* 1587 – Francis Drake leads a raid in the Bay of Cádiz, sinking at least 23 ships of the Spanish fleet.

* 1587 – Virginia Dare, granddaughter of Governor John White of the Colony of Roanoke, becomes the first English child born in the Americas.

He was born in Antwerp, where he started his career, but he spent most of it in Middelburg ( 1587 – 1613 ), where he moved with his family because of the threat of religious persecution.

He travelled to Venice ( 1582, 1587 – 1589 ) and Parma ( 1586 – 1587 ).

On 9 November 1555 Cardinal Ippolito II d ' Este ( famed as the builder of the Villa d ' Este at Tivoli ), wrote to Guglielmo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua ( 1538 – 1587 ), that he has heard that His Grace is interested in his cantoretti, and offering to send him two, so that he could choose one for his own service.

That the curve followed by a chain is not a parabola was proven by Joachim Jungius ( 1587 – 1657 ); this result was published posthumously in 1669.

* 1542 – Mary, Queen of Scots ( d. 1587 )

There were many great encyclopedists throughout Chinese history, including the scientist and statesman Shen Kuo ( 1031 – 1095 ) with his Dream Pool Essays of 1088, the statesman, inventor, and agronomist Wang Zhen ( active 1290 – 1333 ) with his Nong Shu of 1313, and the written Tiangong Kaiwu of Song Yingxing ( 1587 – 1666 ), the latter of whom was termed the " Diderot of China " by British historian Joseph Needham.

* 1594 – Having already inherited the throne of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth through his mother Catherine Jagellonica of Poland in 1587, Sigismund III of the House of Vasa is crowned King of Sweden, having succeeded his father John III of Sweden in 1592.

* 1587 – Stefano Landi, Italian composer ( d. 1639 )

* 1587 – Mary, Queen of Scots, is executed on suspicion of having been involved in the Babington Plot to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I.

* Sophie of Brandenburg-Ansbach ( March 23, 1535 – February 12, 1587 ) married Henry XI of Legnica on November 11, 1560.

* 1587 – William Arnold, English-American settler ( d. 1675 )

* 1587 – Johannes Fabricius, German astronomer ( d. 1616 )

* 1587 – Colony of Roanoke: a second group of English settlers arrives on Roanoke Island off North Carolina to re-establish the deserted colony.

* Christian William ( 28 August 1587 – 1 January 1665 )

* 1587 – Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy ( d. 1637 )

* 1541 – Francesco I de ' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany ( d. 1587 )

* Mary, Queen of Scots ( 1542 – 1587 ), mother of James I of England

* July 22 – Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares, Spanish statesman ( b. 1587 )

In fact, Father Gaspar Frutuoso and Friar Agostinho de Montalverne certified that the colonists in Madalena had tripled by the 17th Century ; in 1587, there were less than 3000 inhabitants and around 9000 by 1695, forcing the remodelling of the local church.

* Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares ( 1587 – 1645 ), was King Philip IV's chief minister and the most powerful man in Spain next to the king himself.

In 1587, Philip promoted Macau from " Settlement or Port of the Name of God " to " City of the Name of God " ( Cidade do Nome de Deus de Macau ).

In 1587, Florimond de Raemond, a magistrate in the parlement de Bordeaux and an antiquary, published his first attempt to deconstruct the legend, Erreur Populaire de la Papesse Jeanne ( also subsequently published under the title L ' Anti-Papesse ).

The history of the manuscript begins 1587 when the censor Andrea de Monte ( d. 1587 ) bequeathed it to Ugo Boncompagni — which presents an oddity, since Boncompagni, better known as Pope Gregory XIII, died in 1585.

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* June 2 – Annet de Clermont-Gessant, 59th Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitaller ( b. 1587 )

* March 25 – Francesco I de ' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany ( died 1587 )

* Ferdinando I de ' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany ( 1549 – 1609 ), grand duke in 1587

Henry began a great friendship with the Feuillant reformer Jean de la Barrière and built a monastery for him and his followers to commemorate their friendship in 1587.

* Mary, Queen of Scots ( 1542 – 1587 ), queen regnant of Scotland and queen consort of France ; daughter of James V of Scotland and Queen Marie de Guise, wife of Francis II of France and mother of James I of England

* Gastón de Peralta, marqués de Falces ( 1510 – 1587 ), viceroy of New Spain from 1566 to 1568

His Larmes de Saint Pierre, imitated from Luigi Tansillo, appeared in 1587.

Special interest attaches to his edition of the Minerva sive de causis linguae latinae ( Salamanca: Renaut, 1587 ) of Francisco Sánchez de las Brozas or El Brocense ( ed.

A tzompantli is illustrated to the right of a depiction of an Aztec temple dedicated to the deity Huitzilopochtli ; from Juan de Tovar's 1587 manuscript, also known as the Ramírez Codex.

His brother Pierre de Gondi became bishop of Paris in 1570 and cardinal in 1587.

Some people connect the game with the Phaistos Disc ( because its spiral shape ), others claim that it was originally a gift from Francesco I de ' Medici of Florence to King Philip II of Spain sometime between 1574 and 1587, while the latest theories attribute to the Templars the creation of the game.

In 1587 Francesco I de ' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany died without a legitimate male heir ; his brother Ferdinando immediately declared himself the third Grand Duke of Tuscany.

In Italy he was pursued by the enmity of the Conde-Duque of Olivares, curiously enough, born in Rome in 1587, where his father, don Enrique de Guzmán y Ribera, a cadet child from one of Spain's oldest noble families, was the Spanish ambassador, as was also his patron Spinola, who caused him to be deprived of his powers as plenipotentiary.

Meanwhile, Sir Francis Drake had undertaken a major voyage against Spanish ports and ships to the Caribbean in 1585 and 1586, and in 1587 had made a successful raid on Cadiz, destroying the Spanish fleet of war ships intended for the Enterprise of England: Philip II had decided to take the war to England.

Her reign is famous for the defeat of the Armada, and for successful raids against the Spanish, such as those on Cádiz in 1587 and 1596, but some historians point to military failures on land and at sea.

* Ark Royal ( 1587 ), the flagship of the English fleet during the Spanish Armada campaign of 1588.

Combined with his daring raids against the Spanish and his great victory over them at Cadiz in 1587, he became a famous hero -- his exploits are still celebrated — but England did not follow up on his claims.

Taken by the Spanish in 1587 by the treachery of the English commander Rowland York, Zutphen was recovered by Maurice, prince of Orange, in 1591, and except for two short periods, one in 1672 and the other during the French Revolutionary Wars, it has since then remained a part of the Netherlands.

This dramatic device was probably first used by Thomas Kyd in The Spanish Tragedy around 1587, where the play is presented before an audience of two of the characters, who comment upon the action.

It was the capital of La Florida from 1566 to 1587, during which time Spanish explorers sailed from Santa Elena to explore the Tennessee valley and Chesapeake Bay.

Founded on 15 April 1587 as Colegio del Espíritu Santo, the school was sponsored by the Society of Jesus during most of the Spanish colonial era before turning into a public college in 1825 and eventually into a public university in 1937.

The Spanish arrived in 1587, followed by the Dutch in 1609.

He was an officer and a recusant, who served under Elizabeth I of England and is most noted for his surrender of Deventer to the Spanish in 1587.

Stanley promptly communicated with the Spanish governor of Zutphen, and Deventer was surrendered by him to the Spanish in January 1587, whereupon almost the entire garrison entered the Spanish service.

In 1588 Pope Sixtus V, in support of the Spanish Armada, renewed the solemn bull of excommunication against Queen Elizabeth I, for the regicide of Mary, Queen of Scots in 1587 as well as the previously catalogued offences against the Catholic Church.

After much deliberation, he was made a Cardinal by Pope Sixtus V on 7 August 1587, possibly to ensure the success of the Spanish Armada.

In 1587 he was asked by the Privy Council to organize the defences of Devon and Cornwall in preparation for the expected attack by the Spanish Armada the following year.

In 1587, engineers Juan de Tejada and Juan Bautista Antonelli designed the actual appearance of the castle following well established Spanish military fortification design principles.

In 1587 his repeated requests to take an active part in resisting the threatened Spanish attack were refused.

Spanish tercios, during the campaign of 1544, did considerable damage to the church and cloister, both of which were partially restored in 1587.

First performed 1587 and subsequently published in 1592, The Spanish Tragedy was a popular smash so successful that, with Tamburlaine, it practically defined tragic dramaturgy for a number of years.