- Mar 6 Dutch and English army led by Maurice of Nassau captures heavily protected city of Breda using a small assault force hidden in a peat barge
Battle of Ivry
Mar 14 Battle of Ivry: French King Henry IV beats Catholic League during French Wars of Religion
Historic Event
Jul 6 English admiral Francis Drake takes Portuguese Forts at Taag
- Jul 19 King Philip II's secretary Antonio Perez escapes jail
- Aug 14 Publication of Christopher Marlowe's play "Tamburlaine the Great" is recorded by Stationers' Company of London (likely first performed 1587)
- Aug 17 Governor of Roanoke Island colony, John White, returns from England to find no trace of the colonists he had left there 3 years earlier [or Aug 18, 1591]
Historic Event
Aug 30 Tokugawa Ieyasu enters Edo Castle (Traditional Japanese date: August 1, 1590)
Historic Siege
Sep 5 Alexander Farnese's army forces Henry IV of France to raise the siege of Paris