What is 1487?
{{Year nav|1487}} {{Year in various calendars|1487}} {{Year article header|1487}} ==Events== * August &ndash; [[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]] &ndash; [[Queen Dangyeong]], Korean royal consort (d. [[1557]]) * [[February 8]] &ndash; [[Ulrich, Duke of Württemberg]] (d. [[1550]]) * [[February 15]] &ndash; [[Henry of the Palatinate]], bishop of Utrecht (d. [[1552]]) * [[April 10]] &ndash; [[William I, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg]] (d. [[1559]]) * [[July 5]] &ndash; [[Johann Gramann]], German theologian (d. [[1541]]) * [[July 16]] &ndash; [[Andrea del Sarto]], Italian painter (d. [[1530]]) * [[July 17]] &ndash; [[Ismail I]], [[Safavid dynasty|Shah of Persia]] (d. [[1524]]) * [[August 27]] &ndash; [[Anna of Brandenburg]], Duchess of Schleswig and Holstein (d. [[1514]]) * [[September 10]] &ndash; [[Pope Julius III]] (d. [[1555]]) * [[October 5]] &ndash; [[Ludwig of Hanau-Lichtenberg]], German nobleman (d. [[1553]]) * [[November 14]] &ndash; [[John III of Pernstein]], Bohemian land-owner, Governor of Moravia and Count of Kladsko (d. [[1548]]) == Deaths == * [[March 21]] &ndash; [[Nicholas of Flüe]], Swiss hermit and saint (b. [[1417]]) * [[June 16]] &ndash; [[John de la Pole, 1st Earl of Lincoln]] (b. c. [[1463]]) * [[June 26]] &ndash; [[John Argyropoulos]], philosopher * [[July 16]] &ndash; [[Charlotte, Queen of Cyprus]] (b. [[1436]]) * [[September 9]] &ndash; [[Chenghua Emperor]] of [[China]] (b. [[1447]]) * [[September 14]] &ndash; [[Mara Branković]], Serbian princess (b. [[1416]]) * [[September 30]] &ndash; [[John Sutton, 1st Baron Dudley]], Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. [[1400]]) * [[October 22]] &ndash; [[Antonio Bettini]], religious writer (b. [[1396]]) * ''date unknown'' ** [[William FitzAlan, 16th Earl of Arundel]] (b. [[1417]]) ** [[Tlacaelel]], high priest of Tenochtitlán (b. [[1397]]) [[Cat