Historical Events In 1587

Mar 12 English parliament leader Peter Wentworth confined in London Tower

Mar 01 English parliament leader Peter Wentworth confined in London Tower

Aug 18 First English child born in the New World (Virginia Dare)

Feb 01 English queen Elizabeth I signs Mary Stuart's death sentence

Feb 08 Mary, Queen of Scots looses her head

Apr 19 English captain Francis Drake sinks the Spanish fleet in Cadiz harbour

Jul 22 English settlers establish a colony on Roanoke Island off North Carolina.

Jul 22 2nd English colony established on Roanoke Island off NC

Jan 29 Deventer &Zutphen surrender to Spain