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 in other calendars

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

1587 (MDLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday (dominical letter D) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday (dominical letter A) of the Julian calendar, the 1587th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 587th year of the 2nd millennium, the 87th year of the 16th century, and the 8th year of the 1580s decade. Note that the Julian day for 1587 is 10 calendar days difference, which continued to be used from 1582 until the complete conversion of the Gregorian calendar was entirely done in 1929.

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.
• 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
  • Abe Motozane, Japanese warlord (b. 1513)
  • Dudley Fenner, English puritan divine (b. c. 1558)
  • Jan Tarło, Polish nobleman (b. 1527)
  • Hai Rui, Ming dynasty "model official" (b. 1514)
• 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.
• Ott, Michael R. Fünfzehnhundertsiebenundachtzig: Literatur, Geschichte und die Historia von D. Johann Fausten (Frankfurt am Main, 2014) online.