1590s in England

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Events from the 1590s in England.

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

Incumbents

Monarch - Elizabeth I of England

Events

1590
- Publication of Edmund Spenser's poetry The Faerie Queene^[1] and his satire Mother Hubbard's Tale.
- First production of William Shakespeare's play Henry VI, part 1.^[2]
1591
- 10 April - The merchant James Lancaster sets off on a voyage to the East Indies.^[1]
- August - Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex leads an English army in support of the Protestant Henry IV of France at the Siege of Rouen.^[1]
- 1 September - HMS Revenge captured by the Spanish following battle near the Azores.^[1]
- John Harington translates Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando furioso into English.^[1]
- Approximate date of the writing of the play Richard III by William Shakespeare.^[1]
- Posthumous publication of Sir Philip Sidney's poetry Astrophel and Stella.^[1]
- Nicholas Bacon completes the building of his red brick mansion, Culford Hall, in Suffolk, planting an oak in Culford Park which, as 'King of the Park', will still be flowering in the 21st century.
- The Durtnell (Dartnell) family of Brasted, Kent, begin to work as building contractors. They will still be functioning under the twelfth generation of the family in the 21st century.^[3]
1592
- December - Outbreak of plague in London; 17,000 deaths over the next twelve months.^[2]
- First performance of Shakespeare's play Richard III.^[2]
1593
- January - John Norden commissioned to make maps of all the counties of England.^[2]
- 23 February - Peter Wentworth imprisoned for raising the issue of succession to the throne in Parliament.^[2]
- 6 April - Witches of Warboys: Alice, John and Agnes Samuel found guilty of witchcraft and hanged.^[4]
- 12 May - Arrest of dramatist Thomas Kyd over bills posted in London threatening Protestant refugees from France and the Netherlands.
- 20 May - Dramatist Christopher Marlowe appears before the Privy Council in connection with the bills.
- 29 May - Execution of the Welsh Protestant John Penry suspected of involvement with the Marprelate Controversy.^[1]
- 30 May - Marlowe killed in a brawl in Deptford.^[1]
- Theatres in London closed for most of the year due to a Plague outbreak.^[1]
- Publication of Shakespeare's poem Venus and Adonis.^[1]
1594
- May - Nine Years' War: In Ireland, Hugh O'Neill, 2nd Earl of Tyrone and Hugh Roe O'Donnell form an alliance to try to overthrow English domination.^[1]
- 7 June - Roderigo Lopez executed for allegedly trying to poison Queen Elizabeth.^[2]
- First known performances of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus in London.^[1]
- Publication of Shakespeare's narrative poem The Rape of Lucrece.
- Posthumous publication of Marlowe's play Edward II.^[1]
- Thomas Nashe's picaresque novel The Unfortunate Traveller published.^[5]
- Richard Hooker's Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie commences publication.
- Bevis Bulmer sets up a system at Blackfriars to pump water to London.^[2]
1595
- 21 February - Catholic martyr Robert Southwell hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn, London.^[6]
- 23 July - Spanish raid burns Penzance and Mousehole, Cornwall.^[2]
- 28 August - Sir Francis Drake and Sir John Hawkins depart on their final voyage to the Spanish Main which ends in both of their deaths.^[1]
- Probable first performance of William Shakespeare's plays Richard II, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Romeo and Juliet.^[2]
- Sir Walter Raleigh travels up the Orinoco river in search of the fabled city of El Dorado.^[1]
1596
- 14 February 14 - Archbishop John Whitgift begins building his hospital at Croydon.
- June - Sir John Norreys and Sir Geoffrey Fenton travel to Connaught to parley with the local Irish lords.
- 30 June–4 July - An English fleet, commanded by Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex and Lord Howard of Effingham, sacks Cádiz.^[1]
- November 21 - Bartholomew Steer attempts to launch a rebellion on Enslow Hill in Oxfordshire.^[7]
- Blackfriars Theatre opens in London.^[1]
- First production of Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice.^[2]
- Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge is founded.
- William Slingsby discovers that water from the Tewitt Well mineral spring at Harrogate in North Yorkshire possesses similar properties to that from Spa, Belgium.
- John Harington describes the "Ajax", a precursor to the modern flush toilet, in The Metamorphosis of Ajax.
1597
- Parliament passes the Vagabonds Act introducing penal transportation of convicted criminals to England's colonies.^[1]
- Gresham College founded in the City of London.
- Completion of Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire, designed by Robert Smythson for Bess of Hardwick.^[8]
- Approximate date of the first performance of the Shakespeare plays Henry IV, Part 1, Henry IV, Part 2 and King John.^[1]
- Thomas Nashe and Ben Jonson's satirical comedy The Isle of Dogs performed in July or August before being suppressed by the Privy Council for its "slanderous matter".
- Francis Bacon's first Essays published.
- Thomas Deloney's Jack of Newbury published.^[5]
- John Gerard's The Herball, or generall historie of plantes published.
- John Dowland's The Firste Booke of Songes or Ayres published.
1598
- March - Poor Relief Act establishes early workhouses.^[2]
- 14 August - Nine Years' War: Irish rebel victory over the English at the Battle of the Yellow Ford.^[1]
- 28 December - In London, The Theatre is dismantled and the materials used to begin building the Globe Theatre.^[6]
- Thomas Bodley refounds the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford.^[1]
- Montacute House, Somerset, built, a notable early example of an unfortified country residence built completely from new.
- Publication of the poem Hero and Leander unfinished by Marlowe and completed by George Chapman.^[1]
- Chapman translates Homer's Iliad into English.^[1]
- First performance of Ben Jonson's play Every Man in His Humour.^[1]
- Publication of Francis Meres' Palladis Tamia, Wits Treasury, including the first critical discussion of Shakespeare's works.
- Publication of John Stow's A Survey of London.^[2]
1599
- 1 January - Darcy v. Allein (The Case of Monopolies): The Court of King’s Bench decides it is improper for any individual to be allowed a state monopoly over a trade.^[9]
- 12 March - Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex is appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland by Queen Elizabeth I.
- 23 April - Essex in Ireland: Essex arrives in Dublin.
- 29 May - Nine Years' War: Essex captures Cahir Castle in Munster.
- 15 August - Nine Years' War: Irish rebel victory at the Battle of Curlew Pass.
- 8 September - Essex in Ireland: Essex signs a truce with Hugh O'Neill. He leaves Ireland against the instructions of Queen Elizabeth.^[1]
- 28 September - Essex returns to England and is arrested.^[1]
- Approximate date of the first performances of the Shakespeare plays Julius Caesar, As You Like It, Much Ado About Nothing and Henry V.^[1]
- Globe Theatre built in Southwark.^[1]
- The publisher William Jaggard issues The Passionate Pilgrime, poems attributed to "W. Shakespeare".

Births

1590
- 30 January - Lady Anne Clifford, noblewoman (died 1676)
- May - William Cecil, 17th Baron de Ros (died 1618)
- 19 August - Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland, soldier (died 1649)
- William Bradford, leader of Plymouth Colony (died 1657)
- William Browne, poet (died 1645)
- Henry Somerset, 1st Marquess of Worcester (died 1646)
1591
- 11 January - Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex, English Civil War general (died 1646)
- July - Anne Hutchinson, puritan preacher (died 1643)
- 24 August - Robert Herrick, poet (died 1674)
- Thomas Goffe, dramatist (died 1629)
- William Lenthall, politician of the Civil War period (died 1662)
- Frances Howard, Countess of Somerset (died 1632)
1592
- 20 February - Nicholas Ferrar, trader (died 1637)
- 11 April - Sir John Eliot, statesman (died 1632)
- May - Francis Quarles, poet (died 1644)
- 28 August - George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, statesman (died 1628)
- 5 November - Charles Chauncy, English-born president of Harvard College (died 1672)
- 6 December - William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle (died 1676)
- John Hacket, churchman (died 1670)
- John Jenkins, composer (died 1678)
- Henry King, poet (died 1669)
1593
- 3 April - George Herbert, poet and orator (died 1633)
- 4 April - Edward Nicholas, statesman (died 1669)
- 13 April - Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, statesman (died 1641)
- 9 August - Izaak Walton, writer (died 1683)
- Francis Russell, 4th Earl of Bedford (died 1641)
- Mervyn Tuchet, 2nd Earl of Castlehaven (died 1631)
- George Radcliffe, politician (died 1657)
1594
- 30 November - John Cosin, churchman (died 1672)
- John Bramhall, Anglican clergyman and controversialist (died 1663)
- Peter Oliver, miniaturist (died 1648)
1595
- 5 December - Henry Lawes, musician (died 1662)
- Thomas Carew, poet (died 1640)
- Miles Corbet, Puritan politician (died 1662)
- Henry Herbert, official (died 1673)
- Thomas May, poet and historian (died 1650)
1596
- September - James Shirley, dramatist (died 1666)
- Bevil Grenville, royalist soldier (died 1643)
1597
- 21 August - Roger Twysden, antiquarian and royalist (died 1672)
1598
- Ralph Hopton, 1st Baron Hopton, Royalist commander in the English Civil War (died 1652)
- Marmaduke Langdale, Royalist in the English Civil War (died 1661)
- Gilbert Sheldon, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1677)
- William Strode, parliamentarian (died 1645)
1599
- 25 April - Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland (died 1658)
- 14 August - Méric Casaubon, classicist (died 1671)
- 31 October - Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles, statesman and writer (died 1680)
- John Alden, settler of Plymouth Colony (died 1687)
- Robert Blake, admiral (died 1657)
- Lucy Hay, Countess of Carlisle, socialite (died 1660)

Deaths

1590
- 1 February - Lawrence Humphrey, president of Magdalen College, Oxford (born 1527)
- 6 April - Francis Walsingham, principal secretary to Elizabeth I and spymaster (born 1530)
- 18 November - George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, statesman (born 1528)
- Roger Dudley, soldier (born 1535)
1591
- 1 May - Elizabeth Cecil, 16th Baroness de Ros, noblewoman (born c. 1574)
- 10 September - Richard Grenville, soldier and explorer (born 1542)
- 20 November - Christopher Hatton, politician (born 1540)
- John Stubbs, pamphleteer (born 1543)
1592
- February - Thomas Cavendish, sailor and explorer (born 1555)
- 3 September - Robert Greene, writer (born 1558)
1593
- 23 March - Henry Barrowe, Puritan and separatist (born 1550)
- 6 April - John Greenwood, Puritan and separatist (hanged) (year of birth unknown)
- 30 May - Christopher Marlowe, poet and playwright (born 1564)
- 25 September - Henry Stanley, 4th Earl of Derby (born 1531)
- William Harrison, clergyman (born 1534)
1594
- February
  - Barnabe Googe, poet (born 1540)
  - William Painter, translator (born 1540)
- 29 April - Thomas Cooper, bishop, lexicographer, and writer (born c. 1517)
- 3 June - John Aylmer, divine (born 1521)
- 16 July - Thomas Kyd, author of The Spanish Tragedy (born 1558)
- 25 September - Henry Stanley, 4th Earl of Derby, Lord High Steward (born 1531)
- 16 October - William Allen, cardinal (born 1532)
- 22 November - Martin Frobisher, explorer (born 1535)
- John Johnson, lutenist and composer (born c. 1545)
1595
- 21 February - Robert Southwell, Jesuit priest and poet (born 1561)
- 24 August - Thomas Digges, astronomer (born 1546)
- 19 October - Philip Howard, 20th Earl of Arundel, nobleman (born 1537)
- 12 November - John Hawkins, shipbuilder and trader (born 1532)
- 14 December - Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon (born 1535)
1596
- 27 January - Sir Francis Drake, explorer and soldier (born 1540)
- 23 March - Henry Unton, diplomat (born 1557)
- 23 July - Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon (born 1526)
- 10 November - Peter Wentworth, Puritan politician (born 1530)
- 29 November
  - William Gibson (martyr), Catholic martyr (year of birth unknown)
  - William Knight, Catholic martyr (born 1572)
- Blanche Parry, Personal attendant to Elizabeth I (born c. 1508)
- Henry Willobie, poet (born 1575)
1597
- 6 June - William Hunnis, poet (year of birth unknown)
- James Burbage, actor (born 1531)
- Edward Kelley, spirit medium (born 1555)
1598
- 9 January - Jasper Heywood, classicist and translator (born 1553)
- 4 August - William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, statesman (born 1520)
1599
- 13 January - Edmund Spenser, poet (born 1552)
- 14 April - Henry Wallop, statesman (born c. 1540)

References

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1590s in England

Contents

Incumbents

Events

Births

Deaths

References

See also