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Events from the 1590s in England.
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Incumbents
Monarch - Elizabeth I of England
Events
- 1590
- Publication of Edmund Spenser's poetry The Faerie Queene.[1]
- 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]
- The 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]
- 1592
- December - Outbreak of plague in London; 17,000 deaths over the next twelve months.[2]
- First performance of Shakspeare'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 Samuels found guilty of witchcraft and hanged.[3]
- 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]
- Writing 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]
- Posthumous publication of Marlowe's play Edward II.[1]
- 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.[4]
- 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]
- First performance of William Shakespeare's plays 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
- 30 June–4 July - An English fleet, commanded by Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex and Lord Howard of Effingham, sacks Cádiz.[1]
- Blackfriars Theatre opens in London.[1]
- First production of Shakspeare's Merchant of Venice.[2]
- 1597
- Parliament passes the Vagabonds Act 1597 introducing penal transportation of convicted criminals to England's colonies.[1]
- Approximate date of the first performance of the Shakespeare plays Henry IV, Part 1, Henry IV, Part 2 and King John.[1]
- 1598
- March - Poor Relief Act established 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.[4]
- Thomas Bodley refounds the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford.[1]
- 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 John Stow's A Survey of London.[2]
- 1599
- 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]
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)
- Dud Dudley, metallurgist (died 1684)
- 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)
- February
- 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
- 28 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
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Palmer, Alan & Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd, 163-165. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- ^ "Witches of Warboys, Warboys Community Primary School website". Retrieved on 2007-11-21.
- ^ a b (2006) Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. ISBN 0-141-02715-0.
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