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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).

Events of 1587

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 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.

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

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.

See also Category:1587 deaths.