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Events on Wednesday 19 August 1587 1
1587Sigismund Vasa elected King of PolandSwedish prince chosen amid a contested electionFollowing 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.