1560s in England

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Events from the 1560s in England.

1 Incumbents
2 Events
3 Births
4 Deaths
5 References
6 See also

Incumbents

Monarch - Elizabeth I of England

Events

1560
- 6 July - Treaty of Edinburgh between England, France and Scotland. The French withdraw from Scotland and recognise Elizabeth I of England.^[1]
1561
- May - St. Paul's Cathedral in London is badly damaged by fire and the spire is destroyed after being struck by lightning.^[1]^[2]
- Reform of coinage to combat debasement.^[3]
1562
- 18 January - First performance of Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville's play Gorboduc before Queen Elizabeth I. It is the first known English tragedy and the first English language play to employ blank verse.^[4]
- 20 September - Treaty of Hampton Court between Queen Elizabeth and Huguenot leader Louis I de Bourbon, prince de Condé.^[1]
- October - John Hawkins initiates the trans-Atlantic slave trade, shipping slaves from Sierra Leone to Hispaniola.^[3]
- 4 October - English troops occupy Le Havre in France in aid of the Huguenots.^[1]
- Church of England approves the Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion, defining its doctrinal stance.^[3]
1563
- March - Poor Relief Act requires wealthier parishes to help their poorer neighbours.^[3]
- April - Parliament passes laws requiring Justices of the Peace to arbitrate trade disputes and conditions of apprenticeship.^[3]
- June to October - Outbreak of plague in London kills over 20,000.^[3]
- Publication of Foxe's Book of Martyrs, John Foxe's account of Protestant persecution during the reign of Mary I of England.^[1]
- Publication of John Shute's The First and Chief Groundes of Architecture, the first work in English on architecture.^[5]
1564
- Treaty of Troyes: England receives monetary compensation for renouncing its claims to Calais.^[3]
1565
- Thomas Gresham founds the Royal Exchange in London.
- College of Physcians of London first licensed to carry out human dissection.^[3]
- John Hawkins brings the first tobacco to England.^[3]
1566
- Henry Sidney leads a punitive expedition to Ulster.^[3]
- June - German miners find calamine (needed for production of brass) in the Mendip Hills.^[6]
- Autumn - Probable completion of the Exeter Canal, the first in England, and with the first use of a Pound lock in England (engineer: John Trew of Glamorgan).^[3]^[7]
1567
- 2 January - Parliament dissolved as Queen Elizabeth refuses to name a successor.^[3]
- Jean Carré arrives in England from Antwerp and obtains a royal monopoly for the production of window glass on condition that the techniques would be taught to native Englishmen.^[8]^[9]

1568

- 19 May - Mary, Queen of Scots, flees from Scotland to England but is taken prisoner and put in Carlisle Castle.
- 28 May - Incorporation of two monopolies in metalliferous mining, the Society of Mines Royal and the Company of Mineral and Battery Works.
- 26 September - Spain seizes English ships off the coast of Mexico, and confiscates their cargo.^[3]
- December - English seize bullion from Spanish ships at Plymouth.^[3]
- The Bishops' Bible (The Holie Bible) published.
1569
- 11 January - The first known lottery in England is drawn outside St Paul's Cathedral.^[10]
- 20 January - Mary, Queen of Scots, detained at Tutbury Castle.^[3]
- November–December - Rising of the North: Charles Neville, 6th Earl of Westmorland and Thomas Percy, 7th Earl of Northumberland lead a rebellion against Queen Elizabeth I in an attempt to place the Catholic Mary, Queen of Scots, on the English throne. Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex drives the Earls out of England.^[1]

Births

1560
- 3 January - John Bois, Bible translator (died 1643)
1561
- 22 January - Francis Bacon, philosopher, scientist, and statesman (died 1626)
- 24 August - Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk (died 1626)
- 27 October - Mary Sidney, writer, patroness and translator (died 1621)
- 9 December - Edwin Sandys, founder of the colony of Virginia (died 1629)
- John Harington, writer (died 1612)
- Samuel Harsnett, Archbishop of York (died 1631)
- Stephen Bachiler, non-conformist minister and pioneer settler of New England (died 1656)
1562
- 19 October - George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1633)
- John Bull, composer (died 1628)
- Henry Constable, poet (died 1613)
- Samuel Daniel, poet and historian (died 1619)
- Francis Godwin, writer and prelate (died 1633)
- Richard Neile, churchman (died 1640)
- Penelope Blount, Countess of Devonshire (died 1607)
- Henry Spelman, antiquary (died 1641)
1563
- 5 March - John Coke, politician (died 1644)
- 1 June - Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, statesman and spymaster (died 1612)
- 19 November - Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester, statesman (died 1626)
- 19 December - Lord William Howard (died 1640)
- Charles Blount, 1st Earl of Devonshire (died 1606)
- John Dowland, composer (died 1626)
- Michael Drayton, poet (died 1631)
- Robert Naunton, politician and writer (died 1635)
- Joshua Sylvester, poet (died 1618)
1564
- 26 February (baptised) - Christopher Marlowe, poet and dramatist (died 1593)
- 26 April (baptised) - William Shakespeare, poet and dramatist (died 1616)
- 27 April - Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland (died 1632)
- 24 September - William Adams, navigator and samurai (died 1620)
- 22 November - Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham, peer and traitor (died 1619)
- Henry Chettle, dramatist (died 1607)
- Thomas Morton, churchman (died 1659)
- Thomas Shirley, pirate (died 1620)
1565
- Edward Blount, printer (died 1632)
- 10 November - Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, politician (died 1601)
- Ferdinando Gorges, colonial entrepreneur (died 1647)
- George Kirbye, composer (died 1634)
- Francis Meres, churchman and author (died 1647)
- Francis Tanfield, Governor of the South Falkland colony (year of death unknown)
- Edmund Whitelocke, soldier and courtier (died 1608)
- Robert Wintour, conspirator (died 1606)
1566
- 19 June - King James I of England (died 1625)
- 1 September - Edward Alleyn, actor (died 1626)
- 20 December - Edward Wightman, Baptist martyr (died 1612)
1567
- 12 February - Thomas Campion, poet and composer (died 1620)
- November - Thomas Nashe, poet (died 1600)
- William Alabaster, poet (died 1640)
- Edward Sutton, 5th Baron Dudley (died 1643)
- Thomas Lake, Secretary of State to King James I (died 1630)
1568
- Richard Baker, chronicler (died 1645)
- Barnabe Barnes, poet (died 1609)
- Edward Chichester, 1st Viscount Chichester (died 1648)
- Gervase Markham, poet and writer (died 1637)
- Edward Somerset, 4th Earl of Worcester (died 1628)
- Henry Wotton, author and diplomat (died 1639)
1569
- 16 April - John Davies, poet and lawyer (died 1626)
- September - Arthur Lake, Bishop of Bath and Wells, one of the translators of the King James Bible (died 1626)
- Tobias Hume, composer (died 1645)
- William Monson, admiral (died 1643)
- John Suckling, politician (died 1627)

Deaths

1560
- 8 September - Amy Robsart, noblewoman (born 1532)
- John Sheppard, composer and organist (born 1515)
1561
- 1 September - Edward Waldegrave, policitian and recusant (born c. 1516)
1562
- Nicholas Grimald, poet and theologian (born 1519)
1563
- 9 June - William Paget, 1st Baron Paget, statesman (born 1506)
- 17 September - Henry Manners, 2nd Earl of Rutland, soldier (born 1526)
- Elizabeth Seymour, noblewoman (born 1513)
- John Shute, architect
1565
- 14 October - Thomas Chaloner, statesman and poet (born 1521)
- Katherine Champernowne, Governess of Elizabeth I (year of birth unknown)
1566
- Richard Edwards, poet (born 1523)
- Thomas Hoby, diplomat and translator (born 1530)
1567
- 26 January - Nicholas Wotton, diplomat (born c. 1497)
- 12 June - Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich, Lord Chancellor (born 1490)
- Thomas Beccon, Protestant reformer (born 1511)
- Lawrence Sheriff, gentleman and grocer to Elizabeth I (born 1510)
1568
- 15 January - Catherine Carey, Chief Lady of the Bedchamber to Elizabeth I (born c. 1526)
- 20 January - Myles Coverdale, Bible translator (born c. 1488)
- 26 January - Lady Catherine Grey, Countess of Hertford (born 1539)
- 7 July - William Turner, ornithologist and botanist (born 1508)
- 23 August - Thomas Wharton, 1st Baron Wharton (born 1495)
- 23 December - Roger Ascham, tutor of Elizabeth I (born 1515)
- Henry Sutton Dudley, soldier and sailor (born 1517)
1569
- 5 September - Edmund Bonner, Bishop of London (born c. 1500)

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 223–226. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
^ Weinreb, Ben; Hibbert, Christopher (1995). The London Encyclopaedia. Macmillan. p. 287. ISBN 0-333-57688-8.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 153–156. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
^ "Gorboduc, or the Tragedy of Ferrex and Porrox". Archived from the original on 2007-09-17. http://web.archive.org/web/20070917205947/http://www.innertemple.org.uk/archive/gorboduc.html. Retrieved 2007-11-14.
^ "Art & Architecture, #58". Jewels in Her Crown: Treasures of Columbia University Libraries Special Collections. Columbia University Libraries. 2004. http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eresources/exhibitions/treasures/html/58.html. Retrieved 2011-02-01.
^ Burke, James (1978). Connections. London: Macmillan. p. 167. ISBN 0-333-24827-9.
^ Clew, Kenneth R. (1984). The Exeter Canal. Chichester: Phillimore. ISBN 0-85033-544-2.
^ Burke, James (1978). Connections. London: Macmillan. p. 163. ISBN 0-333-24827-9.
^ Willmott, Hugh (2005). A History of English Glassmaking AD 43-1800. Stroud: Tempus Publishing. ISBN 9780752431314.
^ ""January 11th, Chambers' Book of Days". http://www.thebookofdays.com/months/jan/11.htm. Retrieved 2007-12-13.

1560s in England

Contents

Incumbents

Events

Births

Deaths

References

See also