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Year 1487 was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.
Events of 1487
* Richard Foxe becomes Bishop of Exeter.
* March - Archduke Sigismund of Austria, largely on the poor advice of his councillors, 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.
* September 9 - Hongzhi becomes emperor of China (Ming dynasty).
* Publication of the witch-hunter manual Malleus Maleficarum.
* Aztec emperor Auitzotl dedicates Great Temple Pyramid of Tenochtitlán with thousands of human sacrifices.
* Spanish take Málaga.
* Italian architects begin to build the Kremlin in Moscow.
So... you told us about 1487 in 1489. WHat’s the goods on 1451? *\;-)
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