1587

Years:
1584 1585 1586 - 1587 - 1588 1589 1590
Decades:
1550s 1560s 1570s - 1580s - 1590s 1600s 1610s
Centuries:
15th century - 16th century - 17th century

1587 was a Common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar or a Common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar.

Events

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 19 - Polish and Lithuanian nobles elect Sigismund 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.
First Filipinos in North America landed in Morro Bay near San Luis Obispo, California
The Rose (theatre) is founded in London by Philip Henslowe.

January 5 - Xu Xiake, Chinese adventurer (died 1641)
January 6 - Gaspar de Guzmán y Pimentel, Count-Duke of Olivares, Spanish statesman (died 1645)
February 26 - Stefano Landi, Italian composer (died 1639)
May 8 - Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy (died 1637)
August 18 - Virginia Dare, Virginia colony settler (died 1588)
September 18 - Francesca Caccini, Italian composer
November 3 - Samuel Scheidt, German composer (died 1653)
Kaspar von Barth, German philologist (died 1658)
Willem Ysbrandtsz Bontekoe, Dutch sea captain (died 1657)
Nathaniel Field, English dramatist and actor (died 1620)
Arthur Johnston, Scottish physician and poet (died 1641)
Francis Kynaston, English courtier and poet (died 1642)
Krzysztof Ossolinski, Polish nobleman (died 1645)
Gabriel Oxenstierna, Swedish statesman (died 1640)
Yun Seondo, Korean politician and poet (died 1671)
Joost van den Vondel, Dutch dramatist and poet (died 1679)
Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick, English colonial administrator and admiral (died 1658)
George Yeardley, English colonial administrator in America (died 1627)