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February 8 - Mary, Queen of Scots is executed.
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.
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.
Deaths
February 8 - Mary, Queen of Scots
April 8 - John Foxe - author of Foxe's Book of Martyrs
October 20 - Anne, Duc de Joyeuse, favorite of Henry III of France
Category:1587
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