1587
This article is about the year 1587. For the book, see 1587, a Year of No Significance.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 15th century – 16th century – 17th century |
| Decades: | 1550s 1560s 1570s – 1580s – 1590s 1600s 1610s |
| Years: | 1584 1585 1586 – 1587 – 1588 1589 1590 |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1587 MDLXXXVII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2340 |
| Armenian calendar | 1036 ԹՎ ՌԼԶ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6337 |
| 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 (Fire Dog) 4283 or 4223 — to — 丁亥年 (Fire Pig) 4284 or 4224 |
| Coptic calendar | 1303–1304 |
| Discordian calendar | 2753 |
| 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 |
| Igbo calendar | 587–588 |
| Iranian calendar | 965–966 |
| Islamic calendar | 995–996 |
| Japanese calendar | Tenshō 15 (天正１５年) |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 10 days |
| Korean calendar | 3920 |
| Minguo calendar | 325 before ROC 民前325年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2129–2130 |
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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 1 – Queen Elizabeth I of England signs the death warrant of her cousin Mary, Queen of Scots, after Mary is implicated in a plot to murder Elizabeth. Seven days later, on the orders of Elizabeth's privy council, Mary is beheaded at Fotheringhay Castle.
- April 29 – "Singeing the King of Spain's Beard": On an expedition against Spain, English privateer Sir Francis Drake leads a raid in the Bay of Cádiz, sinking at least 23 ships of the Spanish fleet.
July–December
- July 22 – Roanoke Colony: 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.
- 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 Shahanshah of Iran.[1]
- 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
- Toyotomi Hideyoshi attacks Kyūshū.
- The first Filipinos in North America land in Morro Bay, near San Luis Obispo, California.
- A severe famine breaks out in China during the Ming dynasty.
- The Rose (theatre) is founded in London by Philip Henslowe.
- The chapbook Historia von D. Johann Fausten, printed by Johann Spies in Frankfurt, is the first published version of the Faust story.
- Establishment of St. Dominic's Church, Macau.
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)
- 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 28 – George Yeardley, English colonial administrator in America (d. 1627)
- August 18 – Virginia Dare, Virginia colony settler, the first person of English parentage born in America (date of death unknown)
- 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)
- Francis Kynaston, English courtier and poet (d. 1642)
- Krzysztof Ossoliński, Polish nobleman (d. 1645)
- Yun Seon-do, 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 – Caspar Olevian, 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 Seymour, Duchess of Somerset (b. 1497)
- June 11 – Ōtomo Sōrin, Japanese Christian daimyo (b. 1530)
- June 23 – Ōmura 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
- probable – George Whetstone, English writer (b. 1544)
References
- ↑ Chambers Biographical Dictionary. p. 1. ISBN 0-550-18022-2.
- Huang, Ray. 1587, a Year of No Significance: The Ming Dynasty in Decline (Yale University Press, 1982), on China during the Ming dynasty.
- Ott, Michael R. Fünfzehnhundertsiebenundachtzig: Literatur, Geschichte und die Historia von D. Johann Fausten (Frankfurt am Main, 2014) online.