1587

Year '1587' was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

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Events of 1587

January - June

July - December

Undated

Fictional

Births

Deaths

Events of 1587

January - June

★ 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 - December

★ 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 III 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.

Undated

★ First Filipinos in North America landed in Morro Bay near San Luis Obispo, California

★ The Rose (theatre) is founded in London by Philip Henslowe.

Fictional

★ Soul Calibur, a two-player arcade style fighter, is set in this year.

Births

★ January 5 - Xu Xiake, Chinese adventurer and geographer (died 1641)

★ January 6 - Gaspar de Guzmán y Pimentel, Count-Duke of Olivares, Spanish statesman (died 1645)

★ January 8 - Jan Pieterszoon Coen, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (died 1629)

★ February 26 - Stefano Landi, Italian composer (died 1639)

★ May 8 - Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy (died 1637)

★ June 2 - Willem Ysbrandtsz Bontekoe, Dutch sea captain (died 1657)

★ June 5 - Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick, English colonial administrator and admiral (died 1658)

★ June 15 - Gabriel Oxenstierna, Swedish statesman (died 1640)

★ June 21 - Kaspar von Barth, German philologist (died 1658)

★ July - George Yeardley, English colonial administrator in America (died 1627)

★ August 18 - Virginia Dare, Virginia colony settler (died 1588)

★ September 18 - Francesca Caccini, Italian composer

★ November 3 - Samuel Scheidt, German composer (died 1653)

★ November 17 - Joost van den Vondel, Dutch dramatist and poet (died 1679)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Nathan Field, English dramatist and actor (died 1620)

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★ Arthur Johnston, Scottish physician and poet (died 1641)

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★ Francis Kynaston, English courtier and poet (died 1642)

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★ Krzysztof Ossoliński, Polish nobleman (died 1645)

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★ Yun Seondo, Korean politician and poet (died 1671)

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★ Song Yingxing, Chinese encyclopedist (d. 1666)
: ''See also .''

Deaths

★ January - Thomas Seckford, English official (born 1515)

★ February 8 - Mary, Queen of Scots (executed) (born 1542)

★ February 9 - Vincenzo Ruffo, Italian composer (born 1510)

★ March 15 - Kaspar Olevianus, German theologian (born 1536)

★ 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)

★ June 23 – Omura Sumitada, Japanese Christian daimyo (born 1532)

★ August 29 - Vincenzo Bellavere, Italian composer (born c1540)

★ October 19 - Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (born 1541)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Abe Motozane, Japanese warlord (born 1513)

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★ Dudley Fenner, English puritan divine (born c1558)

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★ Jan Tarlo (1527-1587), Polish nobleman (born 1527)

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★ Hai Rui, Ming dynasty "model official" (born 1514)

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★ Otomo Sorin, Japanese Christian daimyo (born 1530)

★ ''probable''

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★ George Whetstone, English writer (born 1544)
: ''See also .''