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{| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;" |- | align="center" colspan=2 | '''Years:'''
1584 1585 1586 - 1587 - 1588 1589 1590 |- | align="center" colspan=2 | '''Decades:'''
1550s 1560s 1570s - '''1580s''' - 1590s 1600s 1610s |- | align="center" | '''Centuries:'''
15th century - '''16th century''' - 17th century |} ==Events== *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 *October 20 - Anne, Duc de Joyeuse, favorite of Henry III of Franceca:1587 da:1587 de:1587 es:1587 eo:1587 fr:1587 nl:1587 pl:1587 ro:1587 sl:1587 fi:1587 sv:1587