1560s in England

none Events from the 1560s in England. Incumbents Monarch – Elizabeth I Events 1560 27 February – Treaty of Berwick: Terms agreed with the Lords of the Congregation in the Kingdom of Scotland for English forces to enter Scotland to expel French troops defending the Regency of Mary of Guise. 6 July – Treaty of Edinburgh between England, France and Scotland, ending the Siege of Leith. The French withdraw from Scotland, largely ending the Auld Alliance between the two countries, and recognise Elizabeth I of England.Williams Hywel Cassell's Chronology of World History https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will registration London Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2005 0-304-35730-8 223–226 Solihull School founded. 1561 1 March – Kingston Grammar School is chartered. 4 June – the spire of Old St Paul's Cathedral in the City of London catches fire and crashes through the nave roof, probably as the result of a lightning strike. The spire is not rebuilt.The London Encyclopaedia Ben Weinreb Hibbert Christopher Macmillan 1995 0-333-57688-8 287 25 June – astrologer Francis Coxe is pilloried at Cheapside in London, and makes a public confession of his involvement in "sinistral and divelysh artes".BBC History Magazine 12:6 (June 2011) p.13. August – English merchant Anthony Jenkinson arrives in Moscow on his second expedition to the Grand Duchy of Moscow. Merchant Taylors' School is founded in the City of London by Sir Thomas White, Sir Richard Hilles, Emanuel Lucar and Stephen Hales, with Richard Mulcaster as first headmaster.http://www.merchanttaylors.co.uk/company/history.html Timeline Of Merchant Taylors' Company The Merchant Taylors' Company 2021-02-05 https://web.archive.org/web/20070610120254/http://www.merchanttaylors.co.uk/company/history.html 2007-06-10 dead Reform of coinage to combat debasement. The first Calvinists settle in England, after fleeing Flanders. First publication (anonymously in London) of William Baldwin's Beware the Cat (written 1553), an early example of extended fiction (and specifically of horror fiction) in English. This edition appears to have been suppressed and no copies survive.Ringler, William A. Flachmann, Michael Preface Beware the Cat San Marino, CA Huntington Library 1988 1562 18 January – first performance of Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville's play Gorboduc before Queen Elizabeth I. It is the first known English tragedy and the first English language play to employ blank verse.http://www.innertemple.org.uk/archive/gorboduc.html Gorboduc, or the Tragedy of Ferrex and Porrox 2007-11-14 https://web.archive.org/web/20070917205947/http://www.innertemple.org.uk/archive/gorboduc.html 2007-09-17 dead March – Anthony Jenkinson has an audience with Ivan the Terrible in Moscow before continuing his expedition to Qazvin, capital of the Safavid dynasty in Persia. 20 September – Treaty of Hampton Court between Queen Elizabeth and Huguenot leader Louis, Prince of Condé. October – John Hawkins initiates the trans-Atlantic slave trade, shipping slaves from Sierra Leone to Hispaniola. 4 October – English troops occupy Le Havre in France in aid of the Huguenots. Church of England approves the Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion, defining its doctrinal stance. Publication of the metrical psalter The Whole Booke of Psalmes, Collected into English Meter, compiled mostly by Thomas Sternhold and John Hopkins and printed by John Day.Miller Miriam Day, John http://www.grovemusic.com/ Grove Music Online Macy, L. 2008-01-04 2008-05-16 https://web.archive.org/web/20080516041031/http://www.grovemusic.com/ dead Subscription required.Smith Jeremy L. 2003 Thomas East and Music Publishing in Renaissance England https://archive.org/details/thomaseastmusicp00smit limited New York Oxford University Press 0-19-513905-4 24 Dudley Grammar School established and Gresham's School granted a royal charter. 1563 March Poor Relief Act requires wealthier parishes to help their poorer neighbours. First English-language edition of Foxe's Book of Martyrs, John Foxe's account of Protestant persecution during the reign of Mary I of England, is printed by John Day in London. April – Parliament passes laws requiring Justices of the Peace to arbitrate trade disputes and conditions of apprenticeship. June to October – 1563 London plague outbreak kills over 20,000. 28 July – the English surrender Le Havre to the French after a siege. Publication of John Shute's The First and Chief Groundes of Architecture, the first work in English on architecture.http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eresources/exhibitions/treasures/html/58.html Art & Architecture, #58 Jewels in Her Crown: Treasures of Columbia University Libraries Special Collections Columbia University Libraries 2004 2011-02-01 1564 11 April – Treaty of Troyes: England receives monetary compensation for renouncing its claims to Calais. 30 April – consecration of new St Michael the Archangel parish church at Woodham Walter in Essex, probably the first new post-Reformation Church of England place of worship.http://www.stmichaelsww.org.uk/4.html History St. Michael the Archangel, Woodham Walter 2004 2015-01-05 https://web.archive.org/web/20150105001604/http://www.stmichaelsww.org.uk/4.html 2015-01-05 live July – Anthony Jenkinson returns to London from his second expedition to the Grand Duchy of Moscow, having gained a considerable extension of trading rights for the English Muscovy Company. 1565 Thomas Gresham founds the Royal Exchange in London. College of Physicians of London first licensed to carry out human dissection. John Hawkins brings the first tobacco to England. Protestant weavers from Flanders, fleeing persecution, settle in Colchester.A Brief History Of Colchester, Essex, England Tim Lambert http://www.localhistories.org/colchester.html A World History Encyclopedia 2012-08-18 Hinchingbrooke School is established as Huntingdon Grammar School. 1566 Henry Sidney leads a punitive expedition to Ulster. March – Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury, issues the Book of Advertisements as an attempt to standardise certain church practices, most significantly regarding vestments.Ward, Bernard. "Book of Advertisements." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 1. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1907. 15 Oct. 2010 <https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01167a.htm>. June – German miners find calamine (needed for production of brass) in the Mendip Hills.James Burke (science historian) James Burke Connections https://archive.org/details/connections00burk_351 limited London Macmillan 1978 0-333-24827-9 167 Autumn – probable completion of the Exeter Canal, the first in England, and with the first use of a pound lock in England (engineer: John Trew from Glamorgan).Kenneth R. Clew The Exeter Canal Chichester Phillimore 1984 0-85033-544-2 1567 2 January – Parliament dissolved as Queen Elizabeth refuses to name a successor. John Brayne builds the Red Lion theatre just east of the City of London, a playhouse for touring productions and the first known to be purpose-built in the British Isles since Roman times. However, there is little evidence that the theatre survives beyond this summer's season.Bowsher Julian Miller Pat The Rose and the Globe – Playhouses of Shakespeare's Bankside, Southwark 2010 Museum of London 978-1-901992-85-4 19http://www.crossrail.co.uk/assets/library/document/0/original/0004-r-redliontheatre.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20110927072504/http://www.crossrail.co.uk/assets/library/document/0/original/0004-r-redliontheatre.pdf dead 2011-09-27 Red Lion Theatre, Whitechapel Christopher Phillpotts CrossRail Documentary Report Museum of London Archaeology Service 2011-03-21 Jean Carré arrives in England from Antwerp and obtains a royal monopoly for the production of window glass on condition that the techniques would be taught to native Englishmen.James Burke (science historian) James Burke Connections https://archive.org/details/connections00burk_351 limited London Macmillan 1978 0-333-24827-9 163Willmott Hugh 2005 A History of English Glassmaking AD 43-1800 Stroud Tempus Publishing 978-0-7524-3131-4 Chatham Dockyard is established for the Royal Navy. Rugby School is established under the will of grocer Lawrence Sheriff.https://books.google.com/books?id=15cWAAAAIAAJ Rugby Henry Christopher Bradby 1900 1568 16 May – the deposed Mary, Queen of Scots, flees across the Solway Firth from Scotland to EnglandHolmes P. J. Mary Stewart in England The Innes Review 1987 38 38 195–218 10.3366/inr.1987.38.38.195 https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/inr.1987.38.38.195?journalCode=inr 2023-12-05 subscription but on May 19 is placed in custody in Carlisle Castle on the orders of Queen Elizabeth, her cousin. 28 May – incorporation of two monopolies in metalliferous mining, the Society of Mines Royal and the Company of Mineral and Battery Works. 23 September – Battle of San Juan de Ulúa (Anglo-Spanish War): In the Gulf of Mexico, a Spanish fleet forces English privateers under John Hawkins to end their campaign. 26 September – Spain seizes English ships off the coast of Mexico and confiscates their cargo. October – The Bishops' Bible (The Holie Bible) is published, a translation into English under the authority of the Church of England. December – English seize bullion from Spanish ships at Plymouth. 1569 11 January–6 May – the first known lottery in England is drawn outside St Paul's Cathedral in the City of London.http://www.thebookofdays.com/months/jan/11.htm January 11th Chambers' Book of Days 2007-12-13 https://web.archive.org/web/20071218104118/http://www.thebookofdays.com/months/jan/11.htm 18 December 2007 Each share costs ten shillings, the first prize is £5000, and proceeds are used to repair harbours and for other public works. 20 January – Mary, Queen of Scots, is detained at Tutbury Castle.Palmer Alan Palmer Veronica 1992 The Chronology of British History Century Ltd London 153–156 0-7126-5616-2 After September – publication in London of Thomas Preston's tragedy Cambises. November–December – Rising of the North: Charles Neville, 6th Earl of Westmorland and Thomas Percy, 7th Earl of Northumberland lead a rebellion against Queen Elizabeth I in an attempt to place the Catholic Mary, Queen of Scots, on the English throne. Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex drives the Earls out of England. First publication of Henry de Bracton's De legibus & consuetudinibus Angliæ ("On the Laws and Customs of England", left unfinished at Bracton's death c.1268). Undated During the decade Thomas Tallis composes his setting of the Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet for Maundy Thursday. Births 1560 3 January – John Bois, Bible translator (died 1643) 19 September (baptised) – Thomas Cavendish, explorer (died at sea 1592)Marley David F. Wars of the Americas: A Chronology of Armed Conflict in the Western Hemisphere, 2nd Edition [2 volumes]: A Chronology of Armed Conflict in the Western Hemisphere 11 February 2008 ABC-CLIO 978-1-59884-101-5 118 https://books.google.com/books?id=DkgGVTOr2EsC&pg=PA118 en 1561 22 January – Francis Bacon, philosopher, scientist, statesman and essayist (died 1626) June – Samuel Harsnett, Archbishop of York (died 1631) 20 June (baptised) – Richard Whitbourne, colonist of Newfoundland (died 1635) 23 June – Stephen Bachiler, non-conformist minister and pioneer settler of New England (died 1656) 4 August – John Harington, courtier, writer and inventor (died 1612) 24 August – Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk (died 1626) 11 October (baptised) – Thomas Lake, Secretary of State to King James I (died 1630) 27 October – Mary Sidney, writer, patroness and translator (died 1621) 9 December – Edwin Sandys, founder of the colony of Virginia (died 1629) December – Christopher Newport, sea captain (died 1617 in Java) 1562 January – Edward Blount, printer (died 1632) 19 October – George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1633) John Bull, composer (died 1628) Henry Constable, poet (died 1613) Samuel Daniel, poet and historian (died 1619) Francis Godwin, writer and prelate (died 1633) Richard Neile, churchman (died 1640) Henry Spelman, antiquary (died 1641) 1563 January – Penelope Blount, Countess of Devonshire, née Devereux (died 1607) 5 March – John Coke, politician (died 1644) 1 June – Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, statesman and spymaster (died 1612) 19 November – Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester, statesman (died 1626) 19 December – Lord William Howard (died 1640) Charles Blount, 8th Baron Mountjoy (died 1606) John Dowland, composer (died 1626) Michael Drayton, poet (died 1631) Robert Naunton, politician and writer (died 1635) Josuah Sylvester, poet (died 1618) 1564 26 February (baptised) – Christopher Marlowe, poet and dramatist (died 1593) 20 March – Thomas Morton, bishop (died 1659) 26 April (baptised) – William Shakespeare, poet and dramatist (died 1616) 27 April – Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland (died 1632) 24 September – William Adams, navigator and samurai (died 1620) 4 October – John Gerard, Jesuit (died 1637 in Rome) 22 November – Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham, peer and traitor (died 1619) Henry Chettle, dramatist (died 1607) Thomas Shirley, adventurer and privateer (died 1620) 1565 10 February – Edmund Whitelocke, soldier and courtier (died 1608) July – Ferdinando Gorges, colonial entrepreneur (died 1647) 10 November – Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, politician (died 1601) George Kirbye, composer (died 1634) Francis Meres, churchman and author (died 1647) Francis Tanfield, Governor of the South Falkland colony (year of death unknown) 1566 1 September – Edward Alleyn, actor (died 1626) 20 December – Edward Wightman, Anabaptist (burned at the stake 1612) 1567 12 February – Thomas Campion, poet and composer (died 1620) 27 February – William Alabaster, poet (died 1640) 17 September – Edward Sutton, 5th Baron Dudley, landowner (died 1643) November – Thomas Nashe, poet (died 1600) 1568 30 March – Henry Wotton, author and diplomat (died 1639) Richard Baker, chronicler (died 1645) Edward Chichester, 1st Viscount Chichester (died 1648) Gervase Markham, poet and writer (died 1637) Robert Wintour, conspirator (hanged 1606) Approximate date – James Montague, bishop and academic (died 1618) 1569 16 April – John Davies, poet and lawyer (died 1626) September – Arthur Lake, Bishop of Bath and Wells, a translator of the King James Bible (died 1626) William Monson, admiral (died 1643) John Suckling, politician (died 1627) Deaths 1560 8 September – Amy Robsart, noblewoman (born 1532) December – John Sheppard, composer and organist (born 1515) 1561 1 September – Edward Waldegrave, politician and recusant (born c. 1516) 1562 Nicholas Grimald, poet and theologian (born 1519) 1563 30 April – Henry Stafford, 1st Baron Stafford, nobleman (born 1501) 9 June – William Paget, 1st Baron Paget, statesman (born 1506) 17 September – Henry Manners, 2nd Earl of Rutland, soldier (born 1526) 25 September – John Shute, architect 1565 18 July – Kat Ashley, née Katherine Champernowne, governess of Elizabeth I (born c. 1502) 14 October – Thomas Chaloner, statesman and poet (born 1521) 1566 13 July – Sir Thomas Hoby, diplomat and translator (born 1530) 31 October – Richard Edwardes, poet (born 1523) 1567 26 January – Nicholas Wotton, diplomat (born c. 1497) 12 June – Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich, Lord Chancellor (born 1490) 16 September (buried) – Lawrence Sheriff, gentleman and grocer to Elizabeth I (born 1510) Thomas Beccon, Protestant reformer (born 1511) 1568 15 January – Catherine Carey, Chief Lady of the Bedchamber to Elizabeth I (born c. 1526) 20 January – Myles Coverdale, Bible translator (born c. 1488) 26 January – Lady Catherine Grey, Countess of Hertford (born 1539) 19 March – Elizabeth Seymour, Lady Cromwell, noblewoman (born c. 1518) 7 July – William Turner, ornithologist and botanist (born 1508) 23 August – Thomas Wharton, 1st Baron Wharton (born 1495) 23 December – Roger Ascham, scholar, tutor of Elizabeth I (born 1515) Henry Dudley, soldier, sailor, diplomat and conspirator (born 1517) 1569 5 September – Edmund Bonner, Bishop of London (born c. 1500) References 30em