1587

1587 (MDLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1587th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 587th year of the 2nd millennium, the 87th year of the 16th century, and the 8th year of the 1580s decade. As of the start of 1587, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1550s  1560s  1570s  – 1580s –  1590s  1600s  1610s
Years:	1584 1585 1586 – 1587 – 1588 1589 1590

1587 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1587 MDLXXXVII
Ab urbe condita	2340
Armenian calendar	1036 ԹՎ ՌԼԶ
Assyrian calendar	6337
Balinese saka calendar	1508–1509
Bengali calendar	994
Berber calendar	2537
English Regnal year	29 Eliz. 1 – 30 Eliz. 1
Buddhist calendar	2131
Burmese calendar	949
Byzantine calendar	7095–7096
Chinese calendar	丙戌年 (Fire Dog) 4283 or 4223     — to — 丁亥年 (Fire Pig) 4284 or 4224
Coptic calendar	1303–1304
Discordian calendar	2753
Ethiopian calendar	1579–1580
Hebrew calendar	5347–5348
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1643–1644
- Shaka Samvat	1508–1509
- Kali Yuga	4687–4688
Holocene calendar	11587
Igbo calendar	587–588
Iranian calendar	965–966
Islamic calendar	995–996
Japanese calendar	Tenshō 15 (天正１５年)
Javanese calendar	1506–1507
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar	3920
Minguo calendar	325 before ROC 民前325年
Nanakshahi calendar	119
Thai solar calendar	2129–2130
Tibetan calendar	མེ་ཕོ་ཁྱི་ལོ་ (male Fire-Dog) 1713 or 1332 or 560     — to — མེ་མོ་ཕག་ལོ་ (female Fire-Boar) 1714 or 1333 or 561

Events

• February 8 – Mary, Queen of Scots is beheaded at Fotheringhay Castle.

Births

• August 18 – Virginia Dare, Virginia colony settler, the first person of English parentage born in America (date of death unknown)