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Date |
Event(s) |
| 1 | 1556 | - 21 Mar 1556: Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer burned at the stake in Oxford
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| 2 | 1558 | - 1558: System of Counties adopted
- 1558: Scottish parish registers start
- 7 Jan 1558: French take Calais, last English possession in France
- 24 Apr 1558: Marriage of Mary, Queen of Scots to Fran
- 17 Nov 1558: Queen Mary Tudor of England dies and is succeeded by her half-sister
Elizabeth
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| 3 | 1559 | - 1559: Tobacco introduced to Europe
- 1559: John Knox returns from Continent
- 15 Jan 1559: Elizabeth crowned in Westminster Abbey by Owen Oglethorpe, the Bishop of
Carlisle
- 29 Apr 1559: Acts of Supremacy passed in Parliament, ending papal jurisdiction over England
& Wales; established Church of England
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| 4 | 1560 | - 1560: Establishment of Protestantism in Scotland
- 27 Feb 1560: Treaty of Berwick between Duc du Chatelherault (as governor of Scotland) and
the English, agreeing to act jointly to expel the French from Scotland
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| 5 | 1561 | - 1561: Spire of St Paul's, highest in England, destroyed by fire
- 1561: The first coins produced by machinery (known as a 'mill') rather than by hand, but it
was a slow process and did not replace hand struck coinage until new machinery was
introduced in 1663
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| 6 | 1562 | - 1562: Earliest English slave-trading expedition, under John Hawkins
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| 7 | 1563 | - 28 Jul 1563: The English surrender Le Havre to the French after a siege
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| 8 | 1564 | - 26 Apr 1564: Shakespeare baptised
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| 9 | 1565 | - 29 Jul 1565: Marriage of Mary, Queen of Scots to Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, her first
cousin
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| 10 | 1566 | - 9 Mar 1566: Murder of David Riccio (or Rizzio) in Holyrood House
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| 11 | 1567 | - 10 Feb 1567: Murder of Darnley outside Holyrood House in an explosion
- 15 May 1567: Marriage of Mary Queen of Scots to James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell
- 24 Jul 1567: Mary Queen of Scots deposed and replaced by her 1 year old son James VI
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| 12 | 1568 | - 13 May 1568: Battle of Langside
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| 13 | 1569 | - 1569: Elizabeth I approved Sunday sports
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| 14 | 1570 | - 25 Feb 1570: Pope Pius V issued the papal bull 'Regnans in Excelsis' to excommunicate
Elizabeth I and her followers in the Church of England
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| 15 | 1571 | - 1571: Presbyterianism introduced into England by Thomas Cartwright
- 1571: Repeal of Act prohibiting lending of money on interest
- 1571: Beginning of penal legislation against Catholics in England
- 23 Jan 1571: Opening of the Royal Exchange in London, founded by Sir Thomas Gresham
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| 16 | 1576 | |
| 17 | 1577 | - 1577: James Burbage opens first theatre in London
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| 18 | 1579 | - 1579: Act of Uniformity in matters of religion enforced
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| 19 | 1580 | - 1580: Congregational movement founded by Robert Browne about this time
- 1580: Colonisation of Ireland
- 6 Apr 1580: Dover Straits earthquake, largest in the recorded history of England, mentioned
by Shakespeare
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| 20 | 1581 | - 1581: English Levant Company founded
- 16 Jan 1581: English Parliament outlaws Roman Catholicism
- 4 Apr 1581: Francis Drake knighted by Elizabeth I aboard the Golden Hind after
circumnavigating the world
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| 21 | 1583 | - 1583: University of Edinburgh founded
- 1583: Foundation of Cambridge University Press by Thomas Thomas
- Aug 1583: Sir Humphrey Gilbert attempts to establish English authority at St John's,
Newfoundland
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| 22 | 1584 | - 4 Jun 1584: Sir Walter Raleigh establishes first English colony in the New World, on
Roanoke Island, Virginia (now in North Carolina)
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| 23 | 1585 | - 1585: Foundation of Oxford University Press
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| 24 | 1587 | - 1587: Introduction of potatoes to England
- 8 Feb 1587: Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, at Fotheringay Castle, near Peterborough
- 19 Apr 1587: Sir Francis Drake sinks the Spanish fleet in Cadiz harbour
- 11 Aug 1587: Raleigh's second expedition to New World lands in North Carolina
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| 25 | 1588 | - 1588: Invention of shorthand by Dr Timothy Bright
- 19 Jul 1588: Spanish Armada sighted off the Lizard (had set sail from Lisbon in late May)
- 29 Jul 1588: Defeat of Spanish Armada off Gravelines
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| 26 | 1591 | - 1591: Trinity College, Dublin, founded
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| 27 | 1592 | - 1592: A Congregational (or Independent) Church formed in London
- 1592: Scotland: Presbyterian Church formally established
- 1592—1596: Seneca nation plague
Seneca nation - Desease Measles
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| 28 | 1593 | - 1593: British statute mile established by law
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| 29 | 1594 | - 1594: Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, leads Irish rebellion against English rule (-1603)
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| 30 | 1596 | - 1596—1692: Spain - Plague
Spain Plague
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| 31 | 1597 | - 1597: Poor Law Act for erection of parish workhouses for the Poor
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| 32 | 1598 | - 1598: Bishop's transcripts of English and Welsh parish registers start
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| 33 | 1600 | - 1600—1650: South America - malaria
Desease Malaria
- 1 Jan 1600: Scotland adopts New Year beginning 1st January (previously 25th March)
- 31 Dec 1600: British East India Company founded
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| 34 | 1601 | - 1601: Great English Poor Law Act passed
- 1601: First use of fruit juice as a preventative for scurvy by James Lancaster
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| 35 | 1602 | - 20 Mar 1602: Dutch East India Company founded
- 8 Nov 1602: Bodleian Library at Oxford University opened to the public
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| 36 | 1603 | - 1603: London Plague
London Desease: Plague
- 24 Mar 1603: Death of Elizabeth I: union of Scottish and English crowns
- 25 Jul 1603: Coronation
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| 37 | 1604 | - 1 Nov 1604: Shakespeare: "Othello" first presented
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| 38 | 1605 | - 5 Nov 1605: Gunpowder plot at Westminster (Guy Fawkes, etc)
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| 39 | 1606 | - 1606: The London Company chartered to colonise Virginia: the Susan Constant, Godspeed,
and Discovery leave England on 19th De c taking 144 days to reach America
- 1606: Episcopacy established in Scotland (against wishes of the Scots)
- 31 Jan 1606: Guy Fawkes and co-conspirators executed
- Mar 1606: Australia
A ship of the Dutch East India Company lands on and explores the western Cape Of York, North Queensland, Australia.
- 12 Mar 1606: Adoption of Union Flag as the flag of "Great Britain" (the term Union Jack is
used officially only when the Union Flag is flown from the Jack Mast of a Royal Naval vessel)
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| 40 | 1607 | - 14 May 1607: Jamestown, Virginia settled
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| 41 | 1608 | - 1608: First use of telescope by Galileo
- 3 Jul 1608: Canada, Quebec
Quebec is founded
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| 42 | 1609 | - 1609: Egypt Plague
Egypt Disease: Plague
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| 43 | 1610 | - 1610: James VI & I established the Episcopal Church in Scotland
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| 44 | 1611 | - 1611: Authorised (King James) Version of Bible in Britain
- 22 May 1611: James VI & I created the title of baronet
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| 45 | 1613 | - 1613: A copper farthing was produced, as a silver coin would be too small
- 29 Jun 1613: The Globe Theatre in London burns during a performance of Henry the Eighth
(finally pulled down in 1644)
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| 46 | 1616 | - 1616—1619: Southern New England Plague
Killed 30% to 90% of population Southern New England, especially the Wampanoag people Unknown cause. Latest research suggests epidemic(s) of Disease Leptospirosis with Disease Weil syndrome. Classic explanations include Yellow fever, Plague, influenza, Smallpox, chickenpox, typhus, and syndemic infection of hepatitis B and hepatitis D.
- 23 Apr 1616: Tuesday Apr 23 (Julian calendar): Death of Shakespeare
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| 47 | 1618 | - 1618: Sir Walter Raleigh beheaded for allegedly conspiring against James I
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| 48 | 1619 | - 4 Dec 1619: (Nov 24 old style): Colonists from Berkeley Parish in England disembark in
Virginia and give thanks to God (considered by many to be the first Thanksgiving in the
Americas)
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| 49 | 1620 | - 1620: Manufacture of coke (the fuel, not the drink!) patented by Dud Dudley
- 21 Dec 1620: (Dec 16 old style): The Mayflower reaches America
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| 50 | 1621 | - 1621: Chimneys to be made of brick and to be four and a half feet above the roof
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| 51 | 1622 | - 1622: First English newspaper appeared - "Weekly News"
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| 52 | 1624 | - 1624: Monopoly Act in England: patents protected
- 1624: Edmund Gunter introduces the surveyor's chain (measurement of length)
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| 53 | 1625 | - 1625: The size of bricks standardised in England around this time
- 27 Mar 1625: Death of King James VI & I
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| 54 | 1628 | - 1 Mar 1628: Writs issued by Charles I that every county in England (not just seaport towns)
pay ship tax by this date
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| 55 | 1629 | |
| 56 | 1630 | |
| 57 | 1633 | - 1633: Thirteen Colonies Plague
The Thirteen Colonies were the British Colonies on the Atlantic coast of North America founded between 1607 (Virginia) and 1733 (Georgia) that joined together to declare independence in 1776. The Plymouth Colony had a plague of Smallpox.
- Jun 1633: Galileo summoned by Inquisition for publishing in favour of Copernican theory
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Abt 1555 - 1633 (~ 78 years)