1600s in England

Events from the 1600s in England.

Incumbents

Monarch - Elizabeth I of England (to 24 March 1603), James I of England

Events

* 1600
** January - In Ireland, Hugh O'Neill, 2nd Earl of Tyrone renews the Nine Years' War against England with an invasion of Munster.cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|pages=238–243]
** 31 December - Honourable East India Company granted a Royal Charter.
** Publication of Ben Jonson's play "Every Man Out of His Humour".
** First production of William Shakespeare's plays "The Merchant of Venice" and "A Midsummer Night's Dream".
* 1601
** 7 January–8 January - Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex stages a short-lived rebellion against Elizabeth I.
** 25 February - Essex executed for treason.
** 2 October–3 January 1602 - The Siege of Kinsale ends the rebellion in Ireland.
** November - Elizabeth I address her final parliament with the Golden Speech.
** First production of Shakespeare's play "Hamlet".
* 1602
** 8 November - The Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford is opened.
** Publication of the Shakespeare play "The Merry Wives of Windsor".
** Richard Carew publishes "The Survey of Cornwall".
* 1603
** 24 March - Queen Elizabeth I dies and is succeeded by her cousin King James VI of Scotland, thus uniting the crowns of Scotland and England.cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-141-02715-0|year=2006]
** 30 March - In Ireland, the Earl of Tyrone surrenders to the English.
** April - Thomas Cartwright delivers his Millenary Petition, demanding an end to ritualistic practices, and signed by 1,000 Puritan ministers, to the King.
** 28 April - Funeral of Elizabeth I in Westminster Abbey.
** 17 July - Walter Raleigh arrested for treason.
** 21 July - Thomas Howard created the 1st Earl of Suffolk.
** 25 July - Coronation of James I.
** 17 November - Sir Walter Raleigh goes on trial for treason in the converted Great Hall of Winchester Castle.
** First production of Shakespeare's "Othello".
* 1604
** 14 January to 16 January - Hampton Court Conference with James I, the Anglican bishops and representatives of Puritans. Work begins on the Authorized King James Version of the Bible.
** 19 March - Parliament assembles and debates Robert Cecil's proposal for union with Scotland.cite web|url=http://history.wisc.edu/sommerville/123/123%20282%20James%20government.htm|title=The government of James I|accessdate=2008-03-17]
** 20 June - The Form of Apology and Satisfaction is read out in the House of Commons to justify the conduct of Parliament following a dispute between King and Parliament over a contested election in Buckinghamshire.
** 18 August - The Treaty of London brings an end to the Anglo–Spanish War, an intermittent conflict which had been going on since 1585. [cite web|url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/iss/library/speccoll/exhibitions/ex1604/treaty.html|title=Case 1: THE TREATY OF LONDON|accessdate=2008-03-17]
** 7 July - Parliament prorogued.
** 20 October - King James assumes the style "king of Great Britain". [cite web|url=http://www.heraldica.org/topics/britain/britstyles.htm#1604|title=A proclamation concerning the Kings Majesties Stile, of King of Great Britaine, &c.|accessdate=2008-03-17]
** November - Richard Bancroft enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury.
** 1 November – At Whitehall Palace in London, the Shakespeare tragedy "Othello" is presented for the first time.
** Christopher Marlowe's play "The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus" published.
** "Table Alphabeticall", the first known English Dictionary to be organised by alphabetical ordering, is published.
* 1605
** 5 November - Gunpowder Plot: A plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament is foiled when Sir Thomas Knyvet, a justice of the peace, finds Guy Fawkes in a cellar below the Parliament building and orders a search of the area. Records show 36 barrels of gunpowder were found and Fawkes was arrested for trying to kill King James I and the members who were scheduled to sit together in Parliament the next day.
** 8 November - Gunpowder Plot conspirator Robert Catesby shot while resisting arrest.
* 1606
** 31 January - Guy Fawkes and his co-plotters are executed by hanging, drawing and quartering.
** 10 April - the London Company is granted a Royal Charter to encourage colonisation in Virginia.
** 12 April - first version of the Union Flag created.
** May - Catholics convicted of recusancy barred from public office by a new Act of Parliament.
** 27 May - the second session of Parliament under King James prorogued.
** 18 November - the third session of Parliament begins.
** 26 December - The first recorded performance of William Shakespeare's "King Lear", based on the legend of King Lear of Britain, was held.
** First production of Shakespeare's "Macbeth".
* 1607
** May - Midland Revolt against land enclosures.
** 13 May - English settlers establish Jamestown, Virginia.
** 4 July - the third session of Parliament ends, having refused a proposed union with the Parliament of Scotland. It does not assemble again until 1610.
** Ben Jonson's play "Volpone" published.
* 1608
** First performance of George Chapman's play "The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles, Duke of Byron". The play is banned after the French Ambassador complained to the King.
** Thomas Middleton's play "A Mad World, My Masters" published.
* 1609
** 12 September - Explorer Henry Hudson's ship "Halve Maen" sails into New York Harbour.
** Hudson explores the Hudson River and Delaware Bay.
** Publication of Shakespeare's "Pericles, Prince of Tyre".
** Settlement of Ulster begins: Protestant English and Scots settlers take over forfeited estates of rebel leaders.cite book |last=Palmer |first=Alan & Veronica |year=1992 |title= The Chronology of British History|publisher= Century Ltd|location=London|pages= 166-168|isbn= 0-7126-5616-2]

Births

* 1600
** February - Edmund Calamy the Elder, presbyterian (died 1666)
** November John Ogilby, writer and cartographer (died 1676)
** 19 November - King Charles I of England (died 1649)
** Sir Richard Grenville, 1st Baronet, Royalist leader (died 1658)
** Peter Heylin, ecclesiastical writer (died 1662)
** William Prynne, puritan politician (died 1669)
** Brian Walton, divine and scholar (died 1661)
* 1601
** May - Spencer Compton, 2nd Earl of Northampton (died 1643)
** Adrian Scrope, regicide (died 1660)
** Edward Somerset, 2nd Marquess of Worcester (died 1667)
* 1602
** 29 March - John Lightfoot, churchman and rabbinical scholar (died 1675)
** April - William Lawes, composer and musician (died 1645)
** 1 May - William Lilly, astrologer (died 1681)
** 12 October - William Chillingworth, churchman (died 1644)
** 13 October - Algernon Percy, 10th Earl of Northumberland, military leader (died 1668)
** 18 December - Simonds d'Ewes, antiquarian and politician (died 1650)
** John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton (died 1678)
** John Bradshaw, English judge and regicide (died 1659)
** John Greaves, mathematician and antiquary (died 1652)
** Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester (died 1671)
** Henry Marten, regicide (died 1680)
** Dudley North, 4th Baron North (died 1677)
** Owen Feltham, religious writer (died 1668)
* 1603
** January - Shackerley Marmion, dramatist (died 1639)
** 27 January - Harbottle Grimston, politician (died 1685)
** 18 March - Simon Bradstreet, colonial magistrate (died 1697)
** 11 July - Kenelm Digby, privateer and alchemist (died 1665)
** 21 December - Roger Williams, theologian and colonist (died 1684)
** John Ashburnham, Member of Parliament (died 1671)
** Daniel Blagrave, Member of Parliament (died 1668)
* 1604
** 3 August - John Eliot, puritan missionary (died 1690)
** 13 September - William Brereton, soldier and politician (died 1661)
** November - Jasper Mayne, dramatist (died 1672)
** Isaac Ambrose, Puritan divine (died 1664)
** Edward Pococke, Orientalist and biblical scholar (died 1691)
* 1605
** June - Thomas Randolph, poet and dramatist (died 1635)
** August - Bulstrode Whitelocke, lawyer and parliamentarian (died 1675)
** 8 August - Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, colonial Governor of Maryland (died 1675)
** 18 August - Henry Hammond, churchman (died 1660)
** 12 September - William Dugdale, antiquary (died 1686)
** 19 October - Thomas Browne physician and philosopher (died 1682)
** 4 November - William Habington, poet (died 1654)
** William Berkeley, governor of Virginia (died 1677)
** John Gauden, bishop and writer (died 1662)
** Thomas Nabbes, dramatist (died c. 1645)
** Francis Willoughby, 5th Baron Willoughby of Parham (died 1666)
** William Goffe, parliamentarian (died 1679)
* 1606
** 28 February - William Davenant, poet and playwright (died 1668)
** March - Henry Pierrepont, 1st Marquess of Dorchester (died 1680)
** 3 March - Edmund Waller, poet (died 1687)
** 27 September - Richard Busby, clergyman (died 1695)
** Leonard Calvert, governor of Baltimore (died 1647)
** Edmund Castell, orientalist (died 1685)
** Thomas Harrison, puritan soldier and Fifth Monarchist (died 1660)
** Thomas Herbert, traveller and historian (died 1682)
** John Robartes, 1st Earl of Radnor (died 1685)
** Thomas Washbourne, clergyman and poet (died 1687)
* 1607
** 26 November - John Harvard, clergyman and colonist (died 1638)
** Thomas Barlow, Bishop of Lincoln (died 1691)
** John Boys, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (died 1664)
** John Dixwell,judge and regicide (died 1689)
** Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton (died 1667)
* 1608
** June - Richard Fanshawe, diplomat (died 1666)
** 14 July - George Goring, Lord Goring, Royalist soldier (died 1657)
** 6 December - George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, soldier (died 1670)
** 9 December - John Milton, poet (died 1674)
** John Desborough, soldier and politician (died 1680)
** Thomas Fuller, churchman and historian (died 1661)
** Edward Rainbowe, clergyman and a preacher (died 1684)
** John Tradescant the younger, botanist and gardener (died 1662)
* 1609
** 10 February - John Suckling, poet (died 1642)
** 18 February - Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, historian and statesman (died 1674)
** 29 March - Sarah Boyle, noblewoman (died 1633)
** 8 October - John Clarke, physician (died 1676)
** 26 October - William Sprague, co-founder of Charlestown, Massachusetts (died 1675)
** 1 November - Matthew Hale, Lord Chief Justice (died 1676)
** 24 December - Philip Warwick, writer and politician (died 1683)
** Samuel Cooper, miniature painter (died 1672)
** Captain John Underhill, soldier and colonist (died 1672)
** Gerrard Winstanley, Protestant religious reformer (died 1676)

Deaths

* 1600
** April - Thomas Deloney, writer (born 1543)
** 3 November - Richard Hooker, Anglican theologian (born 1554)
* 1601
** 19 January - Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, statesman (born 1534)
** 25 February - Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, politician (born 1566)
** 27 February - Anne Line, saint (year of birth unknown)
** Thomas North, translator of Plutarch (born 1535)
** John Shakespeare, glover and farmer, father of William Shakespeare (born 1529)
* 1602
** 13 February - Alexander Nowell, clergyman (born 1507)
** October - Thomas Morley, composer (born 1557)
** 29 November - Anthony Holborne, composer (born c. 1545)
* 1603
** 15 January - Catherine Carey, Lady in waiting to Elizabeth I of England (year of birth unknown)
** 24 March - Queen Elizabeth I (born 1533)
** 8 September - George Carey, 2nd Baron Hunsdon, politician (born 1547)
** 9 December - William Watson, conspirator (born 1559)
** 10 December - William Gilbert, scientist (plague) (born 1544)
** 27 December - Thomas Cartwright, Puritan clergyman (born c. 1535)
** Edward Fenton, navigator (year of birth unknown)
** Ralph Lane, explorer (born 1530)
* 1604
** 29 February - John Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury (born 1530)
** 24 June - Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, politician (born 1550)
** 3 December - George Hastings, 4th Earl of Huntingdon (born 1540)
** Thomas Churchyard, author (born 1520)
** Thomas Storer, poet (born 1571)
** Richard Topcliffe, Member of Parliament and torturer (born 1532)
* 1605
** 5 April - Adam Loftus, Catholic archbishop (born c. 1533)
** 6 April - John Stow, historian and antiquarian (born 1525)
** 11 September - Sir Thomas Tresham, politician (born 1550)
** 8 November - Robert Catesby, conspirator (born 1573)
** December - Francis Tresham, conspirator (born 1567)
** 29 December - John Davis, explorer (born 1550)
* 1606
** 30 January
*** Everard Digby, conspirator (executed) (born 1578)
*** Robert Wintour, conspirator (executed) (born 1565)
** 31 January
*** Guy Fawkes, conspirator (executed) (born 1570)
*** Ambrose Rokewood, conspirator (executed) (born c. 1578)
*** Thomas Wintour, conspirator (executed) (born 1571)
** 3 April - Charles Blount, 1st Earl of Devon, politician (born 1563)
** 3 May - Henry Garnet, Jesuit (executed) (born 1555)
** 20 November - (burial date) John Lyly, writer (born 1553)
* 1607
** May - Edward Dyer, courtier and poet (born 1543)
** 21 May - John Rainolds, scholar and Bible translator (born 1549)
** 10 June - John Popham, Lord Chief Justice (born 1553)
** 7 July - Penelope Blount, Countess of Devonshire (born 1562
** 22 August - Bartholomew Gosnold, explorer and privateer (born 1572)
** 20 December - Sir John Bourke (born 1550)
** Henry Chettle, writer (born 1564)
* 1608
** 13 February - Bess of Hardwick, Countess of Shrewsbury (born 1527)
** 26 February - John Still, bishop (born c. 1543)
** 19 April - Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, statesman and poet (born 1536)
** 19 October - Geoffrey Fenton, writer and politician (born c. 1539)
** December
*** John Dee, mathematician, astronomer, and geographer (born 1527)
*** William Davison, secretary to Queen Elizabeth I of England (born c. 1541)
** Laurence Tomson, Calvinist theologian (born 1539)
** Edmund Whitelocke, soldier and courtier (born 1565)
* 1609
** 9 March - William Warner, poet (born c. 1558)
** Barnabe Barnes, poet (born 1568)

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