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political events
human rights, social justice
exploration, colonization
religion
architecture, real estate

political events

A pretender to the English throne gains support from Margaret, duchess of Burgundy and sister of the late Edward IV. The 10-year-old imposter Lambert Simnel impersonates the 10-year-old earl of Warwick, a son of the duke of Clarence, who is imprisoned in the Tower of London. Simnel's supporters crown him Edward VI in Dublin Cathedral and he lands in Lancashire with a force of poorly armed Irish levies and German mercenaries. The earl of Lincoln and the Swiss mercenary Martin Schwartz command a force of 8,000 men to oppose the king, but Henry VII commands an army of 12,000 that includes John de Vere, 13th earl of Oxford, and defeats the rebels at Stoke in Nottinghamshire June 16, losing 3,000 as compared to 4,000 rebel dead, including Lincoln and Schwartz. Henry VII pardons young Simnel, and he will become a falconer to the king after a period as scullery boy (see Perkin Warbeck, 1494).

human rights, social justice

The Star Chamber introduced under another name by England's Henry VII gives defendants no right to know the names of their accusers. The king moves toward royal absolutism.

exploration, colonization

Portuguese navigator Bartolomeu Dias, 37, leaves Lisbon with two caravels and a storeship. A storm drives his fleet around Africa's southernmost tip, which he names the Cape of Storms (see Cape of Good Hope, 1488).

Portugal's João II sends explorer Pedro de Covilhão, 37, to the Levant in search of spices and the legendary land Prester John mentioned by Fra Maruo in 1459. Covilhão will cross the Red and Arabian seas to India, visit Madagascar, and send home word from Cairo that if ships can round southern Africa they will find pilots who can guide them to India (see 1497).

religion

Pope Innocent VIII names Tomas de Torquemada grand inquisitor (see 1483); Torquemada's Inquisition introduces sadistic instruments of torture that include the strappado (which yanks arms from their sockets), the asli (which forces water down the victim's gullet until his stomach bursts), and the auto da fe (which chars the victim's flesh). Torquemada employs an ideology based on the limpieza, a purity-of-blood doctrine which states that having even one Jewish ancestor stigmatizes a person and makes him liable to persecution (see Nuremberg laws, 1935). The Spanish Inquisition will continue until 1834 (see 1492).

architecture, real estate

Venice's Palazzo Dario is completed on the Grand Canal for Giovanni Dario, Venetian secretary to Constantinople.

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

Events of 1487

1487 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar 1487
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Ab urbe condita 2240
Armenian calendar 936
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Bahá'í calendar -357 – -356
Berber calendar 2437
Buddhist calendar 2031
Burmese calendar 849
Byzantine calendar 6995 – 6996
Chinese calendar 丙午年十二月初七日
(4123/4183-12-7)
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丁未年十二月十七日
(4124/4184-12-17)
Coptic calendar 1203 – 1204
Ethiopian calendar 1479 – 1480
Hebrew calendar 5247 – 5248
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat 1542 – 1543
 - Shaka Samvat 1409 – 1410
 - Kali Yuga 4588 – 4589
Holocene calendar 11487
Iranian calendar 865 – 866
Islamic calendar 891 – 893
Japanese calendar Bunmei 19Chōkyō 1
(長享元年)
Korean calendar 3820
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