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Pages in category "16th-century English nobility" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 489 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Pinnace, name unknown, c1592. Armed with set of 12 matched cannon, unlike the mixed cannon usually used at the time. Site discovered and several cannon recovered in 2009 [3] Flight (built 1592) – not listed after 1592; Madre de Dios (ex-Portuguese carrack Madre de Dios, captured 1592) – was not added to the English Navy
George Henry Fitzroy in his robes as Duke of Grafton Peerages and baronetcies of Britain and Ireland Extant All Dukes Dukedoms Marquesses Marquessates Earls Earldoms Viscounts Viscountcies Barons Baronies Baronets Baronetcies This article lists all dukedoms, extant, extinct, dormant, abeyant, or forfeit, in the peerages of England, Scotland, Great Britain, Ireland and the United Kingdom ...
1st creation of a barony of that name Baron Ferrers of Chartley: 1299: Ferrers, Devereux, Shirley, Compton, Townshend: abeyant 1855: Viscount Hereford 1550-1572 Earl of Essex 1572-1601, 1604-1646 forfeit 1601-1604 abeyant 1646-1677 Earl Ferrers 1711-1717 abeyant 1741-1749 Earl of Leicester 1784-1807 Marquess Townshend 1811-1855 Baron Percy ...
This is a list of ships of the line of the Royal Navy of England, and later (from 1707) of Great Britain, and the United Kingdom.The list starts from 1660, the year in which the Royal Navy came into being after the restoration of the monarchy under Charles II, up until the emergence of the battleship around 1880, as defined by the Admiralty.
1600: Died James Drummond, 4th Lord Drummond: 1600: 1611: Created Earl of Perth, see above Lord Hay of Yester (1488) James Hay, 7th Lord Hay of Yester: 1591: 1609: Died John Hay, 8th Lord Hay of Yester: 1609: 1653: Lord Sempill (1489) Robert Sempill, 4th Lord Sempill: 1576: 1611: Lord Herries of Terregles (1490) William Maxwell, 5th Lord ...
Sir Francis Drake, English, c. 1540–1596; Sir George Somers, English 1554–1610; Captain Christopher Newport, English, c. 1561–1617; Magnus Heinason, Faroese, c. 1568–1578 privateer in Dutch service under the Dutch revolt and 1580s, and privateer and merchant in Danish service on the Faroe Islands c. 1578–1589; Piet Hein, Dutch, 1577 ...
26 July – English scientist Thomas Harriot becomes the first to draw an astronomical object after viewing it through a telescope: he draws a map of the Moon, preceding Galileo by several months. [36] [37] 28 August – English explorer Henry Hudson sailing the Halve Maen in the service of the Dutch East India Company finds Delaware Bay. [1] [38]