Timeline August 1587

Events in August 1587 3

• 1587 Siege of Sluis Spanish forces capture the Dutch port town The Duke of Parma's Spanish army besieged and captured the fortified port of Sluis in Flanders, overcoming its English and Dutch garrison. The town's fall secured a key harbor for Spain ahead of the planned invasion of England.
• 1587 Birth of Virginia Dare at Roanoke First English child born in the Americas Virginia Dare was born at the Roanoke Colony in present-day North Carolina, the first child born to English parents in the Americas. She was the granddaughter of colony governor John White, who departed for England soon after her birth and found the colony abandoned upon his return years later.
• 1587 Sigismund Vasa elected King of Poland Swedish prince chosen amid a contested election Following the death of King Stephen Bathory, the Polish-Lithuanian nobility elected Sigismund Vasa, son of King John III of Sweden, as their king over a rival faction backing Archduke Maximilian of Austria. Sigismund's dual claim to the Polish and Swedish thrones shaped central European politics for decades.