1570s in England

Events from the 1570s in England.

Incumbents

Monarch - Queen Elizabeth I

Events

• 1570
  • 25 February - Pope Pius V excommunicates Queen Elizabeth I of England with the papal bull Regnans in Excelsis.^[1]
  • Florentine banker Roberto di Ridolfi devises the Ridolfi plot to assassinate Elizabeth and replace her with the Catholic Mary, Queen of Scots.
  • Whitechapel Bell Foundry known to be in existence in London. By the early 21st century it will be the oldest manufacturing company in Great Britain.^[2]
• 1571
  • 23 January - The Royal Exchange officially opened by Queen Elizabeth.^[3]
  • April - Treason Act forbids criticism of the monarchy.^[4]
  • May - All papal bulls declared treasonable by Act of Parliament.^[4]
  • 28 September - Ridolfi plot discovered.^[4]
  • Harrow School founded.^[4]
  • The Pro forma bill is introduced.^[5]
• 1572
  • 2 June - Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk is executed for treason for his part in the Ridolfi plot to restore Catholicism in England.^[6]
  • 11 July - Humphrey Gilbert leads 1500 English volunteers on an expedition to assist the Dutch Sea Beggars in their struggle against Spanish Habsburg rule.^[6]
  • College of Antiquaries founded in London.^[4]
  • Vagabonds Act prescribes punishment for rogues.
• 1573
  • 17 April - English troops capture Edinburgh Castle.^[4]
  • 18 December - Francis Walsingham becomes Secretary of State.^[4]
• 1574
  • 18 August - Treaty of Bristol settles commercial disputes with Spain.^[4]
  • Construction of Longleat House completed.^[4]
• 1575
  • March - Spain opens the port of Antwerp to English traders, in return for Queen Elizabeth agreeing to stop aiding Dutch rebels against Spanish rule.^[4]
  • 7 July - Raid of the Redeswire: Sir John Carmichael of Scotland defeats Sir John Forster of England in a border skirmish which will be the last battle between the two kingdoms.
  • 26 July - Edmund Grindal succeeds Matthew Parker as Archbishop of Canterbury.
  • 14 November - Elizabeth declines an offer of rule over the Netherlands.^[4]
  • Christopher Saxton publishes his County Atlas of England and Wales.^[4]
  • William Byrd and Thomas Tallis are granted a royal monopoly for the publication of most types of music.
• 1576
  • 28 July - Explorer Martin Frobisher discovers Frobisher Bay whilst searching for the Northwest Passage.^[1]
  • December - James Burbage opens London's first permanent public playhouse, The Theatre, in Shoreditch.^[4]
• 1577
  • June - Edmund Grindal suspended for refusing to suppress Puritanism.^[4]
  • 6 July - 'Black Assize' in Oxford results in an outbreak of epidemic typhus killing around three hundred in the city.^[7]
  • 29 November - Seminary priest Cuthbert Mayne executed for treason.^[4]
  • 13 December - Francis Drake leaves on a voyage around the world.^[4]
• 1578
  • 19 November - Walter Ralegh leads an expedition to establish a colony in North America; forced to turn back six months later.^[4]
• 1579
  • 17 June - Drake claims New Albion on the Pacific Coast of North America for England.^[6]
  • The English College for the training of Roman Catholic Priests is established in Rome.^[6]
  • Eastland Company chartered to trade with Scandinavia and the Baltic Sea states.
  • Publication of Edmund Spenser's poetry The Shepheardes Calender.^[6]

Births

• 1570
  • 22 January - Robert Bruce Cotton, politician (died 1631)
  • 13 April - Guy Fawkes, conspirator (died 1606)
  • 28 November - James Whitelocke, judge (died 1632)
  • John Cooper, composer and lutenist (died 1626)
  • John Farmer, composer (died 1601)
  • Simon Grahame, adventurer (died 1614)
  • John Smyth, Baptist minister (died 1612)
• 1571
  • Henry Ainsworth, Nonconformist clergyman and scholar (died 1622)
  • William Bedell, Anglican churchman (died 1642)
  • Thomas Storer, poet (died 1604)
  • Thomas Wintour, Gunpowder Plot conspirator (died 1606)
• 1572
  • 11 June - Ben Jonson, dramatist (died 1637)
  • John Donne, writer and prelate (died 1631)
  • John Floyd, Jesuit (died 1649)
  • Bartholomew Gosnold, lawyer and explorer (died 1607)
  • James Mabbe, scholar and poet (died 1642)
• 1573
  • 15 July - Inigo Jones, architect (died 1652)
  • 7 October - William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1645)
  • Robert Catesby, leader of the Gunpowder Plot (died 1605)
  • Richard Johnson, romance writer (died 1659)
  • John Kendrick, merchant (died 1624)
• 1574
  • 7 March - John Wilbye, composer (date of baptism) (died 1638)
  • June - Richard Barnfield, poet (died 1627)
  • 1 July - Joseph Hall, bishop and satirist (died 1656)
  • 7 August - Robert Dudley, styled Earl of Warwick, explorer and geographer (died 1649)
  • September - Thomas Gataker, clergyman and theologian (died 1654)
• 1575
  • 5 March - William Oughtred, mathematician (died 1660)
  • 14 August - Robert Hayman, poet (died 1629)
  • Lionel Cranfield, 1st Earl of Middlesex, successful London merchant (died 1645)
  • William Parker, 4th Baron Monteagle (died 1622)
  • Arbella Stuart, Duchess of Somerset (died 1615)
  • Cyril Tourneur, dramatist (died 1626)
  • Edmund Bolton, historian and poet (died 1633)
  • Samuel Purchas, travel writer (died 1626)
• 1576
  • October - Thomas Weelkes, composer and organist (died 1626)
  • 7 October - John Marston, writer (died 1634)
  • 12 October - Thomas Dudley, Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony (died 1652)
  • William Ames, Protestant philosopher (died 1633)
  • John Carver, first governor of Plymouth Colony (died 1621)
• 1577
  • 8 February - Robert Burton, scholar (died 1640)
  • 9 July - Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, governor of Virginia (died 1618)
  • William Noy, jurist (died 1634)
  • Barnaby Potter, Bishop of Carlisle (died 1642)
• 1578
  • 2 March - George Sandys, traveller (died 1644)
  • 1 April - William Harvey, physician (died 1657)
  • 16 May - Everard Digby, conspirator (died 1606)
  • Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry, lawyer (died 1640)
  • Ambrose Rokewood, Gunpowder Plot conspirator (died 1606)
  • Francis Manners, 6th Earl of Rutland (died 1632)
• 1579
  • 13 July - Arthur Dee, physician and alchemist (died 1651)
  • December - John Fletcher, writer (died 1625)
  • Jacob Astley, 1st Baron Astley of Reading, royalist commander in the English Civil War (died 1652)
  • Richard Whitbourne, colonist (died 1628)

Deaths

• 1571
  • 12 February - Nicholas Throckmorton, diplomat and politician (born 1515)
  • 1 June - John Story, Catholic (martyred) (born 1504)
  • 23 September - John Jewel, bishop (born 1522)
• 1572
  • January - Robert Pattison, actor(born c. 1535)
  • 10 March - William Paulet, 1st Marquess of Winchester (born c. 1483)
  • 2 June - Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk (born 1536)
  • 24 October - Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby, politician (born 1508)
  • Richard Grafton, merchant (year of birth unknown)
  • Christopher Tye, composer and organist (born 1505)
• 1573
  • 29 July - John Caius, physician (born 1510)
  • William Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Effingham, Lord High Admiral (born 1510)
  • Reginald Wolfe, printer (year of birth unknown)
• 1575
  • 17 May - Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury (born 1504)
  • 14 July - Richard Taverner, Bible translator (born 1505)
• 1576
  • 22 September - Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex (born 1541)
• 1577
  • 12 August - Thomas Smith, scholar and diplomat (born 1513)
  • 7 October - George Gascoigne, poet (born c. 1525)
  • 29 November - Cuthbert Mayne, saint (born 1543)
• 1578
  • 29 March - Arthur Champernowne, admiral (born 1524)
  • 20 June - Thomas Doughty, explorer (executed) (year of birth unknown)
  • 4 August - Thomas Stucley, adventurer (born 1525)
  • Nicholas Heath, Archbishop of York and Lord Chancellor (born 1501)
  • Jane Lumley, translator (born 1537)
• 1579
  • 20 February - Nicholas Bacon, politician (born 1509)
  • 21 November - Thomas Gresham, merchant and financier (born 1519)
  • William Whittingham, Biblical scholar and religious reformer (born 1524)

References

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