Major Events
- Jan 30 Bell chimes invented
- May 24 Imposter Lambert Simnel ceremony crowned as King Edward VI in Dublin
- Jun 4 Lord Lovell and John de la Pole's army land at Furness, Lancashire
- Jun 16 Battle of Stoke Field, Nottinghamshire: English Tudor King Henry VII defeats the remaining Yorkists led by John de la Pole and Lord Lovell in the last battle of the Wars of the Roses
- Jul 24 Citizens of Leeuwarden, Netherlands, rebel against ban on foreign beer
- Nov 30 The first German Beer Purity Law (Reinheitsgebot), is promulgated in Munich by Albert IV, Duke of Bavaria stating beer should be brewed from only three ingredients – water, malt and hops
- Dec 19 Opening ceremony of the sixth Great Temple of Tenochtitlan (modern Mexico City) 4,000 prisoners of war are sacrificed to Aztec gods over four days [1]
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Who Died in 1487
- Mar 21 Nicholas of Flue, Swiss hermit and saint (b. 1417)
- Sep 9 Chenghua, Emperor of China, dies at 39
- Sep 30 John Sutton, 1st Baron Dudley, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1400)
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