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King James I of England/VI of Scotland, the first monarch to rule the Kingdoms of England and Scotland at the same time 1603 24 March – Queen Elizabeth I dies at Richmond Palace aged 69, after 45 years on the throne, and is succeeded by her first cousin twice removed King James VI of Scotland (where he has ruled since 1567), hence the Union ...
Early modern Britain is the history of the island of Great Britain roughly corresponding to the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. Major historical events in early modern British history include numerous wars, especially with France, along with the English Renaissance, the English Reformation and Scottish Reformation, the English Civil War, the Restoration of Charles II, the Glorious Revolution ...
The Iberian Union (1580–1640), a 60-year dynastic union between Portugal and Spain, interrupted the alliance.The struggle of Elizabeth I of England against Philip II of Spain in the sixteenth century meant that Portugal and England were on opposite sides of the Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604) and the Dutch–Portuguese War.
Spain and Portugal colonized large parts of Central and South America, followed by France and England in Northern America and the Lesser Antilles. The Portuguese became the masters of trade between Brazil , the coasts of Africa, and their possessions in the Indies , whereas the Spanish came to dominate the Greater Antilles , Mexico , Peru , and ...
In 1777, Spain and Portugal signed the Treaty of San Ildefonso, which mainly resolved a number of border disputes between their South American colonies. During the Age of Enlightenment, Portugal was considered one of Europe's unenlightened backwaters; it was a country of three million with 200,000 people in 538 monasteries in 1750. Melo seems ...
The Portuguese Renaissance refers to the cultural and artistic movement in Portugal during the 15th and 16th centuries. Though the movement coincided with the Spanish and Italian Renaissances, the Portuguese Renaissance was largely separate from other European Renaissances and instead was extremely important in opening Europe to the unknown and bringing a more worldly view to those European ...
Sir Nicholas Bacon, 1st Baronet, of Redgrave in Suffolk becomes the premier baronet of England. 22 June – the crew of Henry Hudson's ship Discovery mutiny leaving him adrift in Hudson Bay. [5] 1 November – at Whitehall Palace in London, William Shakespeare's romantic comedy and last solo play The Tempest is performed, perhaps for the first ...
The transformation of England: essays in the economic and social history of England in the eighteenth century (Taylor & Francis, 1979), ISBN 0-416-73120-1; Mitchell, Sally.. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia (Garland, 1990) Mitchell, Sally.. Daily Life in Victorian England (2nd ed. ABC-CLIO, 2008) Mowat, Charles Loch.