Third abortive Jacobite rising
Third abortive Jacobite rising
First Masonic Lodge opens in London
Value of the golden guinea fixed at 21 shillings
First Masonic Lodge opens in London
Edmond Halley invents the diving bell
Climate: Thames frozen so solid that a spring tide lifted the ice bodily 13ft without interrupting the frost fair
The Septennial Act of Britain leads to greater electoral corruption - general elections now to be held once every 7 years instead of every 3 (until 1911)
The Septennial Act of Britain leads to greater electoral corruption -
Census of Acadia
Riot Act passed
Second Jacobite rebellion in Scotland, under the Old Pretender ('The Fifteen')
Riot Act passed
Scots support James Edward Stuart as the king of Great Britain.
Queen Anne Stuart dies - George I Hanover becomes king (1714-1727).
George I
Landholders forced to take the Oath of Allegiance and renounce Roman Catholicism
Schism Act, prevents Dissenters from being schoolmasters in England
Longitude Act: prize of ?20,000 offered to the inventor of a workable method of determining a ship's longitude (won by John Harrison in 1773 for his chronometer).
1st August - Queen Anne Stuart died - George I Hanover becomes king
King George I
Census of Acadia
By this year there are some 3,000 coffee houses in London
Treaty of Utrecht
Treaty of Utrecht concludes the Was of the Spanish Succession
Nova Scotia created
Treaty of Utrecht
British Fleet runs aground on Ile-aux-Oeufs PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Toleration Act passed - first relief to non-Anglicans
Last trial for witchcraft in England (Jane Wenham)
Imposition of Soap Tax (abolished 1853)
Imposition of Soap Tax (abolished 1835)
Thomas Newcomen patents the atmospheric steam engine
First race meeting at Ascot
Incorporation of South Sea Company, in London
Incorporation of South Sea Company, in London
Englishmen, John Shore invents the tuning fork
Tax on Apprentice Indentures introduced
Port-Royal falls to the British
Tax on Apprentice Indentures
Alexander Selkirk rescued from shipwreck on a desert island, inspiring the book Robinson Crusoe (published in 1719) by Daniel Defoe
Bad harvests throughout Europe - bread riots in Britain
First Copyright Act pass
Second Eddystone lighthouse completed
First Copyright Act passed
Bartolomeo Cristofori invents the piano
Earliest Artillery Muster Rolls
First Jacobite rising in Scotland
Queen Anne's war breaks out
First Jacobite rising in Scotland
Census of Acadia
English and Scottish Parliaments united by an Act of the English Parliament - The Kingdom of Great Britain established - largest free-trade area in Europe at the time
Union with Scotland - Scots agree to send 16 peers and 45 MPs to English Parliament in return for full trading privileges - Scottish Parliament meets for the last time in March
1st January - Union with Scotland - Scots agree to send 16 peers and 45 MPs to English Parliament in return for full trading pri
Census of Acadia
The Act of Union is formed between Scotland and England, creating Great Britain.
First evening newspaper The Evening Post' issued in London
Isaac Newton knighted (for his work at the Royal Mint)
First workable steam pumping engine devised by Thomas Newcomen (some say c1710 or 1711)
First workable steam pumping engine devised by Thomas Newman
Battle of Blenheim
Penal Code enacted - Catholics barred from voting, education and the military
Newfoundland census
Climate: Most violent storms of the millennium cause vast damage across southern England - about a third of Britain's merchant fleet lost, and Eddystone lighthouse destroyed on 27 November (Nov 24 - Dec 2)
British take Gibraltar
Eighth Acadian census
Repeal of Duties on entries in Parish Registers
Census of Acadia
Anne
First English daily newspaper The Daily Courant (till 1735)
Anne Stuart becomes Queen
8th March - Anne Stuart becomes Queen
Queen Anne
Queen Ann Period (Art & Antiques)
Queen Anne's War
War of Spanish Succession
After being convicted of piracy and murdering William Moore, Captain William Kidd hanged in London
Act of Settlement bars Catholics from the British throne
Founding of Petitcodiac
Act of Parliament bars Catholice from the British throne
Census of Acadia
Jethro Tull invents the seed drill
Population in England and Scotland approx 7.5 million
Census of Acadia
Eddystone Lighthouse (Henry Winstanley's) first lit; completed 10 days earlier
Most of the Palace of Whitehall in London destroyed by fire
Invention of steam engine by Capt Thomas Savery
Darien Expedition: a disastrous attempt to establish a Scots settlement in Panama
Duties (taxes) on entries in parish registers - repealed after five years
Invention of steam engine by Captain Thomas Savery
Census of Acadia
Englishmen, Thomas Savery invents a steam pump
Official opening of St Paul's Cathedral
Treaty of Ryswick
2nd December - Official opening of St Paul's Cathedral
William III
Act of Parliament establishes Workhouses
Freedom of Press in England granted
Bank of Scotland founded
Act of Parliament imposes a fine on all who fail to inform the parish minister of the birth of a child (repealed 1706)
Start of Dissenters' lists in parish registers - children born but not christened in the parish church - some were named 'Papist' and others 'Protestants'
Freedom of the Press
Census of Acadia
Bank of England founded by William Paterson (a Scot)
National Debt came into effect in England
Stamp Duties introduced into Britain from Holland
Mary II death leaves William III as sole ruler
Triennial Act, new Parliamentary elections every three years
Scotland: Poll Tax imposed on all over sixteen, except the destitute and insane (-1699)
National Deb came into effect in England
Scotland: Poll Tax imposed on all over sixteen, except the destitute and insane
Date traditionally ascribed to Dom Pierre P?rignon 's invention of Champagne
Census of Acadia
Newfoundland census
The massacre of Glencoe - Clan Campbell sides with King William and murders members of Clan McDonald
Land Tax introduced - originally designed as an annual tax on personal estate, public offices and land. For practical purposes, however, assessors tended to avoid assessing items of wealth other than landed property so that it became known as the Land Ta
French intention to invade England came to nothing
The Massacre of Glencoe
French intention to invade England came to naught
Earliest date in known German Lutheran registers
Newfoundland census
England passes Act of Grace, forgiving Roman Catholic followers of James II
William III and Mary II
The British capture Port-Royal
Great Synagogue founded
Port-Royal captured
The Presbyterian Church is permanently restored and becomes the Church of Scotland.
Bill of Rights passed by Parliament, ending King's divine right to raise taxes or wage war
Battle of Killiecrankie in Scotland - Jacobites defeated Government troops but at high cost
Toleration Act passed for Protestant non-conformists
Deposed James VII & II flees to Ireland - defeated at the Battle of the Boyne (1 Jul 1690)
William III and Mary II, daughter of James II, jointly take the throne (only William, however, has regal power)
Devonport naval dockyard established
King William III and Queen Mary II
Deposed James VII and II flees to Ireland
King William's War
French - Five Nations Indian war
Siege of Londonderry (began Dec 1688; ended 28 Jul 1689)
William of Orange lands at Torbay
The Glorious Revolution: James II abdicates
Edward Lloyd's Coffee House opens - later became Lloyd's of London
British Army raised to 40,000
Bill of Rights limits the powers of the monarchy over parliament
Hearth Tax abolished
Mutiny Act
February: Edward Lloyds Coffee House - later became Lloyd's of London
Newton published his Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica' - written in Latin
James II issues the Declaration of Indulgence, suspending laws against Catholics and non-conformists
St-Charles des Mines Church is built at Grand-Pré
Release of all prisoners held for their religious beliefs
Release of all prisoners held for their religious beliefs
Census of Acadia
James II
James the Second (1685-1689, died 1701) - Monmouth rebellion and battle of Sedgemoor - British Army raised to 20,000 men
Earl of Argyll's Invasion of Scotland
Judge Jeffreys and the Bloody Assizes - 320 executed, 800 transported
Earl of Argyll's invasion of Scotland
King James II
Presbyterian settlement in Stuart's Town in South Carolina
Ashmolean Museum opened at Oxford - first museum in Britain
Wild boar become extinct in Britain
6th June: Ashmolean Museum opened at Oxford - first museum on Britain
Founding of Grand-Pré
Pennsylvania founded by William Penn
Library of Advocates founded in Edinburgh - later National Library of Scotland
Halley observes the comet which bears his name
Pennsylvania founded by William Penn
Second Test Act (against non-conformists) passed by Westminster Parliament
Oil lighting first used in London streets
Second Test Act (against non-conformists) passed by Westminster Parliament
William Dockwra(y) begins his London Penny Post
Dodo becomes extinct in Mauritius through over-hunting
William Dockwra(y) begins his London Penny Post
Chinoiserie Period (Art and Antiques)
Habeas Corpus Act becomes law in England - (later repealed from time to time)
Tories first so named
27th May: Haveas Corpus Act became law in England
Denis Papin invents the pressure cooker
Extension of Test Act to peers
Extension of Test Act to peers
The first edition of the "Encyclopaedia Britiannica" published -
Census of Acadia
Lee's Collection of Names of Merchants in London' published
Lee's "Collection of Names of Merchants in London" published
Compton Census, named after its initiator Henry Compton, Bishop of London, was intended to discover the number of Anglican conformists, Roman Catholic recusants and Protestant dissenters in England and Wales from enquiries made in individual parishes
Robert Hooke invents the universal joint
Building of Royal Greenwich Observatory started
King Philip's War
John Flamsteed appointed first Astronomer Royal of England
Beginning of Whig party under Shaftsbury
Rebuilding of St Paul's started by Wren (completed 1710)
Beginning of Whig Party under Shaftsbury
Christian Huygens patents the pocket watch
Treaty of Westminster - Netherlands cedes New Netherlands (on the eastern coast of North America) to Britain
First Test Act deprives British Catholics and Non-conformists of Public Office
First Test Act deprives British Catholics and Non-conformists of Public Office
First European settlement in Great Lakes Region
Founding of Beaubassin
High Court of Justiciary established in Scotland
War with Holland (to 1674) - British Army increased to 10,000 men
High Court of Justiciary established in Scotland
Comte de Frontenac governs New France
Thomas Blood caught stealing the Crown Jewels
First Acadian Census
Census of Acadia
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz invents a calculating machine
King Charles II and King Louis XIV of France sign the Secret Treaty of Dover
Hudson's Bay Company formed
Treaty of Breda
Earliest Synagogue registers - Bevis Marks
Dom Pérignon invents Champagne
The first reference to a candy cane is made
Last entry in Pepys's diary
Earliest Lutheran registers survive from this year
British East India Company obtains control of Bombay
Newton constructs reflecting telescope
Isaac Newton invents a reflecting telescope
Treaty of Breda
Great Fire of London, after a drought beginning 27 June (2-6 Sep)
Use of semaphore signalling pioneered by Lord Worcester
Newton formulated Laws of Gravity
2nd to 6th September; Great Fire of London,
Considerable religious unrest on Scotland (The Covenanteers)
First New World Census
The ?London Gazette' first published - one of the official journals of record of the United Kingdom government and the oldest continuously published newspaper in the United Kingdom
Great Plague of London (July-October) kills over 60,000
Five-mile Act restricts non-conformist ministers in Britain
Great Plague of London
Nieuw Amsterdam becomes New York as 300 English soldiers under Col. Mathias Nicolls take the town from the Dutch under orders from Charles II. The town is renamed after the King's brother James, Duke of York
Oak Apple Day - the birthday of Charles II and the day when he entered London at the Restoration; commanded by Act of Parliament in 1664 to be observed as a day of thanksgiving. A special service (expunged in 1859) was inserted in the Book of Common Pray
Earliest Roman Cathilic registers
Great Québec earthquake
Québec becomes a crown colony (royal province) of France
James Gregory invents the first reflecting telescope
Act of Uniformity - Acceptance of Book of Common Prayer required - About 2,000 vicars and rectors driven from their parishes as nonconformists (Presbyterians and Independents) - Persecution of all non-conformists - Presbyterianism dis-established - E
'Hearth Tax' introduced - until 1689 (1690 in Scotland)
Poor Relief Act or Act of Settlement' - gave JPs the power to return any wandering poor to the parish of origin (repealed 1834)
Tea introduced to Britain
Hearth Tax
Oliver Cromwell formally 'executed', having been dead for over two years!
Restoration of Episcopacy in Scotland
Board of Trade founded in London
Hand-struck postage stamps first used
Corporation Act prevents non-Anglicans from holding municipal office
Persectution of Non-Conformists in England
First actress plays in London (Margaret Hughes as Desdemona)
Twelve men, including Christopher Wren, Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, and Sir Robert Moray decide to found what is later known as the Royal Society
Ten Regicides are executed at Charing Cross or Tyburn
Restoration of British monarchy (Charles II) - 'Oak Apple Day' - theatres reopened
Charles II
Commonwealth registers ended, Parish Registers resumed
Provincial Probate Courts re-established
Clarendon code restricts Puritans' religious freedom
Composition of light discovered by Newton
Honourable East India Company founded by British
1st January - Samuel Pepys starts his diary
Quaker-Scottish colony was established in East New Jersey
King Charles II
Restoration Period
Cuckoo clocks made in Furtwangen, Germany, in the Black Forest region
Samuel Pepys starts his diary
Date of first known bank cheque to be drawn
Start of national meteorological Temperature records in the UK
6th February - date of first known cheque to be drawn
Lake Superior explored
Death of Oliver Cromwell
Richard Cromwell, Lord Protector
Richard Cromwell (son of Oliver) Lord Protector (-1660)
Death of Oliver Cromwell
Richard Cromwell (son of Oliver) Lord Protector
Post Office established by Act of Parliament [others say 1660]
A few Jews permitted to settle in England
Post Office established by Act of Parliament (others say 1660)
Christian Huygens invents a pendulum clock
Fort Port-Royal is captured by the British
Fort Port-Royal captured by the British
Oliver Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland
Cromwell dissolves the Rump Parliament
Commonwealth registers start
Under the Act of Settlement Cromwell's opponents stripped of land
Provincial probate courts abolished - probates granted only in London
Provincial probate courts abolished - probates granted only in London
Commonwealther registers start
Battle of Worcester
The second English Civil War (1651-1652)
Scottish prisoners transported to the British settlements in America
The second English Civil War
Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector
Coffee brought to England about this time
George Fox founds Society of Friends (Quakers)
Otto von Guericke invents a air pump
Theatres banned by Cromwell
Christmas banned by Cromwell
Commonwealth declared
King Charles I executed
'Rump' Parliament votes to put Charles I on trial
Cromwell's Irish campaign starts
King Charles II proclaimed King of Scots and England in Scotland
30th June: King Charles I executed
Commonwealth period - Oliver Cromwell
Society of Friends (Quakers) founded by George Fox
First practical thermometers made
Earliest Baptist registers survive from this year
Royalists sign articles of surrender at Oxford
Charles I surrenders to the Scottish Army at Newark
20th June: Royalists sign articles of surrender at Oxford
Battle of Naseby: Parliament's New Model Army crushes the Royalist forces
Battle of Philiphaugh in Scotland
Scotland: Each county and burgh ordered to raise and maintain a number of foot soldiers, according to population, to serve as militia - population of Scotland estimated at 420,000
Plague made its last appearance in Scotland
Battle of Philipburgh in Scotland
Battle of Marston Moor, near York - Parliamentarian forces beat the Royalists
Battle of Cropredy Bridge - Royalists beat the Parliamentarian forces
Earlist Indepenent (Congregational) registers
Battle of Alton - victory for Parliamentarians - Sir Richard Bolle killed in St Lawrence's church
Solomn League and Covenrant signed in Scotland
Evangelista Torricelli invents the barometer
Abel Janszoon Tasman first European to set foot in New Zealand
Abel Janszoon Tasman discovers Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania)
Battle of Turnham Green - Royalist forces withdraw in face of the Parliamentarian army and fail to take London
Charles I raises his standard at Nottingham - First Civil War in England (to 1649)
The Civil War interrupted the keeping of parish registers
English theatres closed by Puritans (till 1660)
22nd August - Charles I raises his standard at Nottinngham -
Frenchmen, Blaise Pascal invents an adding machine
50,000 Irish killed in an uprising in Ulster
Charles I's policies cause insurrection in Ulster and Civil War in England
Charles I and the English Parliament acknowledge the Prebyterian Church in Scotland
Charles I policies cause insurrection in Ulster and Civil War in England -
Charles I forced to recall Parliament (the 'Long Parliament') due to Scottish invasion
Act of Toleration in England established religious toleration
Act of Toleration in England established religious tolerance
King Charles regarded protests against the prayerbook as treason - forced Scots to choose between their church and the King - a ?Covenant' swearing to resist these changes to the Death was signed in Greyfriars Church Edinburgh and was accepted by hun
Charles regarded protests against the prayer book as treason
Scottish Prayer Book published
Pequot War
Arrival of the St. Jehan in Port-Royal
PRE-DEPORTATION PERIOD
Hackney Carriages in use by now in London
Hackney Carriages in use by now in London
W. Gascoigne invents the micrometer
Letter Office of England & Scotland started
Flintlock small arms invented around this time (replaces matchlock)
Letter Office of England and Scotland started
Galileo summoned by Inquisition for publishing in favour of Copernican theory
Isaac de Razilly arrives at Le Heve
Isaac de Razilly sails from LaRochelle
Treaty of St Germain-en-Laye
Québec returned to France by the 'Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye'
Samuel de Champlain named the first Governor of New France
Renaissance Period - Art and Antiques
Baroque Period (Art and Antiques)
European diseases/epidemics kill indians
Parliament dissolved by King Charles I - did not meet for another 11 yea
Parliament desolved by King Charles I -
Québec captured by Britain
Giovanni Branca invents a steam turbine
Writs issued by Charles I that every county in England (not just seaport towns) pay ship tax by this date
Charles I
The Company of One Hundred Associates formed to colonize New France
Death of King James VI & I
The size of bricks standardised in England around this time
King Charles I
The size of bricks standardised in England around this time
Carolean Age
Frenchmen, Jean-Baptiste Denys invents a method for blood transfusion
Monopoly Act in England: patents protected
Edmund Gunter introduces the surveyor's chain (measurement of length)
Monopoly Act in England - patents protected
William Oughtred invents a slide ruler
First English newspaper appeared - Weekly News'
First Englaish Newspaper appears
Chimneys to be made of brick and to be four and a half feet above the roof
Chimneys to be made of brick and be four and half feet above roof
(Dec 16 old style): The Mayflower reaches America - founds Plymouth, New England (had initially set sail from Southampton on Aug 5)
Pilgrim Fathers land at Plymouth Rock
Manufacture of coke (the fuel, not the drink!) patented by Dud Dudley
The Mayflower reaches America
The earliest human-powered submarine invented
(Nov 24 old style): Colonists from Berkeley Parish in England disembark in Virginia and give thanks to God (considered by many to be the first Thanksgiving in the Americas)
Sir Walter Raleigh beheaded for allegedly conspiring against James I
Register of Sasines (Land Leases) established in Scotland -
Tuesday Apr 23 (Julian calendar): Death of Shakespeare
Death of Shakespeare (23rd April)
The Globe Theatre in London burns during a performance of Henry the Eighth (finally pulled down in 1644)
A copper farthing was produced, as a silver coin would be too small
James VI & I created the title of baronet
Authorised (King James) Version of Bible in Britain
Plantation of Ulster with English and Scottish colonists
James VI & I established the Episcopal Church in Scotland - Prebyterians persecuted and many of their records lost
James VI established the Episcopal Church in Scotland -
Henry Hudson explorations
First use of telescope by Galileo - he observed the moons of Jupiter two years later in Jan 1610
Québec founded
Hans Lippershey invents the first refracting telescope
Jamestown, Virginia settled - to become the first permanent British colony in North America
Jamestown is established
Flight of the Earls - leading Ulster families go into exile
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)
Guy Fawkes and co-conspirators executed
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
Episcopacy established in Scotland (against wishes of the Scots)
12th April Adoption of Union Jack as the flag of "Great Britain"
Gunpowder plot at Westminster (Guy Fawkes, etc)
First Acadian settlement in Port-Royal
Gunpowder plot at Westminster (Guy Fawkes)
Settlement of New France
James I
Shakespeare: Othello' first presented
EXPLORATION PERIOD
First Acadian settlement on Saint-Croix Island
Settlement of New France
Coronation - James VI of Scotland is crowned first king of Great Britain
Death of Elizabeth I: union of Scottish and English crowns - under King James VI of Scots and I of England (d. 1625)
King James I
24th March - Death of Queen Elizabeth I
The crowns of England and Scotland unite.
Bodleian Library at Oxford University opened to the public
Dutch East India Company founded
Great English Poor Law Act passed
First use of fruit juice as a preventative for scurvy by James Lancaster
Great English Poor Law passed
British East India Company founded
Memoirs of Officers of the Royal Navy begin
The calendar changes from the Julian Calendar to the Gregorian Calendar.
Scotland adopts New Year beginning 1st January (previously 25th March)
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
Bishops transcript of English and Welsh parish registers start [some say 1597]
Poor Law Act for erection of parish workhouses for the Poor - Poor Rate collection allowed
Poor Law Act for erection of parish workhouses for the Poor -
Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, leads Irish rebellion against English rule (-1603)
British statute mile established by law
British statute mile established by law
Galileo invents a water thermometer
A Congregational (or Independent) Church formed in London
Scotland: Presbyterian Church formally established - all ministers equal - no bishops - secular commissaries appointed by the Crown
A congregational (or Independant) Church formed in London.
The Presbyterian Church is formally established.
Trinity College, Dublin, founded
Dutchmen, Zacharias Janssen invents the compound microscope
Englishmen, William Lee invents the knitting machine
Defeat of Spanish Armada off Gravelines
Spanish Armada sighted off the Lizard (had set sail from Lisbon in late May)
Invention of shorthand by Dr Timothy Bright
29th July Defeat of the Spanish Armada
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)
Sir Francis Drake sinks the Spanish fleet in Cadiz harbour
Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, at Fotheringay Castle, near Peterborough
Introduction of potatoes to England
Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, by English at Fotheringay Castle near Peterborough
Foundation of Oxford University Press
Foundation of Oxford University Press
Sir Walter Raleigh establishes first English colony in the New World, on Roanoke Island, Virginia (now in North Carolina) - the so-called 'Lost Colony'
Sir Humphrey Gilbert attempts to establish English authority at St John's, Newfoundland
University of Edinburgh founded
Foundation of Cambridge University Press by Thomas Thomas
Foundation of Cambridge University Press by Thomas Thomas
Gregorian calendar introduced in some couontires:
Francis Drake knighted by Elizabeth I aboard the Golden Hind after circumnavigating the world
English Parliament outlaws Roman Catholicism
English Levant Company founded
Dover Straits earthquake, largest in the recorded history of England, mentioned by Shakespeare - dozens of ships sunk and a tsunami hit Calais
Congregational movement founded by Robert Browne about this time
Colonisation of Ireland
Colonisation of Ireland
Act of Uniformity in matters of religion enforced
Act of Uniformity in matters of religion enforced
Earliest Quaker registers begin
James Burbage opens first theatre in London
Colonial State Papers published
Opening of the Royal Exchange in London, founded by Sir Thomas Gresham - this building destroyed in Great Fire of London 1666
Presbyterianism introduced into England by Thomas Cartwright
Repeal of Act prohibiting lending of money on interest - gradual change from 'subsistence economy' to 'cash economy' resulted
Beginning of penal legislation against Catholics in England
Beginning of penal legislation against Catholics in England
Presbyterianism introduced into England by Thomas Cartwright
Pope Pius V issued the papal bull 'Regnans in Excelsis' to excommunicate Elizabeth I and her followers in the Church of England
Elizabeth I approved Sunday sports
Gerard Mercator invents Mercator map projection
Battle of Langside - Mary's flight to England and her imprisonment by Queen Elizabeth I
Battle of Langside
Bottled beer invented in London
Mary Queen of Scots deposed and replaced by her 1 year old son James VI
Marriage of Mary Queen of Scots to James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell
Murder of Darnley outside Holyrood House in an explosion
Murder of Darnley outside Holyrood House in an explosion
Murder of David Riccio (or Rizzio) in Holyrood House
Murder of Riccio in Holyrood House
Marriage of Mary, Queen of Scots to Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, her first cousin
Marriage of Mary, Queen of Scots to Darley
Shakespeare baptised - he is said to have been born on Apr 23, St George's Day; he certainly died on Apr 23, 1616
The English surrender Le Havre to the French after a siege
Papal recusants heavily fined for non-attendance at Church
Earliest English slave-trading expedition, under John Hawkins - between Guinea and the West Indies
African slave trade starts
Elizabeth I
Reign of Elizabeth I - Policy of Plantation begins
Queen Elizabeth I
Regular series of wills starts in Prerogative Court of Canterbury
Abt 1586 - Yes, date unknown