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1580s 1580s in England Events from the 1580s in England.-Events:* 1580** 6 April - Dover Straits earthquake.** June - England signs a commercial treaty with the Ottoman Empire.** 6 July - New building banned within three miles of the City of London....  | 1590s 1590s in England Events from the 1590s in England.-Events:* 1590** Publication of Edmund Spenser's poetry The Faerie Queene and his satire Mother Hubbard's Tale.** First production of William Shakespeare's play Henry VI, part 1.* 1591...  | 1600s | 1610s 1610s in England Events from the 1610s in England.-Events:* 1610** 9 February - Parliament assembles and debates the Great Contract proposed by Robert Cecil whereby in return for an annual grant of £200,000, the Crown should give up its feudal rights of Wardship and Purveyance, as well as New Impositions.** 23 May...  | 1620s 1620s in England Events from the 1620s in England.-Incumbents:Monarch - King James I , King Charles I-Events:* 1620**27 April - Treaty with Spain arranges marriage between the Prince of Wales and Infanta Maria Anna of Spain in return for relaxation of laws concerning Roman Catholics.**3 July - The Honourable East...

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Events

• 1600
  • January - In Ireland, Hugh O'Neill, 2nd Earl of Tyrone renews the Nine Years' War
    Nine Years' War (Ireland)
    The Nine Years' War or Tyrone's Rebellion took place in Ireland from 1594 to 1603. It was fought between the forces of Gaelic Irish chieftains Hugh O'Neill of Tír Eoghain, Hugh Roe O'Donnell of Tír Chonaill and their allies, against English rule in Ireland. The war was fought in all parts of the...
    
     against England with an invasion of Munster
    Munster
    Munster is one of the Provinces of Ireland situated in the south of Ireland. In Ancient Ireland, it was one of the fifths ruled by a "king of over-kings" . Following the Norman invasion of Ireland, the ancient kingdoms were shired into a number of counties for administrative and judicial purposes...
    
    .
  • 31 December - East India Company
    East India Company
    The East India Company was an early English joint-stock company that was formed initially for pursuing trade with the East Indies, but that ended up trading mainly with the Indian subcontinent and China...
    
     granted a Royal Charter
    Royal Charter
    A royal charter is a formal document issued by a monarch as letters patent, granting a right or power to an individual or a body corporate. They were, and are still, used to establish significant organizations such as cities or universities. Charters should be distinguished from warrants and...
    
    .
  • Publication of Ben Jonson
    Ben Jonson
    Benjamin Jonson was an English Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor. A contemporary of William Shakespeare, he is best known for his satirical plays, particularly Volpone, The Alchemist, and Bartholomew Fair, which are considered his best, and his lyric poems...
    
    's play Every Man Out of His Humour
    Every Man Out of His Humour
    Every Man out of His Humour is a satirical comedy written by English playwright Ben Jonson, acted in 1599 by the Lord Chamberlain's Men. It is a conceptual sequel to his 1598 comedy Every Man in His Humour...
    
    .
  • First publication of William Shakespeare
    William Shakespeare
    William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"...
    
    's plays The Merchant of Venice
    The Merchant of Venice
    The Merchant of Venice is a tragic comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1596 and 1598. Though classified as a comedy in the First Folio and sharing certain aspects with Shakespeare's other romantic comedies, the play is perhaps most remembered for its dramatic...
    
    and A Midsummer Night's Dream
    A Midsummer Night's Dream
    A Midsummer Night's Dream is a play that was written by William Shakespeare. It is believed to have been written between 1590 and 1596. It portrays the events surrounding the marriage of the Duke of Athens, Theseus, and the Queen of the Amazons, Hippolyta...
    
    .
  • William Gilbert publishes De Magnete
    De Magnete
    De Magnete, Magneticisque Corporibus, et de Magno Magnete Tellure is a scientific work published in 1600 by the English physician and scientist William Gilbert and his partner Aaron Dowling...
    
    , discussing Earth's magnetic field
    Earth's magnetic field
    Earth's magnetic field is the magnetic field that extends from the Earth's inner core to where it meets the solar wind, a stream of energetic particles emanating from the Sun...
    
    , one of the first important scientific works to be published in England.
• 1601
  • 7 January–8 January - Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex
    Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex
    Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, KG was an English nobleman and a favourite of Elizabeth I. Politically ambitious, and a committed general, he was placed under house arrest following a poor campaign in Ireland during the Nine Years' War in 1599...
    
     stages a short-lived rebellion against Elizabeth I
    Elizabeth I of England
    Elizabeth I was queen regnant of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death. Sometimes called The Virgin Queen, Gloriana, or Good Queen Bess, Elizabeth was the fifth and last monarch of the Tudor dynasty...
    
    .
  • 25 February - Essex executed for treason.
  • Spring - Possible first performance of Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet
    Hamlet
    The Tragical History of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, or more simply Hamlet, is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601...
    
    .
  • 2 October–3 January 1602 - The Siege of Kinsale
    Siege of Kinsale
    The Siege or Battle of Kinsale was the ultimate battle in England's conquest of Gaelic Ireland. It took place during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, at the climax of the Nine Years War - a campaign by Aodh Mór Ó Néill, Aodh Rua Ó Dónaill and other Irish clan leaders against English rule...
    
     ends the rebellion in Ireland.
  • November - Elizabeth I addresses her final parliament with the Golden Speech.
  • An Act for the Relief of the Poor
    Elizabethan Poor Law (1601)
    The Act for the Relief of the Poor 1601, popularly known as the "Elizabethan Poor Law", "43rd Elizabeth" or the "Old Poor Law" was an Act of Parliament passed in 1601 which created a national poor law system for England and Wales....
    
     codifies the English Poor Laws
    English Poor Laws
    The English Poor Laws were a system of poor relief which existed in England and Wales that developed out of late-medieval and Tudor-era laws before being codified in 1587–98...
    
    .
• 1602
  • 2 February (Candlemas night) - First recorded performance of Shakespeare's comedy Twelfth Night, in Middle Temple Hall, London
    London
    London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
    
    .
  • 8 November - The Bodleian Library
    Bodleian Library
    The Bodleian Library , the main research library of the University of Oxford, is one of the oldest libraries in Europe, and in Britain is second in size only to the British Library...
    
     at the University of Oxford
    University of Oxford
    The University of Oxford is a university located in Oxford, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest surviving university in the world and the oldest in the English-speaking world. Although its exact date of foundation is unclear, there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096...
    
     is opened.
  • Publication of Shakespeare's comedy The Merry Wives of Windsor
    The Merry Wives of Windsor
    The Merry Wives of Windsor is a comedy by William Shakespeare, first published in 1602, though believed to have been written prior to 1597. It features the fat knight Sir John Falstaff, and is Shakespeare's only play to deal exclusively with contemporary Elizabethan era English middle class life...
    
    .
  • Richard Carew publishes The Survey of Cornwall.

• 1603
  • 24 March - Queen Elizabeth I
    Elizabeth I of England
    Elizabeth I was queen regnant of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death. Sometimes called The Virgin Queen, Gloriana, or Good Queen Bess, Elizabeth was the fifth and last monarch of the Tudor dynasty...
    
     dies and is succeeded by her cousin King James VI of Scotland
    James I of England
    James VI and I was King of Scots as James VI from 24 July 1567 and King of England and Ireland as James I from the union of the English and Scottish crowns on 24 March 1603...
    
    , thus uniting the crowns
    Union of the Crowns
    The Union of the Crowns was the accession of James VI, King of Scots, to the throne of England, and the consequential unification of Scotland and England under one monarch. The Union of Crowns followed the death of James' unmarried and childless first cousin twice removed, Queen Elizabeth I of...
    
     of Scotland
    Kingdom of Scotland
    The Kingdom of Scotland was a Sovereign state in North-West Europe that existed from 843 until 1707. It occupied the northern third of the island of Great Britain and shared a land border to the south with the Kingdom of England...
    
     and England.
  • 30 March - In Ireland, the Earl of Tyrone surrenders to the English.
  • April - Thomas Cartwright delivers his Millenary Petition
    Millenary Petition
    The Millenary Petition was a list of requests given to James I by Puritans in 1603 when he was travelling to London in order to claim the English throne. It is claimed, but not proven, that this petition had 1,000 signatures of Puritan ministers...
    
    , demanding an end to ritualistic practices, and signed by 1,000 Puritan
    Puritan
    The Puritans were a significant grouping of English Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries. Puritanism in this sense was founded by some Marian exiles from the clergy shortly after the accession of Elizabeth I of England in 1558, as an activist movement within the Church of England...
    
     ministers, to the King.
  • 28 April - Funeral of Elizabeth I in Westminster Abbey
    Westminster Abbey
    The Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster, popularly known as Westminster Abbey, is a large, mainly Gothic church, in the City of Westminster, London, United Kingdom, located just to the west of the Palace of Westminster. It is the traditional place of coronation and burial site for English,...
    
    .
  • 17 July - Sir Walter Ralegh arrested for treason
    Treason
    In law, treason is the crime that covers some of the more extreme acts against one's sovereign or nation. Historically, treason also covered the murder of specific social superiors, such as the murder of a husband by his wife. Treason against the king was known as high treason and treason against a...
    
    .
  • 21 July - Thomas Howard
    Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk
    Admiral Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk, KG, PC was a son of Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk by his second wife Margaret Audley, Duchess of Norfolk, the daughter and heiress of the 1st Baron Audley of Walden....
    
     created the 1st Earl of Suffolk
    Earl of Suffolk
    Earl of Suffolk is a title that has been created four times in the Peerage of England. The first creation, in tandem with the creation of the title of Earl of Norfolk, came before 1069 in favour of Ralph the Staller; but the title was forfeited by his heir, Ralph de Guader, in 1074...
    
    .
  • 25 July - Coronation of James I
    James I of England
    James VI and I was King of Scots as James VI from 24 July 1567 and King of England and Ireland as James I from the union of the English and Scottish crowns on 24 March 1603...
    
    .
  • 17 November - Ralegh goes on trial for treason in the converted Great Hall of Winchester Castle
    Winchester Castle
    Winchester Castle is a medieval building in Hampshire, England. It was founded in 1067. Only the Great Hall exists now; it houses a museum of the history of Winchester.-Great Hall:...
    
    .
• 1604
  • 14 January to 16 January - Hampton Court Conference
    Hampton Court Conference
    The Hampton Court Conference was a meeting in January 1604, convened at Hampton Court Palace, for discussion between King James I of England and representatives of the Church of England, including leading English Puritans.-Attendance:...
    
     with James I, the Anglican
    Anglicanism
    Anglicanism is a tradition within Christianity comprising churches with historical connections to the Church of England or similar beliefs, worship and church structures. The word Anglican originates in ecclesia anglicana, a medieval Latin phrase dating to at least 1246 that means the English...
    
     bishop
    Bishop
    A bishop is an ordained or consecrated member of the Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight. Within the Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox Churches, in the Assyrian Church of the East, in the Independent Catholic Churches, and in the...
    
    s and representatives of Puritans. Work begins on the Authorized King James Version of the Bible
    Bible
    The Bible refers to any one of the collections of the primary religious texts of Judaism and Christianity. There is no common version of the Bible, as the individual books , their contents and their order vary among denominations...
    
    .
  • 19 March - Parliament assembles and debates Robert Cecil
    Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury
    Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, KG, PC was an English administrator and politician.-Life:He was the son of William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley and Mildred Cooke...
    
    's proposal for union
    Political union
    A political union is a type of state which is composed of or created out of smaller states. Unlike a personal union, the individual states share a common government and the union is recognized internationally as a single political entity...
    
     with Scotland
    Scotland
    Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
    
    .
  • 20 June - The Form of Apology and Satisfaction
    The Form of Apology and Satisfaction
    The Form of Apology and Satisfaction of 1604 was a document drawn up by a House of Commons committee protesting against King James I's handling of recent political issues....
    
     is read out in the House of Commons
    British House of Commons
    The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which also comprises the Sovereign and the House of Lords . Both Commons and Lords meet in the Palace of Westminster. The Commons is a democratically elected body, consisting of 650 members , who are known as Members...
    
     to justify the conduct of Parliament following a dispute between King and Parliament over a contested election in Buckinghamshire
    Buckinghamshire
    Buckinghamshire is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan home county in South East England. The county town is Aylesbury, the largest town in the ceremonial county is Milton Keynes and largest town in the non-metropolitan county is High Wycombe....
    
    .
  • 18 August - The Treaty of London brings an end to the Anglo–Spanish War, an intermittent conflict which has been going on since 1585.
  • 7 July - Parliament prorogued.
  • 20 October - King James assumes the style king of Great Britain.
  • November - Richard Bancroft
    Richard Bancroft
    Archbishop Richard Bancroft, DD, BD, MA, BA was an English churchman, who became Archbishop of Canterbury and the "chief overseer" of the production of the authorized version of the Bible.-Life:...
    
     enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury
    Archbishop of Canterbury
    The Archbishop of Canterbury is the senior bishop and principal leader of the Church of England, the symbolic head of the worldwide Anglican Communion, and the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury. In his role as head of the Anglican Communion, the archbishop leads the third largest group...
    
    .
  • 1 November (Hallowmas day
    All Saints
    All Saints' Day , often shortened to All Saints, is a solemnity celebrated on 1 November by parts of Western Christianity, and on the first Sunday after Pentecost in Eastern Christianity, in honour of all the saints, known and unknown...
    
    ) - First recorded performance of Shakespeare's tragedy Othello
    Othello
    The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in approximately 1603, and based on the Italian short story "Un Capitano Moro" by Cinthio, a disciple of Boccaccio, first published in 1565...
    
    , at Whitehall Palace in London.
  • Christopher Marlowe
    Christopher Marlowe
    Christopher Marlowe was an English dramatist, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era. As the foremost Elizabethan tragedian, next to William Shakespeare, he is known for his blank verse, his overreaching protagonists, and his mysterious death.A warrant was issued for Marlowe's arrest on 18 May...
    
    's play The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
    The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
    The Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, commonly referred to simply as Doctor Faustus, is a play by Christopher Marlowe, based on the Faust story, in which a man sells his soul to the devil for power and knowledge...
    
    published.
  • Table Alphabeticall
    Table Alphabeticall
    A Table Alphabeticall is the abbreviated title of the first monolingual dictionary in the English language, created by Robert Cawdrey and first published in London in 1604....
    
    , the first known English dictionary
    Dictionary
    A dictionary is a collection of words in one or more specific languages, often listed alphabetically, with usage information, definitions, etymologies, phonetics, pronunciations, and other information; or a book of words in one language with their equivalents in another, also known as a lexicon...
    
     to be organised by alphabetical ordering, is published.
  • Peter Blundell
    Peter Blundell
    Peter Blundell was a prosperous clothier, trading between Tiverton and London. He died in April 1601, never having married and with no known issue. On his death, he left over £32,000 cash to fellow clothiers and their families, his employees, created several charitable trusts, and gave £2400 to...
    
     founds Blundell's School
    Blundell's School
    Blundell's School is a co-educational day and boarding independent school located in the town of Tiverton in the county of Devon, England. The school was founded in 1604 by the will of Peter Blundell, one of the richest men in England at the time, and relocated to its present location on the...
    
     in Tiverton, Devon.
• 1605
  • 5 November - Gunpowder Plot
    Gunpowder Plot
    The Gunpowder Plot of 1605, in earlier centuries often called the Gunpowder Treason Plot or the Jesuit Treason, was a failed assassination attempt against King James I of England and VI of Scotland by a group of provincial English Catholics led by Robert Catesby.The plan was to blow up the House of...
    
    : A plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament
    Palace of Westminster
    The Palace of Westminster, also known as the Houses of Parliament or Westminster Palace, is the meeting place of the two houses of the Parliament of the United Kingdom—the House of Lords and the House of Commons...
    
     is foiled when Sir Thomas Knyvet
    Thomas Knyvet, 1st Baron Knyvet
    Thomas James Knyvet, 1st Baron Knyvet was the second son of Sir Henry Knyvet of Charlton, Wiltshire and Anne Pickering, daughter of Sir Christopher Pickering of Killington, Westmoreland. His half-sister Catherine Knyvet was married to Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk...
    
    , a justice of the peace, finds Guy Fawkes
    Guy Fawkes
    Guy Fawkes , also known as Guido Fawkes, the name he adopted while fighting for the Spanish in the Low Countries, belonged to a group of provincial English Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605.Fawkes was born and educated in York...
    
     in a cellar below the Parliament building and orders a search of the area, finding 36 barrels of gunpowder
    Gunpowder
    Gunpowder, also known since in the late 19th century as black powder, was the first chemical explosive and the only one known until the mid 1800s. It is a mixture of sulfur, charcoal, and potassium nitrate - with the sulfur and charcoal acting as fuels, while the saltpeter works as an oxidizer...
    
    . Fawkes is arrested for trying to kill King James I and the members who were scheduled to sit together in Parliament the next day. Guy Fawkes
    Guy Fawkes
    Guy Fawkes , also known as Guido Fawkes, the name he adopted while fighting for the Spanish in the Low Countries, belonged to a group of provincial English Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605.Fawkes was born and educated in York...
    
     spoke the legendary words: "Remember, remember, the Fifth of November".
  • 8 November - Gunpowder Plot conspirator Robert Catesby
    Robert Catesby
    Robert Catesby , was the leader of a group of provincial English Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605....
    
     shot while plotters are being arrested at Holbeche House
    Holbeche House
    Holbeche House is a mansion located near Kingswinford, on the borders of Staffordshire. It is the building in which some of the central Gunpowder plotters were captured, and the rest killed.-Gunpowder Plot:...
    
     in the west midlands
    West Midlands (region)
    The West Midlands is an official region of England, covering the western half of the area traditionally known as the Midlands. It contains the second most populous British city, Birmingham, and the larger West Midlands conurbation, which includes the city of Wolverhampton and large towns of Dudley,...
    
    .
  • Publication of Francis Bacon
    Francis Bacon
    Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Albans, KC was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, jurist, author and pioneer of the scientific method. He served both as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England...
    
    's treatise The Advancement of Learning
    The Advancement of Learning
    right|thumbnail|Title pageThe Advancement of Learning is a 1605 book by Francis Bacon.-Darwin:...
    
    .

• 1606
  • 31 January - Fawkes and his co-plotters are executed by hanging, drawing and quartering
    Hanged, drawn and quartered
    To be hanged, drawn and quartered was from 1351 a penalty in England for men convicted of high treason, although the ritual was first recorded during the reigns of King Henry III and his successor, Edward I...
    
    .
  • 10 April - The London Company
    London Company
    The London Company was an English joint stock company established by royal charter by James I of England on April 10, 1606 with the purpose of establishing colonial settlements in North America.The territory granted to the London Company included the coast of North America from the 34th parallel ...
    
     is granted a Royal Charter to encourage colonisation in Virginia
    Virginia
    The Commonwealth of Virginia , is a U.S. state on the Atlantic Coast of the Southern United States. Virginia is nicknamed the "Old Dominion" and sometimes the "Mother of Presidents" after the eight U.S. presidents born there...
    
    .
  • 12 April - First version of the Union Flag
    Union Flag
    The Union Flag, also known as the Union Jack, is the flag of the United Kingdom. It retains an official or semi-official status in some Commonwealth Realms; for example, it is known as the Royal Union Flag in Canada. It is also used as an official flag in some of the smaller British overseas...
    
     created.
  • May - Severe penalties are imposed for Catholic recusancy
    Recusancy
    In the history of England and Wales, the recusancy was the state of those who refused to attend Anglican services. The individuals were known as "recusants"...
    
    , and for refusal to take an Oath of Allegiance to James
    Oath of Allegiance of James I of England
    The Oath of Allegiance of 1606 was an oath required of subjects of James I of England from 1606, the year after the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 ; it was also called the Oath of Obedience . Whatever effect it had on the loyalty of his subjects, it caused an international controversy lasting a...
    
     to serve in public office, by An Act for the better discovering and repressing of popish recusants (proclaimed law 22 June).
  • 27 May - Second session of Parliament under King James prorogued.
  • August (approx.) - Possible first performance of Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth
    Macbeth
    The Tragedy of Macbeth is a play by William Shakespeare about a regicide and its aftermath. It is Shakespeare's shortest tragedy and is believed to have been written sometime between 1603 and 1607...
    
    .
  • 18 November - Third session of Parliament begins.
  • 26 December (St. Stephen's night
    St. Stephen's Day
    St. Stephen's Day, or the Feast of St. Stephen, is a Christian saint's day celebrated on 26 December in the Western Church and 27 December in the Eastern Church. Many Eastern Orthodox churches adhere to the Julian calendar and mark St. Stephen's Day on 27 December according to that calendar, which...
    
    ) - First recorded performance of Shakespeare's tragedy King Lear
    King Lear
    King Lear is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. The title character descends into madness after foolishly disposing of his estate between two of his three daughters based on their flattery, bringing tragic consequences for all. The play is based on the legend of Leir of Britain, a mythological...
    
    , before the King at Whitehall.
• 1607
  • 30 January - Bristol Channel floods
    Bristol Channel floods, 1607
    The Bristol Channel floods, which occurred on 30 January 1607 , resulted in the drowning of a large number of people and the destruction of a large amount of farmland and livestock...
    
     (a possible tsunami
    Tsunami
    A tsunami is a series of water waves caused by the displacement of a large volume of a body of water, typically an ocean or a large lake...
    
    ) result in the drowning of an estimated 2,000 people, with 200 square miles (518 km²) of farmland inundated.
  • late April - Start of Midland Revolt
    Midland Revolt
    The Midland Revolt was a popular uprising which took place in the Midlands of England in 1607. Beginning in late April in Haselbech, Pytchley and Rushton in Northamptonshire, and spreading to Warwickshire and Leicestershire throughout May, riots took place as a protest against the enclosure of...
    
     against land enclosures.
  • 13 May - English settlers establish Jamestown, Virginia
    Jamestown, Virginia
    Jamestown was a settlement in the Colony of Virginia. Established by the Virginia Company of London as "James Fort" on May 14, 1607 , it was the first permanent English settlement in what is now the United States, following several earlier failed attempts, including the Lost Colony of Roanoke...
    
    .
  • 8 June - Midland Revolt suppressed at Newton, Northamptonshire
    Newton, Northamptonshire
    Newton, sometimes called Newton in the Willows, is a small village in the Ise valley, Kettering, Northamptonshire. The village is in the civil parish of Newton and Little Oakley which had a population at the 2001 census of 147...
    
    , by local gentry.
  • 4 July - Third session of Parliament ends, having refused a proposed union with the Parliament of Scotland. It does not assemble again until 1610.
  • 5 December–14 February 1608 - Severe frost. Many rivers, including the Thames, freeze.
  • First performance of Francis Beaumont
    Francis Beaumont
    Francis Beaumont was a dramatist in the English Renaissance theatre, most famous for his collaborations with John Fletcher....
    
    's parodic play The Knight of the Burning Pestle
    The Knight of the Burning Pestle
    The Knight of the Burning Pestle is a play by Francis Beaumont, first performed in 1607 and first published in a quarto in 1613. It is notable as the first whole parody play in English...
    
    .
• 1608
  • First performance of George Chapman
    George Chapman
    George Chapman was an English dramatist, translator, and poet. He was a classical scholar, and his work shows the influence of Stoicism. Chapman has been identified as the Rival Poet of Shakespeare's Sonnets by William Minto, and as an anticipator of the Metaphysical Poets...
    
    's play The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles, Duke of Byron
    The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles, Duke of Byron
    The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles, Duke of Byron, Marshall of France is a Jacobean tragedy by George Chapman, a two-part play or double play first performed and published in 1608...
    
    . The play is prohibited after the French Ambassador complains to the King.
  • Ben Jonson's satiric play Volpone
    Volpone
    Volpone is a comedy by Ben Jonson first produced in 1606, drawing on elements of city comedy, black comedy and beast fable...
    
    published.
  • Thomas Middleton
    Thomas Middleton
    Thomas Middleton was an English Jacobean playwright and poet. Middleton stands with John Fletcher and Ben Jonson as among the most successful and prolific of playwrights who wrote their best plays during the Jacobean period. He was one of the few Renaissance dramatists to achieve equal success in...
    
    's city comedy
    City comedy
    City comedy, also called Citizen Comedy, is a common genre of Elizabethan, Jacobean, and Caroline comedy on the London stage from the last years of the 16th century to the closing of the theaters in 1642...
    
     A Mad World, My Masters
    A Mad World, My Masters
    A Mad World, My Masters is a Jacobean stage play written by Thomas Middleton, a comedy first performed around 1605 and first published in 1608....
    
    published.
• 1609
  • 28 August - English explorer Henry Hudson
    Henry Hudson
    Henry Hudson was an English sea explorer and navigator in the early 17th century. Hudson made two attempts on behalf of English merchants to find a prospective Northeast Passage to Cathay via a route above the Arctic Circle...
    
     (in the service of the Dutch East India Company
    Dutch East India Company
    The Dutch East India Company was a chartered company established in 1602, when the States-General of the Netherlands granted it a 21-year monopoly to carry out colonial activities in Asia...
    
    ) finds Delaware Bay
    Delaware Bay
    Delaware Bay is a major estuary outlet of the Delaware River on the Northeast seaboard of the United States whose fresh water mixes for many miles with the waters of the Atlantic Ocean. It is in area. The bay is bordered by the State of New Jersey and the State of Delaware...
    
    .
  • 11–12 September - Explorer Henry Hudson
    Henry Hudson
    Henry Hudson was an English sea explorer and navigator in the early 17th century. Hudson made two attempts on behalf of English merchants to find a prospective Northeast Passage to Cathay via a route above the Arctic Circle...
    
    's ship Halve Maen sails into Upper New York Bay
    Upper New York Bay
    Upper New York Bay, or Upper Bay, is the traditional heart of the Port of New York and New Jersey, and often called New York Harbor. It is enclosed by the New York City boroughs of Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Staten Island and the Hudson County, New Jersey municipalities of Jersey City and Bayonne.It...
    
     and begins a journey up the Hudson River
    Hudson River
    The Hudson is a river that flows from north to south through eastern New York. The highest official source is at Lake Tear of the Clouds, on the slopes of Mount Marcy in the Adirondack Mountains. The river itself officially begins in Henderson Lake in Newcomb, New York...
    
    .
  • 12 October - A version of the rhyme "Three Blind Mice
    Three Blind Mice
    Three Blind Mice is an English nursery rhyme and musical round. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 3753.-Lyrics:The modern words are:-Variations and uses:Amateur music composer Thomas Oliphant noted in 1843 that:...
    
    " is published in Deuteromelia or The Seconde part of Musicks melodie (London
    London
    London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
    
    ). The editor, and possible author of the verse, is the teenage Thomas Ravenscroft
    Thomas Ravenscroft
    Thomas Ravenscroft was an English musician, theorist and editor, notable as a composer of rounds and catches, and especially for compiling collections of British folk music.He probably sang in the choir of St...
    
    .
  • Settlement of Ulster
    Ulster
    Ulster is one of the four provinces of Ireland, located in the north of the island. In ancient Ireland, it was one of the fifths ruled by a "king of over-kings" . Following the Norman invasion of Ireland, the ancient kingdoms were shired into a number of counties for administrative and judicial...
    
     begins: Protestant English and Scots settlers take over forfeited estates of rebel leaders.
  • Publication of Pericles, Prince of Tyre
    Pericles, Prince of Tyre
    Pericles, Prince of Tyre is a Jacobean play written at least in part by William Shakespeare and included in modern editions of his collected works despite questions over its authorship, as it was not included in the First Folio...
    
    with attribution to Shakespeare.

Births

• 1600
  • February - Edmund Calamy the Elder
    Edmund Calamy the Elder
    Edmund Calamy was an English Presbyterian church leader and divine. Known as "the elder", he was the first of four generations of nonconformist ministers bearing the same name.-Early life:...
    
    , presbyterian (died 1666
    1666 in England
    Events from the year 1666 in England. This is the first year to be designated as an Annus mirabilis, in John Dryden's 1667 poem so titled, celebrating England's failure to be beaten either by fire or by the Dutch.-Events:...
    
    )
  • November John Ogilby
    John Ogilby
    John Ogilby was a Scottish translator, impresario and cartographer. Best known for publishing the first British road atlas, he was also a successful translator, noted for publishing his work in handsome illustrated editions.-Life:Ogilby was born in or near Killemeare in November 1600...
    
    , writer and cartographer (died 1676
    1676 in England
    Events from the year 1676 in the Kingdom of England.-Events:* 18 February - Isaac Newton observes to Robert Hooke that "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants"....
    
    )
  • 19 November - King Charles I of England
    Charles I of England
    Charles I was King of England, King of Scotland, and King of Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649. Charles engaged in a struggle for power with the Parliament of England, attempting to obtain royal revenue whilst Parliament sought to curb his Royal prerogative which Charles...
    
     (died 1649
    1649 in England
    Events from the year 1649 in England.-Incumbents:Monarch - King Charles I of England ; Interregnum-Events:* 3 January - An explosion of several barrels of gunpowder in Tower Street, London kills 67 people and destroys 60 houses....
    
    )
  • Sir Richard Grenville, 1st Baronet
    Sir Richard Grenville, 1st Baronet
    Sir Richard Grenville, 1st Baronet was a Cornish Royalist leader during the English Civil War.He was the third son of Sir Bernard Grenville , and a grandson of the famous seaman, Sir Richard Grenville...
    
    , Royalist leader (died 1658
    1658 in England
    Events from the year 1658 in the The Protectorate.-Events:* 4 February - Oliver Cromwell dissolves the Second Protectorate Parliament.* April - First stage coach services advertised; 4-day trips from London to Exeter, York, and Chester....
    
    )
  • Peter Heylin
    Peter Heylin
    Peter Heylin or Heylyn was an English ecclesiastic and author of many polemical, historical, political and theological tracts. He incorporated his political concepts into his geographical books Microcosmus in 1621 and Cosmographie .-Life:He was born in Burford, Oxfordshire, the son of Henry Heylyn...
    
    , ecclesiastical writer (died 1662
    1662 in England
    Events from the year 1662 in the Kingdom of England.-Events:* 17 March - Two old women are hanged after being found guilty of witchcraft at the Bury St. Edmunds witch trial.* 2 May/3 May - Catherine of Braganza marries Charles II of England...
    
    )
  • William Prynne
    William Prynne
    William Prynne was an English lawyer, author, polemicist, and political figure. He was a prominent Puritan opponent of the church policy of the Archbishop of Canterbury, William Laud. Although his views on church polity were presbyterian, he became known in the 1640s as an Erastian, arguing for...
    
    , puritan politician (died 1669
    1669 in England
    Events from the year 1669 in England.-Events:* 31 May - Citing poor eyesight, Samuel Pepys records the last entry in his diary, one of the most important primary sources for the English Restoration period....
    
    )
  • Brian Walton, divine and scholar (died 1661
    1661 in England
    Events from the year 1661 which occurred in the Kingdom of England.-Events:* 6 January - The Fifth Monarchists unsuccessfully attempt to seize control of London...
    
    )
  • probable date - Dud Dudley, ironmaster (died 1684
    1684 in England
    Events from the year 1684 in the Kingdom of England.-Events:*15 March - Highwayman John Nevison hanged for murder.*10 May - Titus Oates arrested for perjury.*31 July - The village of Churchill, Oxfordshire, is largely destroyed by fire....
    
    )
• 1601
  • May - Spencer Compton, 2nd Earl of Northampton
    Spencer Compton, 2nd Earl of Northampton
    Spencer Compton, 2nd Earl of Northampton , styled Lord Compton from 1618 to 1630, was an English peer, soldier and politician....
    
     (died 1643
    1643 in England
    Events from the year 1643 in the Kingdom of England.-Events:* 23 January - English Civil War: Leeds falls to Parliamentary forces.* 13 March - English Civil War: The Roundheads routed the Cavaliers at the First Battle of Middlewich....
    
    )
  • Adrian Scrope
    Adrian Scrope
    Colonel Adrian Scrope was the twenty seventh of the fifty nine Commissioners who signed the Death Warrant of King Charles I. He was hanged, drawn and quartered at Charing Cross after the restoration of Charles II.-Early life:...
    
    , regicide (died 1660
    1660 in England
    Events from the year 1660 which occurred in the Kingdom of England. This is the year of Restoration.-Events:* 1 January** Colonel George Monck with his regiment crosses from Scotland to England at the village of Coldstream and begins advance towards London in support of English Restoration.**...
    
    )
  • Edward Somerset, 2nd Marquess of Worcester
    Edward Somerset, 2nd Marquess of Worcester
    Edward Somerset, 2nd Marquess of Worcester , styled Lord Herbert of Ragland from 1628–1644, was an English nobleman involved in royalist politics and an inventor...
    
     (died 1667
    1667 in England
    Events from the year 1667 in the Kingdom of England.-Events:* 27 April - The blind, impoverished John Milton sells the copyright of Paradise Lost for £10....
    
    )
• 1602
  • 29 March - John Lightfoot
    John Lightfoot
    John Lightfoot was an English churchman, rabbinical scholar, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge and Master of St Catharine's College, Cambridge.-Life:...
    
    , churchman and rabbinical scholar (died 1675
    1675 in England
    Events from the year 1675 in the Kingdom of England.-Events:* 4 March - John Flamsteed appointed as "astronomical observator", in effect, the first Astronomer Royal.* 25 March - Loss of HMY Mary off Anglesey....
    
    )
  • April - William Lawes
    William Lawes
    William Lawes was an English composer and musician.-Life and career:Lawes was born in Salisbury, Wiltshire and was baptised on 1 May 1602...
    
    , composer and musician (died 1645
    1645 in England
    Events from the year 1645 in the Kingdom of England.-Events:* January - A group of ministers appointed by the Long Parliament draws up the Directory of Public Worship which replaces the Book of Common Prayer...
    
    )
  • 1 May - William Lilly
    William Lilly
    William Lilly , was an English astrologer famed during his time. Lilly was particularly adept at interpreting the astrological charts drawn up for horary questions, as this was his speciality....
    
    , astrologer (died 1681
    1681 in England
    Events from the year 1681 in the Kingdom of England.-Events:* 18 January - 'Exclusion Bill Parliament' dissolved.* 14 March - William Penn receives a royal charter to establish a sectarian colony in the Americas....
    
    )
  • 12 October - William Chillingworth
    William Chillingworth
    William Chillingworth was a controversial English churchman.-Early life:He was born in Oxford, where his father served as mayor; William Laud was his godfather. In June 1618 he became a scholar of Trinity College, Oxford, of which he was made a fellow in June 1628...
    
    , churchman (died 1644
    1644 in England
    Events from the year 1644 in the Kingdom of England.-Events:* King Charles I opens a Royalist 'parliament' at Oxford.* 26 January - First English Civil War: At the Battle of Nantwich the Parliamentarians defeat the Royalists....
    
    )
  • 13 October - Algernon Percy, 10th Earl of Northumberland
    Algernon Percy, 10th Earl of Northumberland
    Algernon Percy, 10th Earl of Northumberland, 4th Baron Percy, KG was an English military leader and a prominent supporter of constitutional monarchy.-Family background:...
    
    , military leader (died 1668
    1668 in England
    Events from the year 1668 which occurred in England.-Events:* 28 January - England signs the Triple Alliance with the United Provinces and Sweden....
    
    )
  • 18 December - Simonds d'Ewes
    Simonds d'Ewes
    Sir Simonds d'Ewes, 1st Baronet was an antiquary and politician. He was bred for the bar, was a member of the Long Parliament and left notes on its transactions. d'Ewes took the Puritan side in the Civil War...
    
    , antiquarian and politician (died 1650
    1650 in England
    Events from the year 1650 in England.-Events:* 1 May - The future King Charles II of England signs the Treaty of Breda with the Scottish Covenanters.* 23 June - Charles arrives in Scotland where he signs the Covenant....
    
    )
  • John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton
    John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton
    John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton was an English royalist soldier. From 1648 he was closely associated with James, Duke of York, and rose to prominence, fortune and fame.-First English Civil War:...
    
     (died 1678
    1678 in England
    Events from the year 1678 in the Kingdom of England.-Events:* 31 May - The Godiva Procession, a commemoration held in honour of Lady Godiva's legendary naked ride on horseback through the streets of Coventry in protest against her husband's treatment of the citizens, begins.* 6 September - Titus...
    
    )
  • John Bradshaw
    John Bradshaw (judge)
    John Bradshaw was an English judge. He is most notable for his role as President of the High Court of Justice for the trial of King Charles I and as the first Lord President of the Council of State of the English Commonwealth....
    
    , English judge and regicide (died 1659
    1659 in England
    Events from the year 1659 in England.-Events:* 16 February - The first known cheque is written.* 22 April - Lord Protector Richard Cromwell disbands the Parliament of England....
    
    )
  • John Greaves
    John Greaves
    John Greaves was an English mathematician, astronomer and antiquary.-Life:He was born in Colemore, near Alresford, Hampshire. He was the eldest son of John Greaves, rector of Colemore, and Sarah Greaves...
    
    , mathematician and antiquary (died 1652
    1652 in England
    Events from the year 1652 in the Commonwealth of England.-Events:* 19 May - First Anglo-Dutch War: Battle of Goodwin Sands fought off Dover between Lt.-Admiral Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp's 42 Dutch ships and 21 English ships divided into two squadrons, one commanded by Robert Blake and the other...
    
    )
  • Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester
    Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester
    Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester KG, KB, FRS was an important commander of Parliamentary forces in the First English Civil War, and for a time Oliver Cromwell's superior.-Life:...
    
     (died 1671
    1671 in England
    Events from the year 1671 in the Kingdom of England.-Events:* 9 May - Thomas Blood, disguised as a clergyman, attempts to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London. He is immediately caught because he is too drunk to run with the loot...
    
    )
  • Henry Marten
    Henry Marten (regicide)
    Sir Henry Marten was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1640 and 1653...
    
    , regicide (died 1680
    1680 in England
    Events from the year 1680 in the Kingdom of England.-Events:* 4 November - A second Exclusion Bill is proposed to exclude the Catholic James, Duke of York from inheriting the throne.* 15 November - The Exclusion Bill is defeated in the House of Lords....
    
    )
  • Dudley North, 4th Baron North
    Dudley North, 4th Baron North
    Dudley North, 4th Baron North K.B. was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1640 and 1660.-Life:...
    
     (died 1677
    1677 in England
    Events from the year 1677 in the Kingdom of England.-Events:* 16 February - Politicians the Earl of Shaftesbury, Duke of Buckingham, Lord Wharton and the Earl of Salisbury are arrested and sent to the Tower of London....
    
    )
  • Owen Feltham
    Owen Feltham
    Owen Feltham was an English writer, author of a book entitled Resolves, Divine, Moral, and Political , containing 146 short essays. It had great popularity in its day. Though sometimes stiff and affected in style, it contains many sound, if not original or brilliant, reflections, and occasional...
    
    , religious writer (died 1668
    1668 in England
    Events from the year 1668 which occurred in England.-Events:* 28 January - England signs the Triple Alliance with the United Provinces and Sweden....
    
    )
• 1603
  • 21 January - Shackerley Marmion
    Shackerley Marmion
    Shackerley Marmion , also Shakerley, Shakerly, Schackerley, Marmyon, Marmyun, or Mermion, was an early 17th-century dramatist, often classed among the Sons of Ben, the followers of Ben Jonson who continued his style of comedy...
    
    , dramatist (died 1639)
  • 27 January - Harbottle Grimston, politician (died 1685
    1685 in England
    Events from the year 1685 in the Kingdom of England.-Incumbents:*Monarch - King Charles II , King James II-Events:* 6 February - James Stuart, Duke of York becomes King James II of England.* 23 April - Coronation of King James II....
    
    )
  • 18 March - Simon Bradstreet
    Simon Bradstreet
    Simon Bradstreet was a colonial magistrate, businessman, diplomat, and the last governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Arriving in Massachusetts on the Winthrop Fleet in 1630, Bradstreet was almost constantly involved in the politics of the colony but became its governor only in 1679...
    
    , colonial magistrate (died 1697
    1697 in England
    Events from the year 1697 in the Kingdom of England.-Events:* 20 September - The Treaty of Ryswick ends the War of the Grand Alliance.* 2 December - First service held in St Paul's Cathedral since rebuilding work after the Great Fire of London began....
    
    )
  • 11 July - Kenelm Digby
    Kenelm Digby
    Sir Kenelm Digby was an English courtier and diplomat. He was also a highly reputed natural philosopher, and known as a leading Roman Catholic intellectual and Blackloist. For his versatility, Anthony à Wood called him the "magazine of all arts".-Early life and career:He was born at Gayhurst,...
    
    , privateer and alchemist (died 1665
    1665 in England
    Events from the year 1665 in the Kingdom of England.-Events:* 4 March - Beginning of the Second Anglo-Dutch War.* 6 March - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society begins publication....
    
    )
  • 21 December - Roger Williams
    Roger Williams (theologian)
    Roger Williams was an English Protestant theologian who was an early proponent of religious freedom and the separation of church and state. In 1636, he began the colony of Providence Plantation, which provided a refuge for religious minorities. Williams started the first Baptist church in America,...
    
    , theologian and colonist (died 1684
    1684 in England
    Events from the year 1684 in the Kingdom of England.-Events:*15 March - Highwayman John Nevison hanged for murder.*10 May - Titus Oates arrested for perjury.*31 July - The village of Churchill, Oxfordshire, is largely destroyed by fire....
    
    )
  • John Ashburnham, Member of Parliament (died 1671
    1671 in England
    Events from the year 1671 in the Kingdom of England.-Events:* 9 May - Thomas Blood, disguised as a clergyman, attempts to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London. He is immediately caught because he is too drunk to run with the loot...
    
    )
  • Daniel Blagrave
    Daniel Blagrave
    Daniel Blagrave was a prominent resident of the town of Reading, in the English county of Berkshire. He was Member of Parliament for the Parliamentary Borough of Reading over several periods between 1640 and 1660, and was also one of the signatories of King Charles I's death warrant.Daniel...
    
    , Member of Parliament (died 1668
    1668 in England
    Events from the year 1668 which occurred in England.-Events:* 28 January - England signs the Triple Alliance with the United Provinces and Sweden....
    
    )
• 1604
  • 3 August - John Eliot
    John Eliot (missionary)
    John Eliot was a Puritan missionary to the American Indians. His efforts earned him the designation “the Indian apostle.”-English education and Massachusetts ministry:...
    
    , puritan missionary (died 1690
    1690 in England
    Events from the year 1690 in the Kingdom of England.-Events:* 7 January - The first recorded full peal is rung, at St Sepulchre-without-Newgate in the City of London, marking a new era in change ringing....
    
    )
  • 13 September - William Brereton
    Sir William Brereton, 1st Baronet
    Sir William Brereton, 1st Baronet was an English writer and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1628 and 1659. He was a commander in the Parliamentary army in the English Civil War....
    
    , soldier and politician (died 1661
    1661 in England
    Events from the year 1661 which occurred in the Kingdom of England.-Events:* 6 January - The Fifth Monarchists unsuccessfully attempt to seize control of London...
    
    )
  • November - Jasper Mayne
    Jasper Mayne
    Jasper Mayne was an English clergyman, translator, and a minor poet and dramatist.Mayne was baptized at Hatherleigh, Devon, on 23 November 1604, and educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford...
    
    , dramatist (died 1672
    1672 in England
    Events from the year 1672 in the Kingdom of England.-Events:* 2 January - Cash payments by the Exchequer suspended for a year, due to fears of imminent bankruptcy....
    
    )
  • Isaac Ambrose
    Isaac Ambrose
    Isaac Ambrose was an English Puritan divine, the son of Richard Ambrose, vicar of Ormskirk, and was probably descended from the Ambroses of Lowick in Furness, a well-known Roman Catholic family....
    
    , Puritan divine (died 1664
    1664 in England
    Events from the year 1664 in the Kingdom of England.-Events:* 12 March - Province of New Jersey becomes an English colony in North America.* 5 April - Passing of the Triennial Act....
    
    )
  • Edward Pococke
    Edward Pococke
    Edward Pococke was an English Orientalist and biblical scholar.-Early life:He was the son of clergyman from Chieveley in Berkshire, and was educated at Lord Williams's School of Thame in Oxfordshire and at Corpus Christi College, Oxford...
    
    , Orientalist and biblical scholar (died 1691
    1691 in England
    Events from the year 1691 in the Kingdom of England.-Events:* April - John Tillotson enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury.* 9 April - a fire at the Palace of Whitehall in London destroys its Stone Gallery....
    
    )
• 1605
  • June - Thomas Randolph
    Thomas Randolph (poet)
    Thomas Randolph was an English poet and dramatist. He was baptized on 18 June 1605 and was the uncle of American colonist William Randolph.-Education:...
    
    , poet and dramatist (died 1635)
  • August - Bulstrode Whitelocke
    Bulstrode Whitelocke
    Sir Bulstrode Whitelocke was an English lawyer, writer, parliamentarian and Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England.- Biography :...
    
    , lawyer and parliamentarian (died 1675
    1675 in England
    Events from the year 1675 in the Kingdom of England.-Events:* 4 March - John Flamsteed appointed as "astronomical observator", in effect, the first Astronomer Royal.* 25 March - Loss of HMY Mary off Anglesey....
    
    )
  • 8 August - Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore
    Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore
    Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, 1st Proprietor and 1st Proprietary Governor of Maryland, 9th Proprietary Governor of Newfoundland , was an English peer who was the first proprietor of the Province of Maryland. He received the proprietorship after the death of his father, George Calvert, the...
    
    , colonial Governor of Maryland (died 1675
    1675 in England
    Events from the year 1675 in the Kingdom of England.-Events:* 4 March - John Flamsteed appointed as "astronomical observator", in effect, the first Astronomer Royal.* 25 March - Loss of HMY Mary off Anglesey....
    
    )
  • 18 August - Henry Hammond
    Henry Hammond
    Henry Hammond was an English churchman.-Early life:He was born at Chertsey in Surrey on 18 August 1605, the youngest son of John Hammond, physician. He was educated at Eton College, and from age 13 at Magdalen College, Oxford, becoming demy or scholar in 1619. On 11 December 1622 he graduated B.A....
    
    , churchman (died 1660
    1660 in England
    Events from the year 1660 which occurred in the Kingdom of England. This is the year of Restoration.-Events:* 1 January** Colonel George Monck with his regiment crosses from Scotland to England at the village of Coldstream and begins advance towards London in support of English Restoration.**...
    
    )
  • 12 September - William Dugdale
    William Dugdale
    Sir William Dugdale was an English antiquary and herald. As a scholar he was influential in the development of medieval history as an academic subject.-Life:...
    
    , antiquary (died 1686
    1686 in England
    Events from the year 1686 in the Kingdom of England.- Events :* 10 July - Court of Ecclesiastical Commission created.* 17 July - King James appoints four Catholics to the Privy Council of England.-Undated:...
    
    )
  • 19 October - Thomas Browne
    Thomas Browne
    Sir Thomas Browne was an English author of varied works which reveal his wide learning in diverse fields including medicine, religion, science and the esoteric....
    
     physician and philosopher (died 1682
    1682 in England
    Events from the year 1682 in the Kingdom of England.-Events:* 11 March - The Royal Hospital Chelsea for old soldiers is founded in London.* 25 August - Following the Bideford witch trial, three women become the last known to be hanged for witchcraft in England, at Exeter.* September - Halley's...
    
    )
  • 4 November - William Habington
    William Habington
    William Habington was an English poet.He was born at Hindlip Hall, Worcestershire, and belonged to a well-known Catholic family...
    
    , poet (died 1654
    1654 in England
    Events from the year 1654 in The Protectorate.-Events:* 5 April - Signing of the Treaty of Westminster ends the First Anglo-Dutch War, and the Dutch agree to observe the Navigation Acts.* 11 April - England signs a treaty of commerce with Sweden....
    
    )
  • William Berkeley, governor of Virginia (died 1677
    1677 in England
    Events from the year 1677 in the Kingdom of England.-Events:* 16 February - Politicians the Earl of Shaftesbury, Duke of Buckingham, Lord Wharton and the Earl of Salisbury are arrested and sent to the Tower of London....
    
    )
  • John Gauden
    John Gauden
    John Gauden was an English bishop of Exeter then bishop of Worcester and writer, and the reputed author of the important Royalist work Eikon Basilike.-Life:...
    
    , bishop and writer (died 1662
    1662 in England
    Events from the year 1662 in the Kingdom of England.-Events:* 17 March - Two old women are hanged after being found guilty of witchcraft at the Bury St. Edmunds witch trial.* 2 May/3 May - Catherine of Braganza marries Charles II of England...
    
    )
  • Thomas Nabbes
    Thomas Nabbes
    Thomas Nabbes was an English dramatist.He was born in humble circumstances in Worcestershire, and educated at Exeter College, Oxford in 1621...
    
    , dramatist (died c. 1645
    1645 in England
    Events from the year 1645 in the Kingdom of England.-Events:* January - A group of ministers appointed by the Long Parliament draws up the Directory of Public Worship which replaces the Book of Common Prayer...
    
    )
  • Francis Willoughby, 5th Baron Willoughby of Parham
    Francis Willoughby, 5th Baron Willoughby of Parham
    Francis Willoughby, 5th Baron Willoughby of Parham was an English peer of the House of Lords.He succeeded to the title 14 October 1617 on the death in infancy of his elder brother Henry Willoughby, 4th Lord Willoughby of Parham...
    
     (died 1666
    1666 in England
    Events from the year 1666 in England. This is the first year to be designated as an Annus mirabilis, in John Dryden's 1667 poem so titled, celebrating England's failure to be beaten either by fire or by the Dutch.-Events:...
    
    )
  • William Goffe
    William Goffe
    William Goffe was an English Roundhead politician and soldier, perhaps best known for his role in the execution of King Charles I and later flight to America.-Early life:...
    
    , parliamentarian (died 1679
    1679 in England
    Events from the year 1679 in the Kingdom of England.-Events:* 24 January - King Charles II dismisses the Cavalier Parliament over the Exclusion crisis.* 6 March - Charles II's third Parliament assembles and is led by the Privy Council Ministry....
    
    )
• 1606
  • 28 February - William Davenant
    William Davenant
    Sir William Davenant , also spelled D'Avenant, was an English poet and playwright. Along with Thomas Killigrew, Davenant was one of the rare figures in English Renaissance theatre whose career spanned both the Caroline and Restoration eras and who was active both before and after the English Civil...
    
    , poet and playwright (died 1668
    1668 in England
    Events from the year 1668 which occurred in England.-Events:* 28 January - England signs the Triple Alliance with the United Provinces and Sweden....
    
    )
  • March - Henry Pierrepont, 1st Marquess of Dorchester
    Henry Pierrepont, 1st Marquess of Dorchester
    Henry Pierrepont, 1st Marquess of Dorchester, PC, FRS was an English peer, the son of the Robert Pierrepont, 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull.-Career:...
    
     (died 1680
    1680 in England
    Events from the year 1680 in the Kingdom of England.-Events:* 4 November - A second Exclusion Bill is proposed to exclude the Catholic James, Duke of York from inheriting the throne.* 15 November - The Exclusion Bill is defeated in the House of Lords....
    
    )
  • 3 March - Edmund Waller
    Edmund Waller
    Edmund Waller, FRS was an English poet and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1624 and 1679.- Early life :...
    
    , poet (died 1687
    1687 in England
    Events from the year 1687 in the Kingdom of England.-Events:* 2 April - King James II of England issues the Declaration of Indulgence, suspending laws against Catholics and non-conformists....
    
    )
  • 27 September - Richard Busby
    Richard Busby
    The Rev. Dr. Richard Busby was an English Anglican priest who served as head master of Westminster School for more than fifty-five years.-Life:...
    
    , clergyman (died 1695
    1695 in England
    Events from the year 1695 in the Kingdom of England.-Events:* 13 January - Princess Anne returns to court to act as royal hostess.* April - Parliament decides not to renew the statutes requiring press censorship....
    
    )
  • Leonard Calvert
    Leonard Calvert
    Leonard Calvert was the 1st Proprietary Governor of Maryland. He was the second son of George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore, the first proprietary of the Province of Maryland...
    
    , governor of Baltimore (died 1647
    1647 in England
    Events from the year 1647 in the Kingdom of England.-Events:* 30 January - Scots hand over King Charles I to England in return for £40,000 of army back-pay.* March - Folk dancing and bear-baiting banned....
    
    )
  • Edmund Castell
    Edmund Castell
    Edmund Castell was an English orientalist.He was born at Tadlow, in Cambridgeshire. At the age of fifteen he entered Emmanuel College, Cambridge, gaining his BA in 1624-5 and his MA in 1628. Appointed Professor of Arabic in 1666, with the full title 'Sir Thomas Adams Professor of Arabic'. He...
    
    , orientalist (died 1685
    1685 in England
    Events from the year 1685 in the Kingdom of England.-Incumbents:*Monarch - King Charles II , King James II-Events:* 6 February - James Stuart, Duke of York becomes King James II of England.* 23 April - Coronation of King James II....
    
    )
  • Thomas Harrison, puritan soldier and Fifth Monarchist (died 1660
    1660 in England
    Events from the year 1660 which occurred in the Kingdom of England. This is the year of Restoration.-Events:* 1 January** Colonel George Monck with his regiment crosses from Scotland to England at the village of Coldstream and begins advance towards London in support of English Restoration.**...
    
    )
  • Thomas Herbert, traveller and historian (died 1682
    1682 in England
    Events from the year 1682 in the Kingdom of England.-Events:* 11 March - The Royal Hospital Chelsea for old soldiers is founded in London.* 25 August - Following the Bideford witch trial, three women become the last known to be hanged for witchcraft in England, at Exeter.* September - Halley's...
    
    )
  • John Robartes, 1st Earl of Radnor
    John Robartes, 1st Earl of Radnor
    John Robartes, 1st Earl of Radnor PC , known as The Lord Robartes between 1634 and 1679, was an English politician, who fought for the Parliamentary cause during the English Civil War...
    
     (died 1685
    1685 in England
    Events from the year 1685 in the Kingdom of England.-Incumbents:*Monarch - King Charles II , King James II-Events:* 6 February - James Stuart, Duke of York becomes King James II of England.* 23 April - Coronation of King James II....
    
    )
  • Thomas Washbourne
    Thomas Washbourne
    Thomas Washbourne was an English clergyman and poet, known for his 1654 book Divine Poems. The Poems of Thomas Washbourne, D.D. was published in 1869, edited by Alexander Grosart, and kept Washbourne's name as a religious poet alive....
    
    , clergyman and poet (died 1687
    1687 in England
    Events from the year 1687 in the Kingdom of England.-Events:* 2 April - King James II of England issues the Declaration of Indulgence, suspending laws against Catholics and non-conformists....
    
    )
• 1607
  • 26 November - John Harvard
    John Harvard (clergyman)
    John Harvard was an English minister in America whose deathbed bequest to the Massachusetts Bay Colony's fledgling New College was so gratefully received that the school was renamed Harvard College in his honor.-Biography:Harvard was born and raised in Southwark, England, the fourth of nine...
    
    , clergyman and colonist (died 1638)
  • Thomas Barlow
    Thomas Barlow (bishop)
    Thomas Barlow was an English academic and clergyman, who became Provost of The Queen's College, Oxford and Bishop of Lincoln. He was considered, in his own times and by Edmund Venables writing in the Dictionary of National Biography, to have been a trimmer, a reputation mixed in with his academic...
    
    , Bishop of Lincoln (died 1691
    1691 in England
    Events from the year 1691 in the Kingdom of England.-Events:* April - John Tillotson enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury.* 9 April - a fire at the Palace of Whitehall in London destroys its Stone Gallery....
    
    )
  • John Boys
    John Boys
    John Boys is best known as the Royalist captain who was the Governor of Donnington Castle in Berkshire during the English Civil War....
    
    , Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (died 1664
    1664 in England
    Events from the year 1664 in the Kingdom of England.-Events:* 12 March - Province of New Jersey becomes an English colony in North America.* 5 April - Passing of the Triennial Act....
    
    )
  • John Dixwell
    John Dixwell
    John Dixwell was one of the judges who tried King Charles I of England and condemned him to death.-Biography:He was the younger son of Edgar Dixwell, but was raised by his uncle Basil Dixwell of Broome Park, near Canterbury in Kent...
    
    ,judge and regicide (died 1689
    1689 in England
    Events from the year 1689 in the Kingdom of England.-Incumbents:*Co-monarchs - King William III and Queen Mary.-Events:...
    
    )
  • Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton
    Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton
    Sir Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton, KG , styled Lord Wriothesley before 1624, was a 17th century English statesman, a staunch supporter of Charles II who would rise to the position of Lord High Treasurer after the English Restoration...
    
     (died 1667
    1667 in England
    Events from the year 1667 in the Kingdom of England.-Events:* 27 April - The blind, impoverished John Milton sells the copyright of Paradise Lost for £10....
    
    )
• 1608
  • June - Richard Fanshawe, diplomat (died 1666
    1666 in England
    Events from the year 1666 in England. This is the first year to be designated as an Annus mirabilis, in John Dryden's 1667 poem so titled, celebrating England's failure to be beaten either by fire or by the Dutch.-Events:...
    
    )
  • 14 July - George Goring, Lord Goring
    George Goring, Lord Goring
    George Goring, Lord Goring was an English Royalist soldier. He was known by the courtesy title Lord Goring as the eldest son of the 1st Earl of Norwich.- The Goring family :...
    
    , Royalist soldier (died 1657
    1657 in England
    Events from the year 1657 in the The Protectorate.-Events:* January - Regional military government in England abolished.* 13 March - Anglo-Spanish War: With the Treaty of Paris, France and England form an alliance against Spain....
    
    )
  • 6 December - George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle
    George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle
    George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, KG was an English soldier and politician and a key figure in the restoration of Charles II.-Early life and career:...
    
    , soldier (died 1670
    1670 in England
    Events from the year 1670 in England.-Events:* 1 June - The secret treaty of Dover is signed between King Charles II of England and France.* 8 July O.S...
    
    )
  • 9 December - John Milton
    John Milton
    John Milton was an English poet, polemicist, a scholarly man of letters, and a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under Oliver Cromwell...
    
    , poet (died 1674
    1674 in England
    Events from the year 1674 in the Kingdom of England.-Events:* 19 February - England and the Netherlands sign the Treaty of Westminster ending the Third Anglo-Dutch War...
    
    )
  • John Desborough
    John Desborough
    John Desborough was an English soldier and politician who supported the parliamentary cause during the English Civil War.-Life:He was the son of James Desborough of Eltisley, Cambridgeshire, and of Elizabeth Hatley of Over in the same county, was baptized on 13 November 1608. He was educated for...
    
    , soldier and politician (died 1680
    1680 in England
    Events from the year 1680 in the Kingdom of England.-Events:* 4 November - A second Exclusion Bill is proposed to exclude the Catholic James, Duke of York from inheriting the throne.* 15 November - The Exclusion Bill is defeated in the House of Lords....
    
    )
  • Thomas Fuller
    Thomas Fuller
    Thomas Fuller was an English churchman and historian. He is now remembered for his writings, particularly his Worthies of England, published after his death...
    
    , churchman and historian (died 1661
    1661 in England
    Events from the year 1661 which occurred in the Kingdom of England.-Events:* 6 January - The Fifth Monarchists unsuccessfully attempt to seize control of London...
    
    )
  • Edward Rainbowe
    Edward Rainbowe
    Edward Rainbowe or Rainbow was an English clergyman and a noted preacher.-Life:He was born on 20 April 1608 at Blyton in Lindsey, Lincolnshire, where his father Thomas Rainbowe was vicar. His mother, Rebecca, daughter of David Allen, rector of the neighbouring parish of Ludborough, was educated in...
    
    , clergyman and a preacher (died 1684
    1684 in England
    Events from the year 1684 in the Kingdom of England.-Events:*15 March - Highwayman John Nevison hanged for murder.*10 May - Titus Oates arrested for perjury.*31 July - The village of Churchill, Oxfordshire, is largely destroyed by fire....
    
    )
  • John Tradescant the younger
    John Tradescant the younger
    John Tradescant the Younger , son of John Tradescant the elder, was a botanist and gardener, born in Meopham, Kent and educated at The King's School, Canterbury...
    
    , botanist and gardener (died 1662
    1662 in England
    Events from the year 1662 in the Kingdom of England.-Events:* 17 March - Two old women are hanged after being found guilty of witchcraft at the Bury St. Edmunds witch trial.* 2 May/3 May - Catherine of Braganza marries Charles II of England...
    
    )
• 1609
  • 10 February - John Suckling
    John Suckling (poet)
    Sir John Suckling was an English poet and one prominent figure among those renowned for careless gaiety, wit, and all the accomplishments of a Cavalier poet; and also the inventor of the card game Cribbage...
    
    , poet (died 1642
    1642 in England
    Events from the year 1642 in the Kingdom of England.-Events:* 4 January - Charles I attempts to arrest five leading members of the Long Parliament, but they escape...
    
    )
  • 18 February - Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon
    Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon
    Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon was an English historian and statesman, and grandfather of two English monarchs, Mary II and Queen Anne.-Early life:...
    
    , historian and statesman (died 1674
    1674 in England
    Events from the year 1674 in the Kingdom of England.-Events:* 19 February - England and the Netherlands sign the Treaty of Westminster ending the Third Anglo-Dutch War...
    
    )
  • 29 March - Sarah Boyle, noblewoman (died 1633)
  • 8 October - John Clarke
    John Clarke (1609-1676)
    John Clarke was a medical doctor, Baptist minister, co-founder of the colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, author of its influential charter, and a leading advocate of religious freedom in the Americas....
    
    , physician (died 1676
    1676 in England
    Events from the year 1676 in the Kingdom of England.-Events:* 18 February - Isaac Newton observes to Robert Hooke that "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants"....
    
    )
  • 26 October - William Sprague
    William Sprague (1609–1675)
    William Sprague left England on the ship Lyon's Whelp for Plymouth/Salem Massachusetts. He was originally from Upwey, near Weymouth, Dorset, England....
    
    , co-founder of Charlestown, Massachusetts (died 1675
    1675 in England
    Events from the year 1675 in the Kingdom of England.-Events:* 4 March - John Flamsteed appointed as "astronomical observator", in effect, the first Astronomer Royal.* 25 March - Loss of HMY Mary off Anglesey....
    
    )
  • 1 November - Matthew Hale
    Matthew Hale (jurist)
    Sir Matthew Hale SL was an influential English barrister, judge and jurist most noted for his treatise Historia Placitorum Coronæ, or The History of the Pleas of the Crown. Born to a barrister and his wife, who had both died by the time he was 5, Hale was raised by his father's relative, a strict...
    
    , Lord Chief Justice (died 1676
    1676 in England
    Events from the year 1676 in the Kingdom of England.-Events:* 18 February - Isaac Newton observes to Robert Hooke that "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants"....
    
    )
  • 24 December - Philip Warwick
    Philip Warwick
    Sir Philip Warwick , English writer and politician, born in Westminster, was the son of Thomas Warwick, or Warrick, a musician....
    
    , writer and politician (died 1683
    1683 in England
    Events from the year 1683 in the Kingdom of England.-Events:* 9 January - Charles II gives orders establishing the dates on which he will perform the "Touching the King's Evil" ceremony....
    
    )
  • Samuel Cooper
    Samuel Cooper
    Samuel Cooper was an English miniature painter, and younger brother of Alexander Cooper.He is believed to have been born in London, and was a nephew of John Hoskins, the miniature painter, by whom he was educated. He lived in Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, and frequented the Covent Garden...
    
    , miniature painter (died 1672
    1672 in England
    Events from the year 1672 in the Kingdom of England.-Events:* 2 January - Cash payments by the Exchequer suspended for a year, due to fears of imminent bankruptcy....
    
    )
  • Captain John Underhill
    Captain John Underhill
    John Underhill was an early English settler and soldier in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the Province of New Hampshire, the New Haven Colony, New Netherland, and later the Province of New York...
    
    , soldier and colonist (died 1672
    1672 in England
    Events from the year 1672 in the Kingdom of England.-Events:* 2 January - Cash payments by the Exchequer suspended for a year, due to fears of imminent bankruptcy....
    
    )
  • Gerrard Winstanley
    Gerrard Winstanley
    Gerrard Winstanley was an English Protestant religious reformer and political activist during the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell...
    
    , Protestant religious reformer (died 1676
    1676 in England
    Events from the year 1676 in the Kingdom of England.-Events:* 18 February - Isaac Newton observes to Robert Hooke that "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants"....
    
    )

Deaths

• 1600
  • April - Thomas Deloney
    Thomas Deloney
    Thomas Deloney was an English novelist and balladist.He appears to have worked as a silk-weaver in Norwich, but was in London by 1586, and in the course of the next ten years is known to have written about fifty ballads, some of which got him into trouble, and caused him to keep a low profile for...
    
    , writer (born 1543)
  • 3 November - Richard Hooker, Anglican theologian (born 1554)
• 1601
  • 19 January - Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke
    Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke
    Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke KG was an English peer of the Elizabethan era.-Life:He was the son of William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke and Anne Parr. His aunt was queen consort Catherine Parr, last wife of King Henry VIII. Herbert was responsible for the costly restoration of Cardiff Castle...
    
    , statesman (born 1534)
  • 25 February - Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex
    Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex
    Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, KG was an English nobleman and a favourite of Elizabeth I. Politically ambitious, and a committed general, he was placed under house arrest following a poor campaign in Ireland during the Nine Years' War in 1599...
    
    , politician (born 1566)
  • 27 February - Anne Line
    Anne Line
    Saint Anne Line was an English martyr who was executed during the reign of Elizabeth I for harbouring a priest. She was born in 1567, the second daughter of Heigham, Esq., of Essex, a strict Calvinist, and was, together with her brother William, disinherited for converting to Catholicism...
    
    , saint (year of birth unknown)
  • Thomas North
    Thomas North
    Sir Thomas North was an English translator of Plutarch, second son of the 1st Baron North.-Life:He is supposed to have been a student of Peterhouse, Cambridge, and was entered at Lincoln's Inn in 1557. In 1574 he accompanied his brother, Lord North, on a visit to the French court. He served as...
    
    , translator of Plutarch (born 1535)
  • John Shakespeare
    John Shakespeare
    John Shakespeare was the father of William Shakespeare. He was the son of Richard Shakespeare of Snitterfield, a farmer. He moved to Stratford-upon-Avon and married Mary Arden, with whom he had eight children, five of whom survived into adulthood...
    
    , glover and farmer, father of William Shakespeare
    William Shakespeare
    William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"...
    
     (born 1529)
• 1602
  • 13 February - Alexander Nowell
    Alexander Nowell
    Alexander Nowell was an English Puritan theologian and clergyman, who served as dean of St Paul's during much of Elizabeth I's reign.-Biography:...
    
    , clergyman (born 1507)
  • October - Thomas Morley
    Thomas Morley
    Thomas Morley was an English composer, theorist, editor and organist of the Renaissance, and the foremost member of the English Madrigal School. He was the most famous composer of secular music in Elizabethan England and an organist at St Paul's Cathedral...
    
    , composer (born 1557)
  • 29 November - Anthony Holborne
    Anthony Holborne
    Anthony Holborne was a composer of English consort music during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I.-Life:Holborne entered Pembroke College, Cambridge in 1562. He was admitted to the Inner Temple Court in 1565. Holborne married Elisabeth Marten on 14 June 1584. On the title page of both his books he...
    
    , composer (born c. 1545)
• 1603
  • 15 January - Catherine Carey
    Catherine Carey
    Katherine Carey, often spelt Catherine Carey, after her marriage Katherine Knollys and later Lady Knollys, pronounced "Noles" Katherine Carey, often spelt Catherine Carey, after her marriage Katherine Knollys and later Lady Knollys, pronounced "Noles" Katherine Carey, often spelt Catherine Carey,...
    
    , Lady in waiting to Elizabeth I of England
    Elizabeth I of England
    Elizabeth I was queen regnant of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death. Sometimes called The Virgin Queen, Gloriana, or Good Queen Bess, Elizabeth was the fifth and last monarch of the Tudor dynasty...
    
     (year of birth unknown)
  • 24 March - Queen Elizabeth I
    Elizabeth I of England
    Elizabeth I was queen regnant of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death. Sometimes called The Virgin Queen, Gloriana, or Good Queen Bess, Elizabeth was the fifth and last monarch of the Tudor dynasty...
    
     (born 1533)
  • 8 September - George Carey, 2nd Baron Hunsdon
    George Carey, 2nd Baron Hunsdon
    George Carey, 2nd Baron Hunsdon KG was the eldest son of Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon and Anne Morgan. His father was first cousin to Elizabeth I of England....
    
    , politician (born 1547)
  • 9 December - William Watson
    William Watson (priest)
    William Watson , English Roman Catholic priest and conspirator, executed for treason.-Life:In 1586 he became a Roman Catholic priest in France, and during the concluding years of Elizabeth's reign he paid several visits to England; he was imprisoned and tortured more than once...
    
    , conspirator (born 1559)
  • 10 December - William Gilbert, scientist (plague) (born 1544)
  • 27 December - Thomas Cartwright
    Thomas Cartwright (churchman)
    Thomas Cartwright was an English Puritan churchman.He was born in Hertfordshire, and studied divinity at St John's College, Cambridge. On the accession of Queen Mary I of England in 1553, he was forced to leave the university, and found occupation as clerk to a counsellor-at-law...
    
    , Puritan clergyman (born c. 1535)
  • Edward Fenton
    Edward Fenton
    Edward Fenton was an English navigator, son of Henry Fenton and brother of Sir Geoffrey Fenton.He was a native of Nottinghamshire...
    
    , navigator (year of birth unknown)
  • Ralph Lane
    Ralph Lane
    Sir Ralph Lane was an English explorer of the Elizabethan era. He was part of the unsuccessful attempt in 1585 to colonize Roanoke Island, North Carolina. He also served the Crown in Ireland and was knighted by the Queen in 1593....
    
    , explorer (born 1530)
• 1604
  • 29 February - John Whitgift
    John Whitgift
    John Whitgift was the Archbishop of Canterbury from 1583 to his death. Noted for his hospitality, he was somewhat ostentatious in his habits, sometimes visiting Canterbury and other towns attended by a retinue of 800 horsemen...
    
    , Archbishop of Canterbury
    Archbishop of Canterbury
    The Archbishop of Canterbury is the senior bishop and principal leader of the Church of England, the symbolic head of the worldwide Anglican Communion, and the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury. In his role as head of the Anglican Communion, the archbishop leads the third largest group...
    
     (born 1530)
  • 24 June - Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford
    Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford
    Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford was an Elizabethan courtier, playwright, lyric poet, sportsman and patron of the arts, and is currently the most popular alternative candidate proposed for the authorship of Shakespeare's works....
    
    , politician (born 1550)
  • 3 December - George Hastings, 4th Earl of Huntingdon
    George Hastings, 4th Earl of Huntingdon
    Sir George Hastings, 4th Earl of Huntingdon was an English nobleman.He was a son of Francis Hastings, 2nd Earl of Huntingdon and Catherine Pole. He was a younger brother of Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon and older brother of Francis Hastings...
    
     (born 1540)
  • Thomas Churchyard
    Thomas Churchyard
    Thomas Churchyard , English author, was born at Shrewsbury, the son of a farmer.-Life:Churchyard received a good education, and, having speedily dissipated at court the money with which his father provided him, he entered the household of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey...
    
    , author (born 1520)
  • Thomas Storer
    Thomas Storer
    Thomas Storer was an English poet.Storer was born in London, England around 1571, and in 1587, enrolled into Christ Church, Oxford where he would attain his degree of M.A. in 1594. Toward the latter end of that year, Storer wrote the Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey — a piece which illustrated...
    
    , poet (born 1571)
  • Richard Topcliffe
    Richard Topcliffe
    Richard Topcliffe was a landowner and Member of Parliament during the reign of Elizabeth I of England. He became notorious as a priest-hunter and torturer and was often referred to as the Queen's principal "interrogator"....
    
    , Member of Parliament and torturer (born 1532)
• 1605
  • 5 April - Adam Loftus
    Adam Loftus (Archbishop)
    thumb|right|200px|Archbishop Adam LoftusAdam Loftus was Archbishop of Armagh, and later Dublin, and Lord Chancellor of Ireland from 1581. He was also the first Provost of Trinity College, Dublin.-Early life:...
    
    , Catholic archbishop (born c. 1533)
  • 6 April - John Stow
    John Stow
    John Stow was an English historian and antiquarian.-Early life:The son of Thomas Stow, a tallow-chandler, he was born about 1525 in London, in the parish of St Michael, Cornhill. His father's whole rent for his house and garden was only 6s. 6d. a year, and Stow in his youth fetched milk every...
    
    , historian and antiquarian (born 1525)
  • 11 September - Sir Thomas Tresham
    Thomas Tresham II
    Sir Thomas Tresham was a Catholic recusant politician at the end of the Tudor dynasty and the start of the Stuart dynasty in England....
    
    , politician (born 1550)
  • 8 November - Robert Catesby
    Robert Catesby
    Robert Catesby , was the leader of a group of provincial English Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605....
    
    , conspirator (born 1573)
  • December - Francis Tresham
    Francis Tresham
    Francis Tresham , eldest son of Sir Thomas Tresham and Merial Throckmorton, was a member of the group of English provincial catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605, a conspiracy to assassinate King James I of England...
    
    , conspirator (born 1567)
  • 29 December - John Davis
    John Davis (English explorer)
    John Davis , was one of the chief English navigators and explorers under Elizabeth I, especially in Polar regions and in the Far East.-Early life:...
    
    , explorer (born 1550)
• 1606
  • 30 January
    • Everard Digby
      Everard Digby
      Sir Everard Digby was a member of the group of provincial English Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605. Although he was raised in a Protestant household, and married a Protestant, Digby and his wife were converted to Catholicism by the Jesuit priest John Gerard...
      
      , conspirator (executed) (born 1578)
    • Robert Wintour, conspirator (executed) (born 1565)
  • 31 January
    • Guy Fawkes
      Guy Fawkes
      Guy Fawkes , also known as Guido Fawkes, the name he adopted while fighting for the Spanish in the Low Countries, belonged to a group of provincial English Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605.Fawkes was born and educated in York...
      
      , conspirator (executed) (born 1570)
    • Ambrose Rokewood
      Ambrose Rokewood
      Sir Ambrose Rookwood was a member of the failed 1605 Gunpowder Plot, a conspiracy to replace the Protestant King James I with a Catholic monarch. Rookwood was born into a wealthy family of Catholic recusants, and educated by Jesuits at Flanders. His older brother became a Franciscan, and his two...
      
      , conspirator (executed) (born c. 1578)
    • Thomas Wintour
      Thomas Wintour
      Robert Wintour and Thomas Wintour , also spelt Winter, were members of the Gunpowder Plot, a failed conspiracy to assassinate King James I. Both were related to other conspirators, such as their cousin, Robert Catesby, and a half-brother, John Wintour, also joined them following the plot's failure...
      
      , conspirator (executed) (born 1571)
  • 3 April - Charles Blount, 1st Earl of Devon, politician (born 1563)
  • 3 May - Henry Garnet
    Henry Garnet
    Henry Garnet , sometimes Henry Garnett, was a Jesuit priest executed for his complicity in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. Born in Derbyshire, he was educated in Nottingham and later at Winchester College, before moving to London in 1571 to work for a publisher...
    
    , Jesuit (executed) (born 1555)
  • 20 November - (burial date) John Lyly
    John Lyly
    John Lyly was an English writer, best known for his books Euphues,The Anatomy of Wit and Euphues and His England. Lyly's linguistic style, originating in his first books, is known as Euphuism.-Biography:John Lyly was born in Kent, England, in 1553/1554...
    
    , writer (born 1553)
• 1607
  • May - Edward Dyer
    Edward Dyer
    Sir Edward Dyer was an English courtier and poet.-Life:The son of Sir Thomas Dyer, Kt., he was born at Sharpham Park, Glastonbury, Somerset. He was educated, according to Anthony Wood, either at Balliol College, Oxford or at Broadgates Hall , and left after taking a degree...
    
    , courtier and poet (born 1543)
  • 21 May - John Rainolds
    John Rainolds
    John Rainolds , English divine, was born about Michaelmas 1549 at Pinhoe, near Exeter.He was educated at Merton and Corpus Christi Colleges, Oxford, becoming a fellow of the latter in 1568. In 1572-73 he was appointed reader in Greek, and his lectures on Aristotle's Rhetoric laid the sure basis of...
    
    , scholar and Bible translator (born 1549)
  • 10 June - John Popham, Lord Chief Justice (born 1553)
  • 7 July - Penelope Blount, Countess of Devonshire
    Penelope Blount, Countess of Devonshire
    Penelope Rich, Lady Rich, later styled Penelope Blount, Countess of Devonshire was an English noblewoman...
    
     (born 1562
  • 22 August - Bartholomew Gosnold
    Bartholomew Gosnold
    Bartholomew Gosnold was an English lawyer, explorer, and privateer, instrumental in founding the Virginia Company of London, and Jamestown, Virginia, United States...
    
    , explorer and privateer (born 1572)
  • 20 December - Sir John Bourke
    Sir John Bourke of Brittas
    Sir John Bourke of Brittas , commonly called "Captain of Clanwilliam", was born about the middle of the 16th century. His father, Sir Richard Bourke, was brother of Sir William Bourke, 1st Baron of Castleconnell, and his mother was Honor, daughter of Conor O'Mulryan, Chief of Owney...
    
     (born 1550)
  • Henry Chettle
    Henry Chettle
    Henry Chettle was an English dramatist and miscellaneous writer of the Elizabethan era.The son of Robert Chettle, a London dyer, he was apprenticed in 1577 and became a member of the Stationer's Company in 1584, traveling to Cambridge on their behalf in 1588. His career as a printer and author is...
    
    , writer (born 1564)
• 1608
  • 13 February - Bess of Hardwick
    Bess of Hardwick
    Elizabeth Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury Elizabeth Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury Elizabeth Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury (c. 1521 – 13 February 1608, known as Bess of Hardwick, was the daughter of John Hardwick, of Derbyshire and Elizabeth Leeke, daughter of Thomas Leeke and Margaret Fox...
    
    , Countess of Shrewsbury (born 1527)
  • 26 February - John Still
    John Still
    John Still , bishop of Bath and Wells enjoyed considerable fame as a preacher and disputant. He was formerly reputed to be the author of the early English comedy drama Gammer Gurton's Needle .-Career:...
    
    , bishop (born c. 1543)
  • 19 April - Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset
    Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset
    Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset was an English statesman, poet, dramatist and Freemason. He was the son of Richard Sackville, a cousin to Anne Boleyn. He was a Member of Parliament and Lord High Treasurer.-Biography:...
    
    , statesman and poet (born 1536)
  • 19 October - Geoffrey Fenton
    Geoffrey Fenton
    Sir Geoffrey Fenton was an English writer, Privy Councillor, and Principal Secretary of State in Ireland.-Early literary years:...
    
    , writer and politician (born c. 1539)
  • December
    • John Dee
      John Dee (mathematician)
      John Dee was an English mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, occultist, navigator, imperialist and consultant to Queen Elizabeth I. He devoted much of his life to the study of alchemy, divination and Hermetic philosophy....
      
      , mathematician, astronomer, and geographer (born 1527)
    • William Davison, secretary to Queen Elizabeth I of England
      Elizabeth I of England
      Elizabeth I was queen regnant of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death. Sometimes called The Virgin Queen, Gloriana, or Good Queen Bess, Elizabeth was the fifth and last monarch of the Tudor dynasty...
      
       (born c. 1541)
  • Laurence Tomson
    Laurence Tomson
    Laurence Tomson revised both the text and the annotations of the New Testament of the Geneva Bible. His revised edition appeared in 1576. Tomson was a Calvinist, and his annotations reflect that system of theology....
    
    , Calvinist theologian (born 1539)
  • Edmund Whitelocke
    Edmund Whitelocke
    Edmund Whitelocke was an English soldier, royal courtier and suspected conspirator.-Life:He was born in the parish of St. Gabriel, Fenchurch Street, London, on 10 February 1565, the eldest son of Richard Whitelocke, merchant. The judge Sir James Whitelocke was a younger brother...
    
    , soldier and courtier (born 1565)
• 1609
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    William Warner (poet)
    William Warner was an English poet.-Life:William Warner was born in London about 1558. He was educated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford, but left the university without taking a degree. He practised in London as an attorney, and gained a great reputation among his contemporaries as a poet...
    
    , poet (born c. 1558)
  • Barnabe Barnes
    Barnabe Barnes
    Barnabe Barnes , was an English poet. He is known for his Petrarchan love sonnets and for his combative personality, involving feuds with other writers and culminating in an alleged attempted murder.-Early life:...
    
    , poet (born 1568)