of Arundel (b. 1417)
- Tlacaelel, high priest of Tenochtitlán (b. 1397)