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The Calendar of Literary Facts contains more than 6,500 events in literary history.

1587 Literary Facts

1587

At the direction of Sir Walter Ralegh, John White plants a colony of 89 men, 17 women, and two children on Roanoke Island, North Carolina; in two years the colonists disappear from history, becoming the so-called “Lost Colony”

1587

Mary Stuart (“Mary Queen of Scots”) is beheaded in England