• Yorkist adherents led by John de la Pole, earl of Lincoln, invade England in an attempt to have Lambert Simnel, an imposter claiming to be Edward, earl of Warwick, placed on the throne. They are defeated by the forces of Henry VII at the Battle of Stoke, in what would turn out to be the last battle of the War of the Roses.
• After a long siege, Castillian forces capture the important seaport of Malaga from the Moors.
• Pope Innocent VIII instigates a persecution that wipes out the Dauphiné Waldenses.
• Anjou is definitively annexed by the French crown, after years as a political football of sorts.

These people were born in 1487:

• John Zapolya, the future King John I of Hungary.
• Italian religious reformer Bernardino Ochino.
• German sculptor Peter Vischer the Younger.

1486 - 1487 - 1488

15th century