1570s in England

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Events from the 1570s in England.

Incumbents[]

Events[]

  • 1570
    • 25 February – Pope Pius V excommunicates Queen Elizabeth I of England with the papal bull Regnans in Excelsis[1] which is affixed to the door of Old St Paul's Cathedral in London on 24 May.
    • 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 2017, when it closes its premises in Whitechapel, it will be the oldest manufacturing company in Great Britain.[2]
    • The home and library of John Dee at Mortlake begin to serve as an informal prototype English academy for gentlemen with scientific interests.[3]
    • Approximate date – Thomas Tallis composes his 40-part motet Spem in alium.
  • 1571
  • 1572
    • May – Hexhamshire is annexed to Northumberland.
    • 2 June – Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, is executed for treason for his part in the Ridolfi plot to restore Catholicism in England.[9]
    • 11 July – Humphrey Gilbert leads 1500 English volunteers on an expedition to assist the Dutch Sea Beggars in their struggle against Spanish Habsburg rule.[9]
    • Formation of 'Thomas Morgan's Company of Foot', a group of 300 volunteers from the London Trained Bands to assist the Dutch, origin of the Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment).[10]
    • Vagabonds Act prescribes punishment for rogues. This includes actors' companies lacking formal patronage.
    • Harrow School founded.[11]
    • Publication of a revised version of the Bishops' Bible.
  • 1573
    • 17 April – English troops capture Edinburgh Castle.[5]
    • 18 December – Francis Walsingham becomes Secretary of State.[5]
    • Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School for Boys established in Barnet at the petition of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester.
    • Humphrey Gilbert produces his proposal for The erection of an achademy in London for educacion of her Maiestes wardes, and others the youth of nobility and gentlemen [sic].
  • 1574
    • 18 August – Treaty of Bristol settles commercial disputes with Spain.[5]
    • Construction of Longleat House completed.[5]
  • 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.[5]
    • 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.[5]
    • Christopher Saxton publishes his County Atlas of England and Wales.[5]
    • William Byrd and Thomas Tallis are granted a royal monopoly for the publication of most types of music.
  • 1576
    • 8 February – Peter Wentworth is imprisoned for speaking in Parliament against royal interference in its affairs.
    • 11 August – Explorer Martin Frobisher discovers Frobisher Bay whilst searching for the Northwest Passage.[1]
    • December – James Burbage opens London's second permanent public playhouse (and the first to have a substantial life), The Theatre, in Shoreditch.[5]
    • The following schools are founded in Kent:
      • Dartford Grammar School, by William d'Aeth, Edward Gwyn and William Vaughn.
      • Sutton Valence School, by William Lambe.
    • William Lambarde's Perambulation of Kent (completed 1570) is published, first of the English county histories.
    • Composer Thomas Whythorne writes a Booke of songs and sonetts with longe discourses sett with them, an early example of autobiographical writing in English.
  • 1577
  • 1578
    • 11 June – Humphrey Gilbert is granted letters patent to establish a colony in North America.[13]
    • 19 November – Humphrey Gilbert and Walter Raleigh set out from Plymouth leading an expedition to establish a colony in North America; forced to turn back six months later.[5]
    • December – Publication of John Lyly's didactic prose romance Euphues: the Anatomy of Wyt, originating the ornate prose style known as Euphuism.
  • 1579
    • 17 June – Drake claims New Albion on the Pacific coast of North America for England.[9]
    • June – Humphrey Gilbert sails in an unsuccessful attempt to intercept Spanish forces sailing to support the Second Desmond Rebellion in Ireland.
    • The English College for the training of Roman Catholic priests is established in Rome.[9]
    • Eastland Company chartered to trade with Scandinavia and the Baltic Sea states.
    • Publication of Edmund Spenser's poetry The Shepheardes Calender.[9]

Births[]

  • 1570
    • 22 January – Robert Bruce Cotton, politician (died 1631)
    • 13 April – Guy Fawkes, Gunpowder Plot conspirator (hanged 1606)
    • 28 November – James Whitelocke, judge (died 1632)
    • John Cooper, composer and lutenist (died 1626)
    • John Farmer, composer (died 1601)
    • Simon Grahame, Scottish-born adventurer (died 1614)
  • 1571
    • ? March – Barnabe Barnes, poet (died 1609)
    • Henry Ainsworth, Nonconformist clergyman and scholar (died 1622)
    • William Bedell, Anglican churchman (died 1642)
    • Charles Butler, beekeeper and philologist (died 1647)
    • Bartholomew Gosnold, lawyer and explorer (died 1607)
    • Thomas Storer, poet (died 1604)
    • Thomas Wintour, Gunpowder Plot conspirator (hanged 1606)
  • 1572
    • 22 January – John Donne, writer and prelate (died 1631)
    • c. 3 March – Robert Catesby, leader of the Gunpowder Plot (killed 1605)
    • 11 June – Ben Jonson, dramatist (died 1637)
    • John Floyd, Jesuit (died 1649)
    • James Mabbe, scholar and poet (died 1642)
  • 1573
  • 1574
    • 7 March (bapt.) – John Wilbye, composer (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)
    • 4 September – Thomas Gataker, clergyman and theologian (died 1654)
  • 1575
    • 5 March – William Oughtred, mathematician (died 1660)
    • 14 August – Robert Hayman, poet (died 1629)
    • Edmund Bolton, historian and poet (died 1633)
    • 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)
  • 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)
    • Possible date – 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)
    • 11 August (bapt.) – Barnaby Potter, Bishop of Carlisle (died 1642)
    • 20 November (bapt.) – Samuel Purchas, travel writer (died 1626)
    • Robert Cushman, Plymouth Colony settler (died 1625)
    • William Noy, lawyer and politician (died 1634)
    • Henry Somerset, 1st Marquess of Worcester (died 1646)
  • 1578
    • 2 March – George Sandys, traveller (died 1644)
    • 1 April – William Harvey, physician (died 1657)
    • 16 May – Everard Digby, Gunpowder Plot conspirator (hanged 1606)
    • 24 August – John Taylor, "The Water Poet" (died 1653)
    • Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry, lawyer (died 1640)
    • Francis Manners, 6th Earl of Rutland (died 1632)
    • Ambrose Rookwood, Gunpowder Plot conspirator (hanged 1606)
  • 1579
    • 13 July – Arthur Dee, physician and alchemist (died 1651)
    • 20 December (bapt.) – John Fletcher, playwright (died 1625)
    • Jacob Astley, 1st Baron Astley of Reading, royalist commander in the English Civil War (died 1652)

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
  • 1573
    • 12 January – William Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Effingham, Lord High Admiral (born 1510)
    • 14 May (bur.) – Richard Grafton, merchant and printer (born c. 1506/7 or 1511)
    • 29 July – John Caius, physician (born 1510)
    • Late – Reginald Wolfe, printer (year of birth unknown)
  • 1574
    • circa 7 November - Robert White, composer (born 1538)
  • 1575
  • 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)
    • 27 July – Jane Lumley, translator (born 1537)
    • 4 August – Thomas Stucley, adventurer (born 1525)
    • December – Nicholas Heath, Archbishop of York and Lord Chancellor (born 1501)
  • 1579
    • 20 February – Nicholas Bacon, politician (born 1509)
    • 20 May – Isabella Markham, courtier (born 1527)
    • 10 June – William Whittingham, Biblical scholar and religious reformer (born 1524)
    • 21 November – Thomas Gresham, merchant and financier (born 1519)

References[]

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  2. ^ "500 Years of History". Whitechapel Bell Foundry. Retrieved 5 November 2010.
  3. ^ French, Peter J. John Dee. pp. 60, 171–2.
  4. ^ "Chambers' Book of Days, January 23rd". Archived from the original on 24 December 2007. Retrieved 23 December 2007.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 156–159. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
  6. ^ Halio, Jay L. (2000). Understanding The Merchant of Venice: A Student Casebook. Greenwood. pp. 123–5. ISBN 9780313310119.
  7. ^ Hibbert, Christopher, ed. (1988). The Encyclopædia of Oxford. London: Macmillan. p. 198. ISBN 0-333-39917-X.
  8. ^ "The Library of Parliament's research tool for finding information on legislation". Library of Parliament. 28 January 2010. Archived from the original on 2 February 2010. Retrieved 28 January 2010.
  9. ^ a b c d e Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 226–229. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
  10. ^ Beckett, Ian (2003). Discovering English County Regiments. Shire. p. 52. ISBN 978-0-747-80506-9.
  11. ^ Tyerman, Christopher (2000). A History of Harrow School. Oxford University Press. pp. 8–17. ISBN 0-19-822796-5.
  12. ^ The Nuttall Encyclopædia. 1907.
  13. ^ Letters Patent to Sir Humfrey Gylberte June 11, 1578, from the Avalon Project
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