1587

1587 was a year.

Greld attacked the Roanoke colony, implanting mind-control devices in the colonists and components of a meta-cobalt bomb. Christopher Marlowe escaped and returned to England with a Greld control device in his brain. (PROSE: The Empire of Glass) On 22 July, a second group of English colonists arrived at Roanoke Island after the first group mysteriously disappeared, leaving only the word "Croatoan" carved into a tree. (PROSE: Time Traveller's Diary)

The west wing of Chase Mansion was completed in this year. (TV: The Seeds of Doom)

Sir Nairn MacLeish, a friend of Mary, Queen of Scots, was executed. (PROSE: Welcome to Torchwood House ^[+]Loading...["Welcome to Torchwood House (feature)"]) The First Doctor, Ian Chesterton, Barbara Wright and Susan Foreman visited Seville, Spain. Several days later, Sir Francis Drake launched an attack on the Spanish Armada at the port of Cadiz, delaying it until 1588. (AUDIO: The Flames of Cadiz)