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== Events == <onlyinclude> === 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.<ref name="KilfeatherKilfeather2005">{{cite book|author1=Siobhán Marie Kilfeather|author2=Siobhan Kilfeather|title=Dublin: A Cultural History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8QWZRVAPa6sC&pg=PA37|year=2005|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-518201-9|pages=37}}</ref> He claims to be [[Edward Plantagenet, 17th Earl of Warwick]], and challenges [[Henry VII of England|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.<ref name="Burne2005">{{cite book|author=A.H Burne|title=The Battlefields of England|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WTDAAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA305|date=1 January 2005|publisher=Pen and Sword|isbn=978-1-84415-206-3|pages=305}}</ref> * [[August]] – [[Bartolomeu Dias]] leaves Lisbon, on his voyage to the [[Cape of Good Hope]]. * [[August 13]] – The [[Siege of Málaga (1487)]] ends, when the Spanish take the city. * [[September 9]] – [[Hongzhi Emperor|Hongzhi]] becomes Emperor of China ([[Ming Dynasty]]). * [[November 30]] – [[Albert IV, Duke of Bavaria]] promulgates 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-hunt]]ers' 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'').<ref>{{cite book |last1=Irby |first1=Beverly |last2=Brown |first2=Genevieve H. |last3=LaraAiecio |first3=Rafael |last4=Jackson |first4=Dr Shirley A. |title=Handbook of Educational Theories |date=2013 |publisher=IAP |isbn=9781617358678 |page=47 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=awIoDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA47|language=en}}</ref> * [[Stockport Grammar School]] is founded, in the north of [[Kingdom of England|England]]. </onlyinclude>
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