1580s in England
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Events from the 1580s in England.
Incumbents
Monarch - Elizabeth I
Events
- 1580
- March - Thomas Legge's Richardus Tertius, the first known history play performed in England, is acted at St John's College, Cambridge.
- 6 April - Dover Straits earthquake.[1][2]
- June - England signs a commercial treaty with the Ottoman Empire.[3]
- 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.[3]
- 26 September - Francis Drake returns to Plymouth from his voyage of circumnavigation (westabout) on the Golden Hind,[4] the first made by an Englishman.
- First recorded appearance of the ballad Greensleeves.[5]
- 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[4] aboard the Golden Hind at Deptford.
- 1 December - Execution of the Jesuit priest Edmund Campion for treason.[3]
- 1582
- May–August - Robert Browne and his Brownist congregationalist companions are obliged to leave England and go to Middelburg in the Netherlands.[6]
- 26 July - Battle of Ponta Delgada (Anglo-Spanish War): English mercenary galleons are among the fleet decisively defeated by the Spanish in the Azores.
- 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.[4]
- 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.[3]
- 10 December - Great fire of Nantwich in Cheshire breaks out.[7]
- Lord Chamberlain's Men troupe of actors formed.[1]
- Publication of Philip Stubbs' tract The Anatomie of Abuses.
- 1584
- 11 January - Sir Walter Mildmay is granted a royal licence to found Emmanuel College, Cambridge.[3][8]
- 10 July - Execution of Francis Throckmorton.[3]
- 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]
- The landmark decision in Heydon's Case introduces the mischief rule into the interpretation of statutes by the courts.[9]
- Publication of the cookbook A Booke of Cookry.
- 1585
- 6 January - Walter Ralegh knighted.[10]
- 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]
- 8 August - English explorer John Davis enters Cumberland Sound in Baffin Island in his quest for the Northwest Passage.
- 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.[3]
- 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.[3]
- 28 July - Thomas Harriot returns from a voyage to Colombia with the first potatoes.[4]
- 20 September - Execution of Anthony Babington, John Ballard, Chidiock Tichborne, Thomas Salisbury and the other conspirators in the Babington Plot.[3]
- 22 September - Philip Sidney mortally wounded at the Battle of Zutphen; he dies on 17 October.[3]
- 15 October to 25 October - Mary, Queen of Scots, placed on trial for corresponding with Babington and sentenced to death.[1]
- William Camden publishes his pioneering antiquarian study Britannia.[1]
- William Warner first publishes his long historical poem Albion's England.[11]
- Oxford University Press is recognised by decree of the Star Chamber.[12]
- From about this date an informal College or Society of Antiquaries begins to meet.[13]
- 1587
- 8 February - Mary, Queen of Scots, is beheaded at Fotheringay Castle.[4]
- 1 March - Sir Anthony Cope and Sir Peter Wentworth are imprisoned for attempting to bring forward Parliamentary legislation interfering with the Queen's ecclesiastical prerogative.[1]
- 19 April (29 April New Style) - "Singeing the King of Spain's Beard": On an expedition against Spain, privateer Sir Francis Drake leads a raid in the Bay of Cádiz, sinking at least 23 ships of the Spanish fleet and delaying the sending of the Spanish Armada.[3]
- 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]
- Late (probable date) - The first part of Christopher Marlowe's drama Tamburlaine the Great is performed in London[14] by the Admiral's Men with Edward Alleyn playing the lead.
- The Rose theatre is founded in London by Philip Henslowe.
- The doctrine Cuius est solum, eius est usque ad coelum et ad inferos is established in common law by Edward Coke.[15]
- 1588
- 1 January - The Children of Paul's act at the court of Queen Elizabeth, probably performing John Lyly's Gallathea.
- 28–30 May - The Spanish Armada sets sail from the Tagus estuary for an 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]
- 21 July - The first engagement between the English and Spanish fleets, off Plymouth, results in an English victory. The English fleet is under the command of Lord Howard of Effingham with Sir Francis Drake as Vice Admiral.
- 23 July - The English and Spanish fleets meet again, off Portland; the English again have the better of it.
- 28 July - The English send fire ships into the French fleet, now anchored off Calais, breaking their formation.
- 29 July - The English fleet defeats the Armada at the Battle of Gravelines.[16]
- 2 August - The fleeing Spanish fleet sails past the Firth of Forth and the English call off their pursuit. Much of the Spanish fleet will be destroyed by storms as it sails for home around Scotland and Ireland.
- 9 August - Queen Elizabeth makes her speech to the Troops at Tilbury.[4]
- 1 October - Oaten Hill Martyrs: four Catholics are hanged, drawn and quartered at Canterbury.[17]
- October–November - The Marprelate Controversy, a war of pamphlets between Presbyterians and supporters of the established church, breaks out with publication of the Epistle by "Martin Marprelate" on Robert Waldegrave's secret press at Molesey and Fawsley.[3][18]
- George Gower paints the Armada Portrait of Queen Elizabeth.
- Nicholas Hilliard paints the portrait miniature Young Man Among Roses.
- First record of marbles being played at Tinsley Green, West Sussex.[19]
- 1588–1589 - Earliest probable date for the composition and first performance of Christopher Marlowe's The Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus in London.
- 1589
- 13 April - An English Armada led by Sir Francis Drake and Sir John Norreys and largely financed by private investors sets sail to attack the Iberian Peninsula's Atlantic coast[3] but fails to achieve any naval advantage.
- 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
- 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)
- Nathan 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 (bapt.) - Nicholas Lanier, composer and musician (died 1666)
- John Danvers, politician (died 1655)
- Robert Filmer, political writer (died 1653)
- Accepted Frewen, churchman (died 1664)
Deaths
- 1580
- 24 February - Henry FitzAlan, 19th Earl of Arundel, nobleman (born 1511)
- 3 May - Thomas Tusser, poet and farmer (born 1524)
- 30 November - Richard Farrant, composer (born 1530)
- 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
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 160–162. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- ↑ Churchyard, Thomas (April 8, 1580). A Warning to the Wyse, a Feare to the Fond, a Bridle to the Lewde, and a Glasse to the Good; written of the late Earthquake chanced in London and other places, the 6th of April, 1580, for the Glory of God and benefit of men, that warely can walk, and wisely judge; Set forth in verse and prose. London.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 230–233. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
- ↑ Kidson, Frank (2008). English Folk-Song and Dance. Read Books. p. 26. ISBN 1-4437-7289-5.
- ↑ Moody, Michael E. (2004). "Browne, Robert (1550?–1633)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/3695. Retrieved 2011-10-10. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
- ↑ Lake, Jeremy (1983). The Great Fire of Nantwich. Nantwich: Shiva Publishing. ISBN 0-906812-57-7.
- ↑ Ford, L. L. (2004). "Mildmay, Sir Walter (1520/21–1589)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/18696. Retrieved 2013-09-02.
- ↑ 76 ER 637, 3 CO REP 7a, Pasch 26 Eliz, plea began 20 Eliz Rot 140.
- ↑ Nicholls, Mark; Williams, Penry (2004). "Raleigh, Sir Walter (1554–1618)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/23039. Retrieved 2011-10-10.
- ↑ Birley, Robert (1962). "William Warner, Albions England". Sunk Without Trace: some forgotten masterpieces reconsidered. London: Rupert Hart-Davis. pp. 11–39.
- ↑ Carter, Harry (1975). A History of the Oxford University Press. Oxford: Clarendon Press. pp. 17–22.
- ↑ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
- ↑ The Hutchinson Factfinder. Helicon. 1999. ISBN 1-85986-000-1.
- ↑ Bury v. Pope, Cro. Eliz. 118 [78 Eng. Rep. 375].
- ↑ Rickard, J. (2000-09-06). "Battle of Gravelines, 29 July 1588". History of War. Retrieved 2012-09-27.
- ↑ Wagner, Peter; Davis, Pat; Sauter, John; McKeone, John (1999-01-07). "Oaten Hills Martyrs". RCNet. Retrieved 2012-06-06.
- ↑ Pierce, William (1908). A Historical Introduction to the Marprelate Tracts. London: Constable. pp. 155–60. Retrieved 2013-01-27.
- ↑ "Sport: At Tinsley Green", Time, 1939-04-17, retrieved 2010-01-13
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