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Everything about 1587 totally explainedYear 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
January - June
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. His reign would last one day.
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.
Births
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
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
probable
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Fictional
Soulcalibur, a two-player arcade style fighter, is set in this year.
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