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  2. Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604) - Wikipedia

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    The Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604) was an intermittent conflict between the Habsburg Kingdom of Spain and the Kingdom of England that was never formally declared. [4] It began with England's military expedition in 1585 to what was then the Spanish Netherlands under the command of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, in support of the Dutch rebellion against Spanish Habsburg rule.

  3. 1580s in England - Wikipedia

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    21 December (baptism) – Thomas Weston, merchant adventurer (died c. 1647) Francis Beaumont, dramatist (died 1616) Approximate date William Baffin, explorer (died 1622) Mary Frith, cutpurse (died 1659) Myles Standish, military officer and colonist (died 1656) 1585 23 January – Mary Ward, nun (died 1645)

  4. Roanoke Colony - Wikipedia

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    The colony was founded in 1585, but when it was visited by a ship in 1590, the colonists had inexplicably disappeared. It has come to be known as the Lost Colony, and the fate of the 112 to 121 colonists remains unknown. Roanoke Colony was founded by the governor Ralph Lane in 1585 on Roanoke Island in present-day Dare County, North Carolina. [1]

  5. William Parry (spy) - Wikipedia

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    William Parry (or Parrie) (died 2 March 1585) was a Welsh courtier and spy. ... In 1580 Parry again returned to England. in November, ...

  6. Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester - Wikipedia

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    Geoffrey Elton, in his widely read England under the Tudors (1955), saw Dudley as "a handsome, vigorous man with very little sense." [267] Since the 1950s, academic assessment of the Earl of Leicester has undergone considerable changes. [268] Leicester's importance in literary patronage was established by Eleanor Rosenberg in 1955.

  7. Henry Percy, 8th Earl of Northumberland - Wikipedia

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    In December 1584 Northumberland was sent to the Tower for a third time. He protested his innocence, and courted inquiry. Six months later, on 21 June 1585, he was found dead in his bed in his cell, having been shot through the heart. A jury was at once summoned, and returned a verdict of suicide.

  8. Spanish Armada - Wikipedia

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    The Spanish Armada (often known as Invincible Armada, or the Enterprise of England, Spanish: Grande y Felicísima Armada, lit. 'Great and Most Fortunate Navy') was a Spanish fleet that sailed from Lisbon in late May 1588, commanded by Alonso de Guzmán, Duke of Medina Sidonia, an aristocrat without previous naval experience appointed by Philip II of Spain.

  9. 1500s in England - Wikipedia

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    Philip Hoby, politician (died 1558) Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton, politician (died 1550) Thomas Tallis, composer (died 1585) Christopher Tye, composer and organist (died 1572) 1506 Elizabeth Barton, nun (died 1534) Margaret Lee, confidante of Queen Anne Boleyn (died 1543) William Paget, 1st Baron Paget, statesman (died 1563) 1507