1487

This page relates to the year 1487 Calendrier Julien.

Events

Forwarding of the Portuguese Dulmo and Estreito, which wants to discover the legendary island of Antilia in the Atlantic. They set sail towards the the Azores, but run up against the strong winds of West and give up.

August: Beginning of the forwarding of the Portuguese Bartolomeu Dias. It doubles the Cape of Good Hope in 1488 and recognizes the coasts of the Mozambique.

Portuguese Dom Pero de Covilha and Alfonso de Paiva, left the the Mediterranean, arrives to Aden. Covilha gains the India, the Perse, then returns by Ormuz. It pushes beyond the Zambezi, until Sofala, to 2000 km of the Cape (1487 - 1490). It turns over to the Cairo where two emissary Juifs envoys by Jean II of Portugal, order to him to meet the Prêtre Jean. It reaches the Ethiopia where it meets Négus and passes to its service (1493). It remains in Abyssinie until its death towards 1545.

September 22nd: Beginning of the reign of Hongzhi, emperor Ming of China (fine in 1505).

May 27th: The pope orders the lifting of troops for the crusade against the Turks.
July 9th: Ivan III of Moscow Mehmet-Amin place with the head of the khanat of Kazan and obtains a Serment of allegiance.
July 22nd: Dictatorship of Pandolfo Petrucci with His (fine in 1512).
August 19th, War of Grenade: the Kings Catholiques seize Málaga.

Mathias Corvin seizes Wiener Neustadt, residence of the emperor who must take refuge with Linz.
Jean Corvin, wire illegitimate of Mathias Corvin, wife by procuration Bianca Maria Sforza, the girl of the duke of Milan Ludovico it Moro.
Establishment of the the Holy Office in Sicily.

January 11th: Louis II of Orleans flees once again in Brittany.
February-March: Anne de Beaujeu and Charles VIII leads a campaign in South-west and subjects the zone of Sainte to Bordeaux and of Bayonne to Parthenay. The count rebels of Angouleme wife Louise of Savoy (1490).
Mars: An about sixty noble Breton call upon Anne de Beaujeu to drive out the advisers of the duke François II of Brittany. 12 000 men enter to Brittany.
April 29th: Although the Parlement of Toulouse supported with strength the cause of Cahors and Montauban, a stop of the Conseil of the king restores the secondary jurisdictions of the Sénéchaussée of Quercy, which had been removed three years before.
June 15th - August 6th: Sit of Nantes by Charles VIII.
July 22nd: The Large fire of Bourges, still called Large fire of the Madeleine , destroyed one the third of the city and mark the beginning of the decline of the capital of the Berry.
August 6th: failure of the French to the seat of Nantes.

May 24th: Missed attempt at coup d'etat de Lambert Simmel in England against Henri Tudor. John of the Pole, count de Lincoln, unloads in Ireland to support it.
June 16th: John of the Pole east demolishes and killed with the Bataille of Stoke.

Creation of the spangled Room ( Star Chamber ), which makes it possible to judge quickly and without call the noble culprits of attacks against public peace.
Lord Lovell is condemned to died and carried out for plot (maintains an army deprived in the Yorkshire). Its goods are confiscated with the profit of the crown.

Malleus malleficarum , of Henrich Institoris and Jacob Sprenger, on the wizards and had.
Orlando innamorato (Roland in love), poem epic of the adventures of unfinished Roland left by the Italian poet Matteo Maria Boiardo. The Arioste will take again the poem in 1516 to write its furious Roland .
the dignity of the man , Peak of Mirandole.
Bible of Jean de Rély.

Last use of the Caravel during the forwarding of Bartolomeu Dias. It will be replaced by round ships, Nef S, more rapids and of stronger tonnage (500 to 600 barrels). They are provided with three chechmates, of which two are equipped with round veils (speed), the third, in poop, preserving its lateen sail. They make it possible to embark pieces of artillery and to charge the supply with a crew doubled compared to the practices of European navigation.

the philosophical writer and talmudist Itzhak Abrabanel, banker of the Kings Catholiques, lends the main part of finances necessary to them for the war of Grenade, and later to the equipment of the first caravel S of Christophe Colomb.
the tax puncture under Charles VIII evolves/moves around 2,35 million books is 60 tons of money.

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