1587
1587 was a
common year starting on Thursday of the
Gregorian calendar or a
common year starting on Sunday of the
Julian calendar.
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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.
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July 22 -
Colony of Roanoke: A group of English settlers arrive on
Roanoke Island off of
North Carolina to re-establish the deserted colony.
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August 19 -
Polish and
Lithuanian nobles elect
Sigismund III Vasa as their king
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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.
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October 31 -
Leiden University Library opens its doors after its founding in
1575.
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Filipinos in North America landed in Morro Bay near San Luis Obispo, California
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The Rose (theatre) is founded in
London by
Philip Henslowe.
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January 5 -
Xu Xiake, Chinese adventurer (died
1641)
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January 6 -
Gaspar de Guzmán y Pimentel, Count-Duke of Olivares, Spanish statesman (died
1645)
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January 8 -
Jan Pieterszoon Coen, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (died
1629)
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February 26 -
Stefano Landi, Italian composer (died
1639)
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May 8 -
Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy (died
1637)
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August 18 -
Virginia Dare, Virginia colony settler (died
1588)
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September 18 -
Francesca Caccini, Italian composer
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November 3 -
Samuel Scheidt, German composer (died
1653)
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Kaspar von Barth, German philologist (died
1658)
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Willem Ysbrandtsz Bontekoe, Dutch sea captain (died
1657)
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Nathaniel 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 Ossolinski, Polish nobleman (died
1645)
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Gabriel Oxenstierna, Swedish statesman (died
1640)
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Yun Seondo, Korean politician and poet (died
1671)
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Joost van den Vondel, Dutch dramatist and poet (died
1679)
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Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick, English colonial administrator and admiral (died
1658)
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George Yeardley, English colonial administrator in America (died
1627)
See also :Category:1587 births.*
February 8 -
Mary, Queen of Scots (executed) (born
1542)
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March 30 -
Ralph Sadler, English statesman (born
1507)
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April 8 -
John Foxe, English author (born
1516)
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April 14 -
Edward Manners, 3rd Earl of Rutland (born
1548)
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April 16 -
Anne Stanhope, Duchess of Somerset (born
1497)
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October 19 -
Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (born
1541)
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Abe Motozane, Japanese warlord (born
1513)
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Vincenzo Bellavere, Italian composer
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Dudley Fenner, English puritan divine
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Nguyen Binh Khiem, Vietnamese poet and saint (born
1492)
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Kaspar Olevianus, German theologian (born
1536)
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Vincenzo Ruffo, Italian composer (born
1510)
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Thomas Seckford, English official (born
1515)
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Jan Tarlo, Polish nobleman
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George Whetstone, English writer (born
1544)
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Hai Rui, Ming dynasty "model official" (born
1514)
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Otomo Sorin, japanese christian daimyo (born
1530)
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Omura Sumitada, japanese christian daimyo (born
1532)
See also :Category:1587 deaths.
