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1587| 1550–1600 | North America, South America, Europe [trade] | New agricultural products are exchanged between the New and Old Worlds. The Spanish introduce potatoes, tomatoes, quinine, cocoa, tapioca, and tobacco to Europe. From Europe, the New World gains barley, oats, rye, sugar cane, cattle, pigs, poultry, rabbits, and horses. | | 8 February 1587 | England [births and deaths] | Mary Queen of Scots, queen of Scotland 1542–67, who was deposed because of her marital affairs and political incompetence and was forced to flee to England, is executed in Fotheringhay Castle, Northamptonshire, England (44). | | 8 February 1587 | England [crime and punishment] | When Mary Queen of Scots is executed at Fotheringhay Castle, near Northampton, England, Queen Elizabeth I of England, who has washed her hands of Mary after signing her death warrant on 1 February, feigns anger with her over-hasty officials, fining William Davidson, a secretary of state, for sending the warrant to Fotheringhay. The Lord Treasurer, William Cecil, Lord Burghley, remains in disgrace until July. | | 5 August 1587 | United Netherlands, Spanish Netherlands, Holy Roman Empire [Dutch Revolt (1598–1609)] | The Habsburg governor of the Spanish Netherlands, Alessandro Farnese, Duke of Parma, captures the town of Sluys in the United Netherlands, completing his conquest of the south bank of the River Scheldt, while his adversaries the stadtholder (provincial executive officer) Count Maurice of Nassau and Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, English lieutenant general in the Netherlands, quarrel and Leicester plans an assault on the estates of Holland. | | 19 August 1587 | Poland-Lithuania [political events] | Sigismund III Vasa, son of King John III of Sweden, is elected king of Poland; he is forced to concede further powers to the Sejm (parliament). A minority supports Maximilian, Archduke of Austria, who invades toward Kraków. |
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