1587

align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1584 1585 1586 - 1587 - 1588 1589 1590

align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1550s 1560s 1570s - 1580s - 1590s 1600s 1610s

align="center" | Centuries:
15th century - 16th century - 17th century

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.
The Rose (theatre) is founded in London by Philip Henslowe.

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