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Events relating to england
England's queen Elizabeth sends 6000 troops to support the Dutch rebels against Spain
Catholics are now the martyrs in England, their numbers almost matching the Protestant martyrs of the previous reign
The English artist John White paints the everyday life of the Secotan Indians of America
Anthony Babington is involved in a plot to assassinate Elizabeth and place Mary Queen of Scots on the English throne
Mary Queen of Scots, implicated in the Babington plot, is beheaded in Fotheringay castle
Marlowe's first play, Tamburlaine the Great, introduces the swaggering blank verse of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama
A new group of English settlers arrives at Roanoke Island and makes a second attempt at a settlement
Francis Drake sails into a crowded Cadiz harbour and destroys some thirty Spanish ships
Nicholas Hilliard paints the delightful miniature known simply as Young Man among Roses
The more nimble English fleet destroys the galleons of the Spanish Armada, introducing a new kind of naval warfare
The tactics used against the Armada reveal that the sailing ships themselves have become fighting machines, as men-of-war
An English clergyman, William Lee, develops the world's first industrial machinery, to knit stockings
English poet Edmund Spenser celebrates the Protestant Elizabeth I as The Faerie Queene
After tentative beginnings in the three parts of Henry VI, Shakespeare achieves his first masterpiece on stage with Richard III
A flush toilet is illustrated in an English pamphlet, The Metamorphosis of Ajax by John Harrington
A manuscript, the Guildford Book of Court, uses the word 'creckett' for a game played in a Guildford school
The Globe, where many of Shakespeare's plays are first performed, is built on Bankside in London
William Gilbert, physician to Queen Elizabeth, concludes that the earth is a magnet and coins the term 'magnetic pole'
Britain's East India Company is established when Elizabeth I grants a charter to a 'Company of Merchants trading into the East Indies'
Electricity is given its name (in the Latin phrase vis electrica) by the English physician, William Gilbert
Shakespeare's central character in Hamlet expresses both the ideals of the Renaissance and the disillusion of a less confident age
James VI of Scotland inherits peacefully the crown of his English cousin Elizabeth, and becomes James I of England
The accession of James I and VI to the throne of England brings the union of the crowns of England and Scotland
The British king James I launches a blistering attack on the smoking of tobacco, which he considers a loathsome custom
James I commissions the Authorized version of the Bible, which is completed by forty-seven scholars in seven years
