1587

This article is about the year 1587. For the book, see 1587, a Year of No Significance.

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 by topic

Arts and science

Architecture - Art - Literature - Music - Science

Lists of leaders

Colonial governors - State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

Works category

Works

1587 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1587 MDLXXXVII
Ab urbe condita	2340
Armenian calendar	1036 ԹՎ ՌԼԶ
Assyrian calendar	6337
Bahá'í calendar	-257–-256
Bengali calendar	994
Berber calendar	2537
English Regnal year	29 Eliz. 1 – 30 Eliz. 1
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	1643–1644
- 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
Minguo calendar	325 before ROC 民前325年
Thai solar calendar	2130

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

Events

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 18 – Virginia Dare, is the first English-born in America.
• August 19 – According to legend, Saul Wahl is deposed.
• August 19 – Polish and Lithuanian nobles elect Sigismund III Vasa as their king.
• August 27 – Governor John White leaves the Roanoke Colony to get more supplies from England.
• October 1 – Shāh ‘Abbās I "The Great" succeeds as Shahenshah of Iran.
• October 20 – Battle of Coutras: Huguenot forces under Henry of Navarre defeat Royalist forces under Anne de Joyeuse, favorite of King Henry. Joyeuse is killed.
• October 31 – Leiden University Library opens its doors after its founding in 1575.

Date unknown

• 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 attacks Kyūshū.

Births

• January 5 – Xu Xiake, Chinese adventurer and geographer (d. 1641)
• January 6 – Gaspar de Guzmán, 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)

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)

References

• Huang, Ray. 1587, A Year of No Significance: The Ming Dynasty in Decline (Yale University Press, 1982), on China during the Ming Dynasty