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Year 1487 ( MCDLXXXVII ) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
The 1460s decade ran from January 1, 1460, to December 31, 1469.
The 1470s decade ran from January 1, 1470, to December 31, 1479.
The 1480s decade ran from January 1, 1480, to December 31, 1489.
The 1500s ran from January 1, 1500, to December 31, 1509.
Year 1555 (MDLV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.
The 1550s decade ran from January 1, 1550, to December 31, 1559.
The 1440s decade ran from January 1, 1440, to December 31, 1449.
The 1420s decade ran from January 1, 1420, to December 31, 1429.
The 1410s decade ran from January 1, 1410, to December 31, 1419.
The 1390s was a decade of the Julian Calendar which began on January 1, 1390, and ended on December 31, 1399.
Year 1508 (MDVIII) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.
Year 1502 (MDII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.
Year 1397 (MCCCXCVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.
Year 1417 (MCDXVII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar.
Year 1427 (MCDXXVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar.
The Battle of Stoke Field on 16 June 1487 may be considered the last battle of the Wars of the Roses, since it was the last major engagement between contenders for the throne whose claims derived from descent from the houses of Lancaster and York respectively. The Battle of Bosworth Field, two years previously, had established King Henry VII on the throne, ending the last period of Yorkist rule and initiating that of the Tudors. The Battle of Stoke Field was the decisive engagement in an attempt by leading Yorkists to unseat him in favour of the pretender Lambert Simnel.
Lambert Simnel was a pretender to the throne of England. In 1487, his claim to be Edward Plantagenet, 17th Earl of Warwick, threatened the newly established reign of Henry VII (1485–1509). Simnel became the figurehead of a Yorkist rebellion organised by John de la Pole, Earl of Lincoln. The rebellion was crushed in 1487. Simnel was pardoned because of his tender years, and was thereafter employed by the Royal household as a scullion, and, later, as a falconer.
John de la Pole, 1st Earl of Lincoln was a leading figure in the Yorkist aristocracy during the Wars of the Roses.
Events from the 1480s in England. This decade marks the beginning of the Tudor period.
John Payne, Bishop of Meath, held that office from 1483 until his death in 1506; he was also Master of the Rolls in Ireland. He is best remembered for his part in the coronation of Lambert Simnel, the pretender to the Crown of England, in 1487.