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| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 15th century - 16th century - 17th century |
| Decades: | 1550s 1560s 1570s - 1580s - 1590s 1600s 1610s |
| Years: | 1584 1585 1586 - 1587 - 1588 1589 1590 |
| 1587 in topic: |
| Subjects: Archaeology - Architecture - |
| Art - Literature - Music - Science |
| Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors |
| Category: Establishments - Disestablishments |
| Births - Deaths - Works |
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
- 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 18 - According to legend, Saul Wahl is named king of Poland.
- August 19 - According to legend, Saul Wahl is deposed.
- 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
- The first Filipinos in North America land in Morro Bay, near San Luis Obispo, California.
- The Rose (theatre) is founded in London by Philip Henslowe.
- A severe famine breaks out in China during the Ming Dynasty.
- Toyotomi Hideyoshi attacked Kyūshū
Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1587 MDLXXXVII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2340 |
| Armenian calendar | 1036 ԹՎ ՌԼԶ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -257 – -256 |
| Berber calendar | 2537 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2131 |
| Burmese calendar | 949 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7095 – 7096 |
| Chinese calendar | 丙戌年十一月廿三日 (4223/4283-11-23) — to —
丁亥年十二月初三日(4224/4284-12-3) |
| Coptic calendar | 1303 – 1304 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1579 – 1580 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5347 – 5348 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1642 – 1643 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1509 – 1510 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4688 – 4689 |
| Holocene calendar | 11587 |
| Iranian calendar | 965 – 966 |
| Islamic calendar | 995 – 996 |
| Japanese calendar | Tenshō 15 (天正15年) |
| Korean calendar | 3920 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2130 |
- January 5 - Xu Xiake, Chinese adventurer and geographer (d. 1641)
- January 6 - Gaspar de Guzmán y Pimentel, Count-Duke of Olivares, Spanish statesman (d. 1645)
- January 8 - Jan Pieterszoon Coen, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (d. 1629)
- February 26 - Stefano Landi, Italian composer (d. 1639)
- April 5-Thomas Hobbes, English Philosopher (d. 1679
- May 8 - Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy (d. 1637)
- June 2 - Willem Ysbrandtsz Bontekoe, Dutch sea captain (d. 1657)
- June 5 - Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick, English colonial administrator and admiral (d. 1658)
- June 15 - Gabriel Oxenstierna, Swedish statesman (d. 1640)
- June 21 - Kaspar von Barth, German philologist (d. 1658)
- July - George Yeardley, English colonial administrator in America (d. 1627)
- August 18 - Virginia Dare, Virginia colony settler (d. 1588)
- September 18 - Francesca Caccini, Italian composer
- November 3 - Samuel Scheidt, German composer (d. 1653)
- November 17 - Joost van den Vondel, Dutch dramatist and poet (d. 1679)
- date unknown
- Nathan Field, English dramatist and actor (d. 1620)
- Arthur Johnston, Scottish physician and poet (d. 1641)
- Francis Kynaston, English courtier and poet (d. 1642)
- Krzysztof Ossoliński, Polish nobleman (d. 1645)
- Yun Seondo, Korean politician and poet (d. 1671)
- Song Yingxing, Chinese encyclopedist (d. 1666)
- See also Category:1587 births.
Deaths
- January - Thomas Seckford, English official (b. 1515)
- February 8 - Mary, Queen of Scots (executed) (b. 1542)
- February 9 - Vincenzo Ruffo, Italian composer (b. 1510)
- March 15 - Kaspar Olevianus, German theologian (b. 1536)
- March 30 - Ralph Sadler, English statesman (b. 1507)
- April 8 - John Foxe, English author (b. 1516)
- April 14 - Edward Manners, 3rd Earl of Rutland (b. 1548)
- April 16 - Anne Stanhope, Duchess of Somerset (b. 1497)
- June 23 – Omura Sumitada, Japanese Christian daimyo (b. 1532)
- August 29 - Vincenzo Bellavere, Italian composer (b. c. 1540)
- October 19 - Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1541)
- date unknown
- Abe Motozane, Japanese warlord (b. 1513)
- Dudley Fenner, English puritan divine (b. c. 1558)
- Jan Tarlo (1527-1587), Polish nobleman (b. 1527)
- Hai Rui, Ming dynasty "model official" (b. 1514)
- Otomo Sorin, Japanese Christian daimyo (b. 1530)
- probable
- George Whetstone, English writer (b. 1544)
- See also Category:1587 deaths.
Fictional
- Soulcalibur, a two-player arcade style fighter, is set in this year.
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