1550s in England information

Events from the 1550s in England. This decade marks the beginning of the Elizabethan era. Monarch – Edward VI (until 6 July 1553), Jane (disputed, 6 July...

The 1550s decade ran from January 1, 1550, to December 31, 1559. January 6 – Spanish Captain Hernando de Santana founds the city of Valledupar, in modern-day...

its immediate environs, surveyed between 1553 and 1559, which survives only in part. It is the earliest true map of London (as opposed to panoramic views...

from the 1560s in England. Monarch – Elizabeth I 1560 27 February – Treaty of Berwick: Terms agreed with the Lords of the Congregation in the Kingdom of...

Events from the 1530s in England. Monarch – Henry VIII 1530 26 January – Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, becomes Keeper of the Privy Seal. January...

1570s in England. Monarch – Elizabeth I 1570 25 February – Pope Pius V excommunicates Queen Elizabeth I of England with the papal bull Regnans in Excelsis...

than in the Italian Renaissance. The English period began far later than the Italian, which was moving into Mannerism and the Baroque by the 1550s or earlier...

Events from the 1540s in England. Monarch – Henry VIII (until 28 January 1547), then Edward VI Regent – Catherine, Queen Consort (starting 15 July, until...

of Wiltshire 1529-?: Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk Periods in 1540s and 1550s: Nicholas Wotton 1559–1564: Nicholas Throckmorton 1564–1566: Thomas...

named after Robert Browne, who was born at Tolethorpe Hall in Rutland, England, in the 1550s. The terms Brownists or Separatists were used to describe...

to the popular tune "Gentle and Courteous", is thought to date from the 1550s, and to be an indirect attack on the half-Spanish queen Mary Tudor and her...

Desiderius Erasmus writes The Praise of Folly while staying with Thomas More in England. 1510 April 10 – Henry Cornelius Agrippa pens the dedication of De occulta...

was canonised in 1970, as one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales. Margaret Ward was born in Congleton, Cheshire, in Northwest England, around 1550...

1538 and completed in the late 1550s, with a vernacular stable court (1675), situated in Barrington, near Ilminster, Somerset, England. The house was owned...

common law offence. In the 1550s English gentlemen opposed to the reign of Phillip and Mary took refuge in France and were active in the English Channel...

Weavers' Company (1550s), meets Weavers' Hall Broad Weavers and Clothiers (1665) Company and Fellowship of Cappers and Feltmakers (1494); meets in Cappers' Room...

in 1555 to settle in Antwerp, where he worked mainly as a prolific designer of prints for the leading publisher of the day. At the end of the 1550s,...

Lujo Saraca, Rector (1592) Andro Luccari, Rector (1600) England and Ireland Kingdom of England and Lordship/ Kingdom of Ireland (complete list) – Henry...

a humanist Catholic, little interested in the persecution that had defined the administration in the 1550s. In conjunction with Charles Cardinal of Lorraine...

developed a commercial sense of "business association" by 1550s, the word having been used in reference to trade guilds from late 14c.' Compare: "co"....