1600s in England
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Events from the 1600s in England.
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[edit] Incumbents
Monarch - Elizabeth I of England (to 24 March 1603), James I of England
[edit] Events
- 1600
- January - In Ireland, Hugh O'Neill, 2nd Earl of Tyrone renews the Nine Years' War against England with an invasion of Munster.[1]
- 31 December - Honourable East India Company granted a Royal Charter.[2]
- Publication of Ben Jonson's play Every Man Out of His Humour.[1]
- First production of William Shakespeare's plays The Merchant of Venice and A Midsummer Night's Dream.[1]
- 1601
- 7 January–8 January - Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex stages a short-lived rebellion against Elizabeth I.[1]
- 25 February - Essex executed for treason.[1]
- 2 October–3 January 1602 - The Siege of Kinsale ends the rebellion in Ireland.[1]
- November - Elizabeth I address her final parliament with the Golden Speech.[1]
- First production of Shakespeare's play Hamlet.[2]
- 1602
- 8 November - The Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford is opened.[2]
- Publication of the Shakespeare play The Merry Wives of Windsor.
- Richard Carew publishes The Survey of Cornwall.[2]
- 1603
- 24 March - Queen Elizabeth I dies and is succeeded by her cousin King James VI of Scotland, thus uniting the crowns of Scotland and England.[3]
- 30 March - In Ireland, the Earl of Tyrone surrenders to the English.[1]
- April - Thomas Cartwright delivers his Millenary Petition, demanding an end to ritualistic practices, and signed by 1,000 Puritan ministers, to the King.[2]
- 28 April - Funeral of Elizabeth I in Westminster Abbey.
- 17 July - Walter Raleigh arrested for treason.[3]
- 21 July - Thomas Howard created the 1st Earl of Suffolk.[4]
- 25 July - Coronation of James I.[3]
- 17 November - Sir Walter Raleigh goes on trial for treason in the converted Great Hall of Winchester Castle.[3]
- First production of Shakespeare's Othello.[2]
- 1604
- 14 January to 16 January - Hampton Court Conference with James I, the Anglican bishops and representatives of Puritans. Work begins on the Authorized King James Version of the Bible.[2]
- 19 March - Parliament assembles and debates Robert Cecil's proposal for union with Scotland.[4]
- 20 June - The Form of Apology and Satisfaction is read out in the House of Commons to justify the conduct of Parliament following a dispute between King and Parliament over a contested election in Buckinghamshire.[4]
- 18 August - The Treaty of London brings an end to the Anglo–Spanish War, an intermittent conflict which had been going on since 1585.[5]
- 7 July - Parliament prorogued.[4]
- 20 October - King James assumes the style king of Great Britain.[6]
- November - Richard Bancroft enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury.
- 1 November – At Whitehall Palace in London, the Shakespeare tragedy Othello is presented for the first time.
- Christopher Marlowe's play The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus published.
- Table Alphabeticall, the first known English Dictionary to be organised by alphabetical ordering, is published.
- 1605
- 5 November - Gunpowder Plot: A plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament is foiled when Sir Thomas Knyvet, a justice of the peace, finds Guy Fawkes in a cellar below the Parliament building and orders a search of the area. Records show 36 barrels of gunpowder were found and Fawkes was arrested for trying to kill King James I and the members who were scheduled to sit together in Parliament the next day.[1]
- 8 November - Gunpowder Plot conspirator Robert Catesby shot while resisting arrest.[2]
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- 1606
- 31 January - Guy Fawkes and his co-plotters are executed by hanging, drawing and quartering.[1]
- 10 April - the London Company is granted a Royal Charter to encourage colonisation in Virginia.[2]
- 12 April - first version of the Union Flag created.[3]
- May - Catholics convicted of recusancy barred from public office by a new Act of Parliament.[2]
- 27 May - the second session of Parliament under King James prorogued.[4]
- 18 November - the third session of Parliament begins.[4]
- 26 December - The first recorded performance of William Shakespeare's King Lear, based on the legend of King Lear of Britain, was held.
- First production of Shakespeare's Macbeth.[2]
- 1607
- May - Midland Revolt against land enclosures.[1]
- 13 May - English settlers establish Jamestown, Virginia.[2]
- 4 July - the third session of Parliament ends, having refused a proposed union with the Parliament of Scotland. It does not assemble again until 1610.[4]
- Ben Jonson's play Volpone published.[1]
- 1608
- First performance of George Chapman's play The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles, Duke of Byron. The play is banned after the French Ambassador complained to the King.[1]
- Thomas Middleton's play A Mad World, My Masters published.[1]
- 1609
- 12 September - Explorer Henry Hudson's ship Halve Maen sails into New York Harbour.[3]
- Hudson explores the Hudson River and Delaware Bay.[1]
- Publication of Shakespeare's Pericles, Prince of Tyre.[1]
- Settlement of Ulster begins: Protestant English and Scots settlers take over forfeited estates of rebel leaders.[2]
[edit] Births
- 1600
- February - Edmund Calamy the Elder, presbyterian (died 1666)
- November John Ogilby, writer and cartographer (died 1676)
- 19 November - King Charles I of England (died 1649)
- Sir Richard Grenville, 1st Baronet, Royalist leader (died 1658)
- Peter Heylin, ecclesiastical writer (died 1662)
- William Prynne, puritan politician (died 1669)
- Brian Walton, divine and scholar (died 1661)
- 1601
- May - Spencer Compton, 2nd Earl of Northampton (died 1643)
- Adrian Scrope, regicide (died 1660)
- Edward Somerset, 2nd Marquess of Worcester (died 1667)
- 1602
- 29 March - John Lightfoot, churchman and rabbinical scholar (died 1675)
- April - William Lawes, composer and musician (died 1645)
- 1 May - William Lilly, astrologer (died 1681)
- 12 October - William Chillingworth, churchman (died 1644)
- 13 October - Algernon Percy, 10th Earl of Northumberland, military leader (died 1668)
- 18 December - Simonds d'Ewes, antiquarian and politician (died 1650)
- John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton (died 1678)
- John Bradshaw, English judge and regicide (died 1659)
- John Greaves, mathematician and antiquary (died 1652)
- Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester (died 1671)
- Henry Marten, regicide (died 1680)
- Dudley North, 4th Baron North (died 1677)
- Owen Feltham, religious writer (died 1668)
- 1603
- January - Shackerley Marmion, dramatist (died 1639)
- 27 January - Harbottle Grimston, politician (died 1685)
- 18 March - Simon Bradstreet, colonial magistrate (died 1697)
- 11 July - Kenelm Digby, privateer and alchemist (died 1665)
- 21 December - Roger Williams, theologian and colonist (died 1684)
- John Ashburnham, Member of Parliament (died 1671)
- Daniel Blagrave, Member of Parliament (died 1668)
- 1604
- 3 August - John Eliot, puritan missionary (died 1690)
- 13 September - William Brereton, soldier and politician (died 1661)
- November - Jasper Mayne, dramatist (died 1672)
- Isaac Ambrose, Puritan divine (died 1664)
- Edward Pococke, Orientalist and biblical scholar (died 1691)
- 1605
- June - Thomas Randolph, poet and dramatist (died 1635)
- August - Bulstrode Whitelocke, lawyer and parliamentarian (died 1675)
- 8 August - Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, colonial Governor of Maryland (died 1675)
- 18 August - Henry Hammond, churchman (died 1660)
- 12 September - William Dugdale, antiquary (died 1686)
- 19 October - Thomas Browne physician and philosopher (died 1682)
- 4 November - William Habington, poet (died 1654)
- William Berkeley, governor of Virginia (died 1677)
- John Gauden, bishop and writer (died 1662)
- Thomas Nabbes, dramatist (died c. 1645)
- Francis Willoughby, 5th Baron Willoughby of Parham (died 1666)
- William Goffe, parliamentarian (died 1679)
- 1606
- 28 February - William Davenant, poet and playwright (died 1668)
- March - Henry Pierrepont, 1st Marquess of Dorchester (died 1680)
- 3 March - Edmund Waller, poet (died 1687)
- 27 September - Richard Busby, clergyman (died 1695)
- Leonard Calvert, governor of Baltimore (died 1647)
- Edmund Castell, orientalist (died 1685)
- Thomas Harrison, puritan soldier and Fifth Monarchist (died 1660)
- Thomas Herbert, traveller and historian (died 1682)
- John Robartes, 1st Earl of Radnor (died 1685)
- Thomas Washbourne, clergyman and poet (died 1687)
- 1607
- 26 November - John Harvard, clergyman and colonist (died 1638)
- Thomas Barlow, Bishop of Lincoln (died 1691)
- John Boys, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (died 1664)
- John Dixwell,judge and regicide (died 1689)
- Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton (died 1667)
- 1608
- June - Richard Fanshawe, diplomat (died 1666)
- 14 July - George Goring, Lord Goring, Royalist soldier (died 1657)
- 6 December - George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, soldier (died 1670)
- 9 December - John Milton, poet (died 1674)
- John Desborough, soldier and politician (died 1680)
- Thomas Fuller, churchman and historian (died 1661)
- Edward Rainbowe, clergyman and a preacher (died 1684)
- John Tradescant the younger, botanist and gardener (died 1662)
- 1609
- 10 February - John Suckling, poet (died 1642)
- 18 February - Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, historian and statesman (died 1674)
- 29 March - Sarah Boyle, noblewoman (died 1633)
- 8 October - John Clarke, physician (died 1676)
- 26 October - William Sprague, co-founder of Charlestown, Massachusetts (died 1675)
- 1 November - Matthew Hale, Lord Chief Justice (died 1676)
- 24 December - Philip Warwick, writer and politician (died 1683)
- Samuel Cooper, miniature painter (died 1672)
- Captain John Underhill, soldier and colonist (died 1672)
- Gerrard Winstanley, Protestant religious reformer (died 1676)
[edit] Deaths
- 1600
- April - Thomas Deloney, writer (born 1543)
- 3 November - Richard Hooker, Anglican theologian (born 1554)
- 1601
- 19 January - Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, statesman (born 1534)
- 25 February - Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, politician (born 1566)
- 27 February - Anne Line, saint (year of birth unknown)
- Thomas North, translator of Plutarch (born 1535)
- John Shakespeare, glover and farmer, father of William Shakespeare (born 1529)
- 1602
- 13 February - Alexander Nowell, clergyman (born 1507)
- October - Thomas Morley, composer (born 1557)
- 29 November - Anthony Holborne, composer (born c. 1545)
- 1603
- 15 January - Catherine Carey, Lady in waiting to Elizabeth I of England (year of birth unknown)
- 24 March - Queen Elizabeth I (born 1533)
- 8 September - George Carey, 2nd Baron Hunsdon, politician (born 1547)
- 9 December - William Watson, conspirator (born 1559)
- 10 December - William Gilbert, scientist (plague) (born 1544)
- 27 December - Thomas Cartwright, Puritan clergyman (born c. 1535)
- Edward Fenton, navigator (year of birth unknown)
- Ralph Lane, explorer (born 1530)
- 1604
- 29 February - John Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury (born 1530)
- 24 June - Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, politician (born 1550)
- 3 December - George Hastings, 4th Earl of Huntingdon (born 1540)
- Thomas Churchyard, author (born 1520)
- Thomas Storer, poet (born 1571)
- Richard Topcliffe, Member of Parliament and torturer (born 1532)
- 1605
- 5 April - Adam Loftus, Catholic archbishop (born c. 1533)
- 6 April - John Stow, historian and antiquarian (born 1525)
- 11 September - Sir Thomas Tresham, politician (born 1550)
- 8 November - Robert Catesby, conspirator (born 1573)
- December - Francis Tresham, conspirator (born 1567)
- 29 December - John Davis, explorer (born 1550)
- 1606
- 30 January
- Everard Digby, conspirator (executed) (born 1578)
- Robert Wintour, conspirator (executed) (born 1565)
- 31 January
- Guy Fawkes, conspirator (executed) (born 1570)
- Ambrose Rokewood, conspirator (executed) (born c. 1578)
- Thomas Wintour, conspirator (executed) (born 1571)
- 3 April - Charles Blount, 1st Earl of Devon, politician (born 1563)
- 3 May - Henry Garnet, Jesuit (executed) (born 1555)
- 20 November - (burial date) John Lyly, writer (born 1553)
- 30 January
- 1607
- May - Edward Dyer, courtier and poet (born 1543)
- 21 May - John Rainolds, scholar and Bible translator (born 1549)
- 10 June - John Popham, Lord Chief Justice (born 1553)
- 7 July - Penelope Blount, Countess of Devonshire (born 1562
- 22 August - Bartholomew Gosnold, explorer and privateer (born 1572)
- 20 December - Sir John Bourke (born 1550)
- Henry Chettle, writer (born 1564)
- 1608
- 13 February - Bess of Hardwick, Countess of Shrewsbury (born 1527)
- 26 February - John Still, bishop (born c. 1543)
- 19 April - Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, statesman and poet (born 1536)
- 19 October - Geoffrey Fenton, writer and politician (born c. 1539)
- December
- John Dee, mathematician, astronomer, and geographer (born 1527)
- William Davison, secretary to Queen Elizabeth I of England (born c. 1541)
- Laurence Tomson, Calvinist theologian (born 1539)
- Edmund Whitelocke, soldier and courtier (born 1565)
- 1609
- 9 March - William Warner, poet (born c. 1558)
- Barnabe Barnes, poet (born 1568)
[edit] References
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