1570s in England

Events from the 1570s in England.

Incumbents

Monarch - Elizabeth I of England

Events

* 1570
** 25 February - Pope Pius V excommunicates Queen Elizabeth I of England with the bull "Regnans in Excelsis".cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-141-02715-0|year=2006]
** Florentine banker Roberto di Ridolfi devises the Ridolfi plot to assassinate Elizabeth and replace her with the Catholic Mary I of Scotland.
* 1571
** 23 January - The Royal Exchange officially opened by Queen Elizabeth. [cite web|url=http://www.thebookofdays.com/months/jan/23.htm|title=Chambers' Book of Days, January 23rd|accessdate=2007-12-23]
** April - Treason Act forbids criticism of the monarchy.
** May - All papal bulls declared treasonable by Act of Parliament.
** 28 September - Ridolfi plot discovered.
** Harrow School founded.
* 1572
** 2 June - Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk is executed for treason for his part in the Ridolfi plot to restore Catholicism in England.cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|pages=226–229]
** 11 July - Humphrey Gilbert leads 1500 English volunteers on an expedition to assist the Dutch Sea Beggars in their struggle against Spanish Habsburg rule.
** College of Antiquaries founded in London.
* 1573
** 17 April - English troops capture Edinburgh Castle.
** 18 December - Francis Walsingham becomes Secretary of State.
* 1574
** 18 August - Treaty of Bristol settles commercial disputes with Spain.
** Construction of Longleat House completed.
* 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.
** 14 November - Elizabeth declines an offer of rule over the Netherlands.
** Christopher Saxton publishes his "County Atlas of England and Wales".
* 1576
** 28 July - Explorer Martin Frobisher discovers Frobisher Bay whilst searching for the Northwest Passage.
** December - James Burbage opens London's first playhouse, The Theatre, in Shoreditch.
** Edmund Grindal enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury.
* 1577
** June - Edmund Grindal suspended for refusing to suppress Puritanism.
** 29 November - Seminary priest Cuthbert Mayne executed for treason.
** 13 December - Francis Drake leaves on a voyage around the world.
* 1578
** 19 November - Walter Ralegh leads an expedition to establish a colony in North America; forced to turn back six months later.cite book |last=Palmer |first=Alan & Veronica |year=1992 |title= The Chronology of British History|publisher= Century Ltd|location=London|pages= 156-159|isbn= 0-7126-5616-2]
* 1579
** 17 June - Drake claims New Albion on the Pacific Coast of North America for England.
** The English College for the training of Roman Catholic Priests is established in Rome.
** Publication of Edmund Spenser's poetry "The Shepheardes Calender".

Births

* 1570
** 22 January - Robert Bruce Cotton, politician (died 1631)
** 13 April - Guy Fawkes, conspirator (died 1606)
** 28 November - James Whitelocke, judge (died 1632)
** John Cooper, composer and lutenist (died 1626)
** John Farmer, composer (died 1601)
** Simon Grahame, adventurer (died 1614)
** John Smyth, Baptist minister (died 1612)
* 1571
** Henry Ainsworth, Nonconformist clergyman and scholar (died 1622)
** William Bedell, Anglican churchman (died 1642)
** Thomas Storer, poet (died 1604)
** Thomas Wintour, Gunpowder Plot conspirator (died 1606)
* 1572
** 11 June - Ben Jonson, dramatist (died 1637)
** John Donne, writer and prelate (died 1631)
** John Floyd, Jesuit (died 1649)
** Bartholomew Gosnold, lawyer and explorer (died 1607)
** James Mabbe, scholar and poet (died 1642)
* 1573
** 15 July - Inigo Jones, architect (died 1652)
** 7 October - William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1645)
** Robert Catesby, leader of the Gunpowder Plot (died 1605)
** Richard Johnson, romance writer (died 1659)
** John Kendrick, merchant (died 1624)
* 1574
** 7 March - John Wilbye, composer (date of baptism) (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)
** September - Thomas Gataker, clergyman and theologian (died 1654)
* 1575
** 5 March - William Oughtred, mathematician (died 1660)
** 14 August - Robert Hayman, poet (died 1629)
** 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)
** Edmund Bolton, historian and poet (died 1633)
** Samuel Purchas, travel writer (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)
** 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)
** William Noy, jurist (died 1634)
** Barnaby Potter, Bishop of Carlisle (died 1642)
* 1578
** 2 March - George Sandys, traveller (died 1644)
** 1 April - William Harvey, physician (died 1657)
** 16 May - Everard Digby, conspirator (died 1606)
** Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry, lawyer (died 1640)
** Ambrose Rokewood, Gunpowder Plot conspirator (died 1606)
** Francis Manners, 6th Earl of Rutland (died 1632)
* 1579
** 13 July - Arthur Dee, physician and alchemist (died 1651)
** December - John Fletcher, writer (died 1625)
** Jacob Astley, 1st Baron Astley of Reading, royalist commander in the English Civil War (died 1652)
** Richard Whitbourne, colonist (died 1628)

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
** January - Robert Parsons, composer (born c. 1535)
** 10 March - William Paulet, 1st Marquess of Winchester (born c. 1483)
** 2 June - Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk (born 1536)
** 24 October - Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby, politician (born 1508)
** Richard Grafton, merchant (year of birth unknown)
** Christopher Tye, composer and organist (born 1505)
* 1573
** 29 July - John Caius, physician (born 1510)
** William Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Effingham, Lord High Admiral (born 1510)
** Reginald Wolfe, printer (year of birth unknown)
* 1575
** 17 May - Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury (born 1504)
** 14 July - Richard Taverner, Bible translator (born 1505)
* 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)
** 4 August - Thomas Stucley, adventurer (born 1525)
** Nicholas Heath, Archbishop of York and Lord Chancellor (born 1501)
** Jane Lumley, translator (born 1537)
* 1579
** 20 February - Nicholas Bacon, politician (born 1509)
** 21 November - Thomas Gresham, merchant and financier (born 1519)
** William Whittingham, Biblical scholar and religious reformer (born 1524)

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