1587

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This article is about the year 1587. For the book, see 1587, a Year of No Significance.
Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
  • 15th century
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  • 1586
  • 1587
  • 1588
  • 1589
  • 1590
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1587 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1587
MDLXXXVII
Ab urbe condita2340
Armenian calendar1036
ԹՎ ՌԼԶ
Assyrian calendar6337
Balinese saka calendar1508–1509
Bengali calendar994
Berber calendar2537
English Regnal year29 Eliz. 1 – 30 Eliz. 1
Buddhist calendar2131
Burmese calendar949
Byzantine calendar7095–7096
Chinese calendar丙戌年 (Fire Dog)
4283 or 4223
    — to —
丁亥年 (Fire Pig)
4284 or 4224
Coptic calendar1303–1304
Discordian calendar2753
Ethiopian calendar1579–1580
Hebrew calendar5347–5348
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1643–1644
 - Shaka Samvat1508–1509
 - Kali Yuga4687–4688
Holocene calendar11587
Igbo calendar587–588
Iranian calendar965–966
Islamic calendar995–996
Japanese calendarTenshō 15
(天正１５年)
Javanese calendar1506–1507
Julian calendarGregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar3920
Minguo calendar325 before ROC
民前325年
Nanakshahi calendar119
Thai solar calendar2129–2130
Tibetan calendar阳火狗年
(male Fire-Dog)
1713 or 1332 or 560
    — to —
阴火猪年
(female Fire-Pig)
1714 or 1333 or 561
October 31: Leiden University Library is opened.

1587 (MDLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday 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. As of the start of 1587, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events[]

January–June[]

  • February 1 – Queen Elizabeth I of England signs the death warrant of her cousin Mary, Queen of Scots, after Mary has been implicated in a plot to murder Elizabeth. Seven days later, on the orders of Elizabeth's privy council, Mary is beheaded at Fotheringhay Castle.[1]
  • February 12–24 – Period of exceptionally severe cold in western Europe.[2]
  • 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.
  • May 19 – John Davis sets out from Dartmouth, Devon, for a third attempt to find the Northwest Passage.

July–December[]

  • July 22 – Roanoke Colony: A group of English settlers arrive on Roanoke Island off North Carolina, to re-establish the deserted colony.[3]
  • August 18 – According to legend, Saul Wahl is named king of Poland; he is deposed the following day.[4]
  • August 19 – Polish and Lithuanian nobles elect Sigismund III Vasa as their king.[5]
  • 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.[6]
  • October 18 – Landing of the first Filipinos: The first Filipinos in North America land in Morro Bay, near San Luis Obispo in modern-day California.
  • 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.[7]

Date unknown[]

  • Toyotomi Hideyoshi becomes Daijō-daijin of Japan and concludes the Kyūshū Campaign with the Siege of Kagoshima at which most of Kyushu is surrendered to him; he banishes European Christian missionaries from the province.
  • A severe famine breaks out in Ming dynasty China.
  • 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.
  • Everard Digby's De Arte Natandi, the first treatise on swimming in England, is published.
  • St. Dominic's Church, Macau is established.
  • Hailuoto, an island in the Bothnian Bay, is separated from the grand parish of Saloinen into an independent parish.[8][9]

Births[]

Jan Pieterszoon Coen
Gabriel Gustafsson Oxenstierna
Hans van Steenwinckel the Younger

Deaths[]

Juraj Drašković
Mary, Queen of Scots
Ralph Sadler
Godfried van Mierlo
Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany

References[]

  1. ^ Hugh Chisholm; James Louis Garvin (1926). The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature & General Information. Encyclopædia Britannica Company, Limited. p. 823.
  2. ^ Easton, Cornelius (1928). Les hivers dans l'Europe occidentale: étude statistique et historique sur leur température, discussion des observations thermométriques, 1852–1916 et 1757–1851, tableaux comparatifs, classifications des hivers, 1205–1916, notices historiques sur les hivers remarquables. Brill Archive. p. 98.
  3. ^ Travis Elborough (September 17, 2019). Atlas of Vanishing Places: The lost worlds as they were and as they are today. White Lion Publishing. p. 79. ISBN 978-1-78131-895-9.
  4. ^ Wasserzug, D. (1904). "Medieval Jewish Statesman". New Era Illustrated Magazine. pp. 564–574. Retrieved October 4, 2010.
  5. ^ R. Nisbet Bain (June 13, 2013). Slavonic Europe: A Political History of Poland and Russia from 1447 to 1796. Cambridge University Press. p. 102. ISBN 978-1-107-63691-0.
  6. ^ Chambers Biographical Dictionary. p. 1. ISBN 0-550-18022-2.
  7. ^ Elfriede Hulshoff Pol (1975). The First Century of Leiden University Library. Brill Archive. p. 402.
  8. ^ Hailuodon historia – Luontoon (in Finnish)
  9. ^ Paimenmuisto: Hailuoto (Carlö, Karlö) – Kansallisbiografia (in Finnish)
  10. ^ Abraham van der Haagen in the RKD
  11. ^ Wouter T. Kloek; Hessel Miedema; J. Bruyn; Christian Schuckman (January 1, 1993). Dawn of the Golden Age: Northern Netherlandish Art, 1580-1620. Rijksmuseum. p. 320. ISBN 978-0-300-06016-4.
  12. ^ Ronald James Alexander (1989). The Secular Monodies of Francesca Caccini's "Il Primo Libro Delle Musiche" Edition and Commentary. U. of Calif., Davis. p. 1.
  13. ^ Patrick Bonner (February 1, 2011). Change and Continuity in Early Modern Cosmology. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 171. ISBN 978-94-007-0037-6.
  14. ^ Lindsey C. Harnsberger (October 1996). Essential Dictionary of Music: Definitions, Composers, Theory, Instrument & Vocal Ranges. Alfred Music Publishing. p. 247. ISBN 978-0-88284-728-3.
  15. ^ "Kynaston, Sir Francis (1587-c.1649), of Oteley, Ellesmere, Salop". Houses of Parliament Online. Retrieved March 23, 2021.
  16. ^ Ewan, Elizabeth (2006). The biographical dictionary of Scottish women : from the earliest times to 2004 (Reprinted. ed.). Edinburgh: Edinburgh Univ. Press. p. 400. ISBN 0-7486-1713-2.
  17. ^ Samuel Macauley Jackson; Lefferts Augustine Loetscher (1949). The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing Biblical, Historical, Doctrinal, and Practical Theology, and Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Biography from the Earliest Times to the Present Day. Baker. p. 235.
  18. ^ John Foxe; George Townsend (1870). The Acts and Monuments of John Foxe: With a Life and Defence of the Martyrologist. G. Seeley. p. 91.
  19. ^ John Nichols (2014). John Nichols's The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth: Volume III: 1579 to 1595. OUP Oxford. p. 386. ISBN 978-0-19-955140-8.
  20. ^ Borbone, Pier Giorgio (2017). "From Tur 'Abdin to Rome: the Syro-Orthodox presence in Sixteenth-Century Rome". In Herman Teule; Elif Keser-Kayaalp; Kutlu Akalin; Nesim Dorum; M. Sait Toprak (eds.). Syriac in its Multi-cultural Context: First International Syriac Studies Symposium. Peeters. p. 283.
  21. ^ "Vincenzo Bellavere," in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ed. Stanley Sadie. 20 vol. London, Macmillan Publishers Ltd., 1980. ISBN 1-56159-174-2
  22. ^ Charles George Herbermann; Edward Aloysius Pace; Condé Bénoist Pallen (1913). The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the Constitution, Doctrine, Discipline, and History of the Catholic Church. Encyclopedia Press. p. 435.
  • 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.
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