1487

1487 (MCDLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1487th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 487th year of the 2nd millennium, the 87th year of the 15th century, and the 8th year of the 1480s decade. As of the start of 1487, the Gregorian calendar was 9 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

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

Events

• August – Bartolomeu Dias leaves Lisbon on his voyage to the Cape of Good Hope.

Date unknown

• Aztec emperor Ahuitzotl dedicates the Great Temple Pyramid of Tenochtitlan with thousands of human sacrifices.

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)

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)