1587
EventsFebruary 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 kingOctober 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.First Filipinos in North America landed in Morro Bay near San Luis Obispo, California The Rose (theatre) is founded in London by Philip Henslowe.
Births January 6 - Gaspar de Guzman, Count of Olivares, Duke of San Lucar August 18 - Virginia Dare, granddaughter of Gov. John White of the Colony of Roanoke, becomes the first English child born in the Americas.
DeathsFebruary 8 - Mary, Queen of ScotsApril 8 - John Foxe - author of Foxe's Book of MartyrsOctober 19 - Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1541)October 20 - Anne, Duc de Joyeuse, favorite of Henry III of France
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