1587

This page relates to the year 1587 Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

June 6th: Thomas Cavendish, after having plundered the Spanish and Portuguese colonies passes the Magellan Strait towards the Filipino , Java, then turns over in England by the Cape of Good Hope.

June 22nd: a second group of English colonists tries to settle in the Colonie of Roanoke deserted, in North Carolina.

Forwarding of John Davis with the research of the Passage of the North-West. It goes up the strait which bears its name by seeking a passage to the north of America. It reaches the limit of the ices by 72°N.

the tribes cannibals Zimba, come from the Zambezi, attack Kiloa (Tanzania) with reverse and massacre the majority of its inhabitants. Then Zimba go up towards north while skirting the coast of Eastern Africa and destroy all that they find on their passage.

the Othoman sultan imposes a pasha named for three years on Tunis, Tripoli and Algiers.

the Japanese leader Hideyoshi Toyotomi prohibits Christianity and drives out the missionaries Jésuites Japan to prevent any potential revolt of the converted Daimyô S.

February 8th: execution of Marie Stuart for plot against Elisabeth Anger of England.
April 19th: Francis Drake destroys the Spanish fleet in the port of Cadiz.
August 19th, Poland - Lithuania: Sigismond III, wire of Jean Vasa and Catherine Jagellon, is elected king thanks to Jan Zamoyski, with the detriment of the Habsbourg (beginning of the dynasty of the Vasa, end of reign in 1632). He pronounces the ritual oaths of which that to profess the catholic faith.
October 19th: Ferdinand Ier de Médicis becomes large-duke of Tuscany (fine in 1609).

Russia: Plot of Basile Chouïski and Mstislavski against Boris Godounov.
Foundation of the fortified town Siberia of Tobolsk. It replaces the old capital Tatare Sibir (Isker).
Beginning of the construction of the Large Channel of Saragossa, projected in 1529 and completed in 1772.

Famine.
October 20th: Defeat and died of Merry to the Battle of Coutras on the Protestants of Henri de Navarre and Cop.
October 26th: Battle of Vimory, at the time of the Eighth war of religion, during which Henri of Lorraine duke of Own way, known as the Gash , with the head of the catholic troops, overcame the Protestant helped German mercenaries calvinists.
October: Schedule Henri III of France giving corporative privileges to the merchants of wine, taverniers and Cabaretier S of Paris.
November 24th: Battle of Auneau, during the eighth war of religion, which sees the victory of the catholic troops, carried out by Henri Ier de Guise, said the Gash , 3rd duke of Own way, on the Protestant .

Frozen of olive-trees with Pépieux (Aude).
Marguerite de Valois, after having held a brilliant court with Nérac, is locked up with Usson in Auvergne (1587 - 1605).

Sixte Quint organizes the Roman congregations. It confirms the role of that which exists and creates 15 others of them. These assemblies of cardinals deal with the government of the Church, but some of them are charged more particularly with the pontifical government like the congregation of Annone which takes care of the supply of Rome, that of the Streets and the Bridges, the Fleet, the Currency. The congregation of the Sacra Consulted is reinforced for the problems of foreign policy. Those of the Enquiry (1542), of the Index (1571), of the Rites (1588) become the instruments of the Counter-Reformation.

April 2nd: Virginia Centurione Bracelli, Holy catholic Italy, founder of two religious congregations. († December 15th 1651).
November 4th: Samuel Scheidt, German musician

February 8th: Marie Stuart, queen of Scotland
March 2nd: Julien of Breil, lord of the Pontbriand, knight about the King. (° 1516).
August 14th: Guillaume de Mantoue, noble Italian, duke of Mantoue, marquis then duke of Montferrat (° January 23rd 1538, 49 years)
October 20th: Anne de Batarnay de Joyeuse

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