1580s in England

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Events from the 1580s in England.

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

Incumbents

Monarch - Elizabeth I of England

Events

1580
- 6 April - Dover Straits earthquake.^[1]
- June - England signs a commercial treaty with the Ottoman Empire.^[2]
- 6 July - New building banned within three miles of the City of London.^[1]
- 7 July - Robert Parsons and Edmund Campion begin a Jesuit mission in an attempt to restore Roman Catholicism to England, having landed the previous month.^[2]
- 26 September - Francis Drake returns to Plymouth from his voyage of circumnavigation on the Golden Hind.^[3]
- First recorded appearance of the ballad Greensleeves.^[4]
1581
- March - Act against Reconciliation to Rome establishes heavy fines for recusancy or attending Catholic Mass.^[1]
- 4 April - Drake knighted by Queen Elizabeth I.^[3]
- 1 December - Execution of the Jesuit priest Edmund Campion for treason.^[2]
1582
- May–August - Robert Browne and his Brownist congregationalist companions are obliged to leave England and go to Middelburg in the Netherlands.^[5]
- 29 November - Marriage of William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway at Temple Grafton.
- Publication of Richard Hakluyt's Divers Voyages Touching the Discoverie of America.
- Publication of the first part of Richard Mulcaster's textbook on the teaching of English, the Elementarie.
1583
- 10 March - Queen Elizabeth's Men troupe of actors founded.
- August - John Whitgift enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury.
- 5 August - Sir Humphrey Gilbert, in what is now the city of St John's, Newfoundland, claims the island of Newfoundland on behalf of England.^[3]
- December - Francis Throckmorton's plot to invade England with the assistance of Henry I, Duke of Guise and replace Elizabeth with Mary, Queen of Scots, is discovered by Francis Walsingham.^[2]
- Lord Chamberlain's Men troupe of actors formed.^[1]
- Publication of Philip Stubbs' tract The Anatomie of Abuses.
1584
- 10 July - Execution of Francis Throckmorton.^[2]
- 19 October - Bond of Association; thousands pledge to defend Queen Elizabeth, and avenge any successful assassination attempt.^[1]
- December - Jesuits and seminary priests banned.^[1]
- Emmanuel College, Cambridge established by Walter Mildmay.^[2]
- Publication of the cookbook A Booke of Cookry.
1585
- 6 January - Walter Raleigh knighted.^[6]
- 2 March - William Parry executed for plotting Queen Elizabeth's murder.^[1]
- 19 May - Spain seizes English ships in Spanish ports.^[1]
- 7 July - England establishes the Roanoke Colony in North America.^[1]
- 14 August - Queen Elizabeth establishes a protectorate over the Netherlands.^[1]
- 20 August - The Treaty of Nonsuch is signed, committing England to support for the Dutch Revolt against Habsburg rule.^[2]
1586
- 4 February - Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester accepts the title governor of the Netherlands.
- July - Thomas Cavendish sets out on a voyage of circumnavigation.
- 1 July - Treaty of Berwick agreed between Queen Elizabeth I of England and King James VI of Scotland.^[1]
- 17 July - Walsingham uncovers the Babington Plot to murder Elizabeth.^[2]
- 28 July - Thomas Harriot returns from a voyage to Colombia with the first potatoes.^[3]
- 20 September - Execution of Anthony Babington, John Ballard, Chidiock Tichborne, Thomas Salisbury and the other conspirators in the Babington Plot.^[2]
- 22 September - Philip Sidney mortally wounded at the Battle of Zutphen; he dies on 17 October.^[2]
- 15 October to 25 October - Mary, Queen of Scots, placed on trial for corresponding with Babington; sentenced to death.^[1]
- William Camden publishes his pioneering antiquarian study Britannia.^[1]
1587
- 8 February - Mary, Queen of Scots, is beheaded at Fotheringay Castle.^[3]
- 1 March - Peter Wentworth imprisoned for demanding freedom of speech.^[1]
- 19 April - Sir Francis Drake raids Cádiz in Spain delaying the sending of the Spanish Armada.^[2]
- 22 July - Roanoke Colony: A group of English settlers arrive on Roanoke Island off North Carolina to re-establish the deserted colony.
- 21 December - Lord Howard of Effingham given command of both army and navy in the war against Spain.^[1]
- The Rose theatre is founded in London by Philip Henslowe.
- Christopher Marlowe's play Tamburlaine the Great first performed in London.^[7]
1588
- 31 May - Spanish Armada sets sail from Tagus estuary in attempted invasion of England.^[1]
- 19 July - The Armada is sighted off The Lizard in Cornwall; the news is relayed to London via a series of beacons built along the south coast.^[1]
- 8 August
  - Queen Elizabeth makes her speech to the Troops at Tilbury.^[3]
  - The English fleet defeats the Armada near Gravelines.
- Marprelate Controversy: a war of pamphlets between Presbyterians and supporters of the established church.^[2]
- Nicholas Hilliard's portrait miniature Young Man Among Roses painted.
1589
- 13 April - An English Armada led by Sir Francis Drake and Sir John Norreys sets sail to attack Spain.^[2]
- Publication of first edition of Richard Hakluyt's The Principal Navigations, Voiages, Traffiques and Discoueries of the English Nation.

Births

1580
- February - John Digby, 1st Earl of Bristol, diplomat (died 1653)
- 8 April - William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke, courtier (died 1630)
- 15 April - George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore, politician and colonizer (died 1623)
- 18 April - (baptism) Thomas Middleton, playwright (died 1627)
- 24 August - John Taylor, poet (died 1654)
- 4 December - Samuel Argall, adventurer and naval officer (died 1626)
- Edward Fairfax, translator (died 1635)
1581
- Edmund Gunter, mathematician (died 1621)
- Thomas Overbury, poet and essayist (died 1613)
1582
- 28 May - William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele, statesman (died 1662)
- John Bainbridge, astronomer (died 1648)
- Richard Corbet, poet (died 1635)
- William Feilding, 1st Earl of Denbigh (died 1643)
- Phineas Fletcher, poet (died 1650)
- William Juxon, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1663)
- Thomas Moulson, Lord Mayor of London (died 1638)
- Francis Windebank, politician (died 1646)
1583
- 3 March - Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, diplomat, poet and philosopher (died 1648)
- 17 December - Robert Bertie, 1st Earl of Lindsey, adventurer and soldier (killed in battle) (died 1642)
- 25 December - Orlando Gibbons, composer (died 1625)
- John Beaumont, poet (died 1627)
- Philip Massinger, dramatist (died 1640)
- Aurelian Townshend, poet (died 1643)
1584
- 29 March - Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, parliamentary general (died 1648)
- 13 August - Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, politician (died 1640)
- 16 December - John Selden, jurist (died 1654)
- William Baffin, explorer (died 1622)
- Francis Beaumont, dramatist (died 1616)
- John Hales, theologian (died 1656)
- Robert Pierrepont, 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull (died 1643)
- John Pym, parliamentarian (died 1643)
1585
- October – John Ball, puritan divine (died 1640)
1586
- 17 April - John Ford, dramatist and poet (died 1640)
- 7 July - Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel, courtier (died 1646)
- 14 August - William Hutchinson, founder of Rhode Island (died 1642)
- Giles Fletcher, poet (died 1623)
- Gerard de Malynes, merchant (died 1641)
- John Mason, explorer (died 1635)
1587
- 5 June - Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick, colonial administrator and admiral (died 1658)
- July - George Yeardley, colonial administrator in America (died 1627)
- Nathaniel Field, dramatist and actor (died 1620)
- Francis Kynaston, courtier and poet (died 1642)
- Robert Sanderson, Bishop of Lincoln (died 1663)
- Virginia Dare, Roanoke colonist
1588
- 5 April - Thomas Hobbes, philosopher (died 1679)
- 11 June - George Wither, poet and satirist (died 1667)
- 18 June - Robert Crowley, printer and poet
- 10 September - Nicholas Lanier, composer (died 1666)
- John Danvers, politician (died 1655)
- Robert Filmer, political writer (died 1653)
- Accepted Frewen, churchman (died 1664)

Deaths

1580
- 30 November - Richard Farrant, composer (born 1530)
- Henry FitzAlan, 19th Earl of Arundel, nobleman (born 1511)
- Thomas Tusser, poet and farmer (born 1524)
- John Heywood, dramatist (born 1497)
1581
- 22 July - Richard Cox, bishop (born 1500)
- 1 December
  - Edmund Campion, Jesuit (executed) (born 1540)
  - Alexander Briant, Jesuit priest (executed) (born 1556)
  - Ralph Sherwin, Catholic priest (executed) (born 1550)
- Nicholas Sanders, Catholic priest and historian (born 1530)
1583
- 9 June - Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland (born 1525)
- 6 July - Edmund Grindal, Archbishop of Canterbury (born 1519)
- 9 September - Humphrey Gilbert, English explorer (born c. 1537)
1584
- 10 March - Thomas Norton, politician and writer (born 1532)
- 10 July - Francis Throckmorton, conspirator against Queen Elizabeth I (born 1554)
- 12 July - Steven Borough, explorer (born 1525)
- 23 July - John Day, Protestant printer (born 1522)
1585
- 16 January - Edward Fiennes Clinton, admiral (born 1512)
- 6 February - Edmund Plowden, legal scholar (born 1518)
- 3 April - Thomas Goldwell, ecclesiastic
- 21 June – Henry Percy, 8th Earl of Northumberland (born 1532)
- 6 July - Thomas Aufield, Catholic martyr (born 1552)
- 28 July – Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford (born 1527)
- 23 November - Thomas Tallis, English composer (born c. 1510)
1586
- 24 March - Margaret Clitherow, Catholic saint and martyr (born 1556)
- 5 May - Henry Sidney, Lord Deputy of Ireland (born 1529)
- 12 July - Edward Sutton, 4th Baron Dudley (born 1525)
- 20 September
  - Sir Anthony Babington, Catholic conspirator (executed) (born 1561)
  - Chidiock Tichborne, conspirator and poet (executed) (born 1558)
- 17 October - Sir Philip Sidney, English poet, courtier, and soldier (born 1554)
1587
- January - Thomas Seckford, official (born 1515)
- 30 March - Ralph Sadler, statesman (born 1507)
- 8 April - John Foxe, author (born 1516)
- 14 April - Edward Manners, 3rd Earl of Rutland (born 1548)
- 16 April - Anne Stanhope, Duchess of Somerset (born 1497)
- Dudley Fenner, puritan divine (born c. 1558)
- George Whetstone, writer (born 1544)
1588
- 18 June - Robert Crowley, London stationer (born 1517)
- 30 August - Margaret Ward, saint (year of birth unknown)
- 3 September - Richard Tarlton, actor (born 1530)
- 4 September - Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, politician (born 1532)
- 1 October - Edward James, Catholic martyr, executed at Chichester (born c. 1557)
- Edwin Sandys, prelate (born 1519)
1589
- 21 February - Ambrose Dudley, 3rd Earl of Warwick (born c. 1528)

References

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1580s in England

Contents

Incumbents

Events

Births

Deaths

References

See also