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Date |
Event(s) |
| 1 | 1570 | - 25 Feb 1570: Pope Pius V issued the papal bull 'Regnans in Excelsis' to excommunicate
Elizabeth I and her followers in the Church of England
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| 2 | 1571 | - 1571: Beginning of penal legislation against Catholics in England
- 1571: Presbyterianism introduced into England by Thomas Cartwright
- 1571: Repeal of Act prohibiting lending of money on interest gradual change from
'subsistence economy' to 'cash economy' resulted
- 23 Jan 1571: Opening of the Royal Exchange in London, founded by Sir Thomas Gresham
this building destroyed in Great Fire of London 1666
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| 3 | 1577 | - 1577: James Burbage opens first theatre in London
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| 4 | 1579 | - 1579: Act of Uniformity in matters of religion enforced
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| 5 | 1580 | - 1580: Colonisation of Ireland
- 1580: Congregational movement founded by Robert Browne about this time
- 6 Apr 1580: Dover Straits earthquake, largest in the recorded history of England, mentioned
by Shakespeare dozens of ships sunk and a tsunami hit Calais
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| 6 | 1581 | - 1581: English Levant Company founded
- 16 Jan 1581: English Parliament outlaws Roman Catholicism
- 4 Apr 1581: Francis Drake knighted by Elizabeth I aboard the Golden Hind after
circumnavigating the world
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| 7 | 1583 | - 1583: Foundation of Cambridge University Press by Thomas Thomas
- 1583: University of Edinburgh founded
- Aug 1583: Sir Humphrey Gilbert attempts to establish English authority at St John's,
Newfoundland
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| 8 | 1584 | - 4 Jun 1584: Sir Walter Raleigh establishes first English colony in the New World, on
Roanoke Island, Virginia (now in North Carolina) the so-called 'Lost Colony'
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| 9 | 1585 | - 1585: Foundation of Oxford University Press
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| 10 | 1587 | - 1587: Introduction of potatoes to England
- 8 Feb 1587: Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, at Fotheringay Castle, near Peterborough
- 19 Apr 1587: Sir Francis Drake sinks the Spanish fleet in Cadiz harbour
- 11 Aug 1587: Raleigh's second expedition to New World lands in North Carolina first child
born in the New World of English parents was Virginia Dare (Aug 18)
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| 11 | 1588 | - 1588: Invention of shorthand by Dr Timothy Bright
- 19 Jul 1588: Spanish Armada sighted off the Lizard (had set sail from Lisbon in late May)
- 29 Jul 1588: Defeat of Spanish Armada off Gravelines
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| 12 | 1591 | - 1591: Trinity College, Dublin, founded
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| 13 | 1592 | - 1592: A Congregational (or Independent) Church formed in London
- 1592: Scotland: Presbyterian Church formally established all ministers equal no bishops
secular commissaries appointed by the Crown
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| 14 | 1593 | - 1593: British statute mile established by law
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| 15 | 1594 | - 1594: Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, leads Irish rebellion against English rule (-1603)
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| 16 | 1597 | - 1597: Poor Law Act for erection of parish workhouses for the Poor Poor Rate collection
allowed
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| 17 | 1598 | - 1598: Bishop's transcripts of English and Welsh parish registers start parish records were to
be kept in 'great decent books of parchment' and copies or 'Bishop's Transcripts' of new entries
were to be sent each month to the diocesan centre
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| 18 | 1600 | - 1 Jan 1600: Scotland adopts New Year beginning 1st January (previously 25th March)
- 31 Dec 1600: British East India Company founded
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| 19 | 1601 | - 1601: First use of fruit juice as a preventative for scurvy by James Lancaster
- 1601: Great English Poor Law Act passed
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| 20 | 1602 | - 20 Mar 1602: Dutch East India Company founded
- 8 Nov 1602: Bodleian Library at Oxford University opened to the public
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| 21 | 1603 | - 24 Mar 1603: Death of Elizabeth I: union of Scottish and English crowns under King James
VI of Scots and I of England (d. 1625)
- 25 Jul 1603: Coronation James VI of Scotland is crowned first king of Great Britain
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| 22 | 1604 | - 1 Nov 1604: Shakespeare: "Othello" first presented
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| 23 | 1605 | - 5 Nov 1605: Gunpowder plot at Westminster (Guy Fawkes, etc)
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| 24 | 1606 | - 1606: Episcopacy established in Scotland (against wishes of the Scots)
- 1606: The London Company chartered to colonise Virginia: the Susan Constant, Godspeed,
and Discovery leave England on 19th De c taking 144 days to reach America
- 31 Jan 1606: Guy Fawkes and co-conspirators executed
- 12 Mar 1606: Adoption of Union Flag as the flag of "Great Britain" (the term Union Jack is
used officially only when the Union Flag is flown from the Jack Mast of a Royal Naval vessel)
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| 25 | 1607 | - 14 May 1607: Jamestown, Virginia settled to become the first permanent British colony in
North America
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| 26 | 1608 | - 1608: First use of telescope by Galileo he observed the moons of Jupiter two years later in
Jan 1610
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| 27 | 1610 | - 1610: James VI & I established the Episcopal Church in Scotland Prebyterians persecuted
and many of their records lost
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| 28 | 1611 | - 1611: Authorised (King James) Version of Bible in Britain
- 22 May 1611: James VI & I created the title of baronet
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| 29 | 1613 | - 1613: A copper farthing was produced, as a silver coin would be too small
- 29 Jun 1613: The Globe Theatre in London burns during a performance of Henry the Eighth
(finally pulled down in 1644)
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| 30 | 1616 | - 23 Apr 1616: Tuesday Apr 23 (Julian calendar): Death of Shakespeare
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1570 - 1617 (47 years)
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