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1587

1587 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar.

1587 - Events

• February 8 - Mary, Queen of Scots is beheaded at Fotheringhay Castle in England after she is implicated in a plot to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I.
• July 22 - Colony of Roanoke: A group of English settlers arrive on Roanoke Island off of North Carolina to re-establish the deserted colony.
• August 19 - Polish and Lithuanian nobles elect Sigismund Vasa as their king
• October 20 - Battle of Coutras - Huguenot forces under Henry of Navarre defeat Royalist forces under Anne, Duc de Joyeuse, favorite of King Henry. Joyeuse is killed.
• October 31 - Leiden University Library opens its doors after its founding in 1575.
• First Filipinos in North America landed in Morro Bay near San Luis Obispo, California
• The Rose (theatre) is founded in London by Philip Henslowe.

1587 - Births

• January 5 - Xu Xiake, Chinese adventurer (died 1641)
• January 6 - Gaspar de Guzmán y Pimentel, Count-Duke of Olivares, Spanish statesman (died 1645)
• January 8 - Jan Pieterszoon Coen (died 21 September 1629) was an officer of Dutch East India Company (VOC) and was Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies.
• February 26 - Stefano Landi, Italian composer (died 1639)
• May 8 - Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy (died 1637)
• August 18 - Virginia Dare, Virginia colony settler (died 1588)
• September 18 - Francesca Caccini, Italian composer
• November 3 - Samuel Scheidt, German composer (died 1653)
• Kaspar von Barth, German philologist (died 1658)
• Willem Ysbrandtsz Bontekoe, Dutch sea captain (died 1657)
• Nathaniel Field, English dramatist and actor (died 1620)
• Arthur Johnston, Scottish physician and poet (died 1641)
• Francis Kynaston, English courtier and poet (died 1642)
• Krzysztof Ossolinski, Polish nobleman (died 1645)
• Gabriel Oxenstierna, Swedish statesman (died 1640)
• Yun Seondo, Korean politician and poet (died 1671)
• Joost van den Vondel, Dutch dramatist and poet (died 1679)
• Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick, English colonial administrator and admiral (died 1658)
• George Yeardley, English colonial administrator in America (died 1627)

See also Category:1587 births.

1587 - Deaths

• February 8 - Mary, Queen of Scots (executed) (born 1542)
• March 30 - Ralph Sadler, English statesman (born 1507)
• April 8 - John Foxe, English author (born 1516)
• April 14 - Edward Manners, 3rd Earl of Rutland (born 1548)
• April 16 - Anne Stanhope, Duchess of Somerset (born 1497)
• October 19 - Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (born 1541)
• Abe Motozane, Japanese warlord (born 1513)
• Vincenzo Bellavere, Italian composer
• Dudley Fenner, English puritan divine
• Nguyen Binh Khiem, Vietnamese poet and saint (born 1492)
• Luís de Camões, Portuguese poet (born 1524)
• Kaspar Olevianus, German theologian (born 1536)
• Vincenzo Ruffo, Italian composer (born 1510)
• Thomas Seckford, English official (born 1515)
• Jan Tarlo, Polish nobleman
• George Whetstone, English writer (born 1544)

See also Category:1587 deaths.

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