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| Years: 1584 1585 1586 - 1587 - 1588 1589 1590 | |
| Decades: 1550s 1560s 1570s - 1580s - 1590s 1600s 1610s | |
| 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.
- 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.
Deaths
- February 8 - Mary, Queen of Scots
- April 8 - John Foxe - author of Foxe's Book of Martyrs
- October 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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