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English people of the Rough Wooing (1 C, 33 P) Pages in category "16th-century English people" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 498 total.
Early Anglo-Saxon London belonged to a people known as the Middle ... Foreigners are estimated to have made up 4,000 of the 100,000 residents of London by 1600, many ...
William Shakespeare's plays Henry IV, Part 2, Henry V, The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Much Ado About Nothing are published in London. [1] William Gilbert publishes De Magnete in London, discussing Earth's magnetic field, one of the first important scientific works to be published in England. Caister Castle falls into ruin ...
The Tudor period in London started with the beginning of the reign of Henry VII in 1485 and ended in 1603 with the death of Elizabeth I.During this period, the population of the city grew enormously, from about 50,000 at the end of the 15th century [1] to an estimated 200,000 by 1603, over 13 times that of the next-largest city in England, Norwich. [2]
On 4 May [O.S. 14 May] 1607, 105 to 108 English men and boys (surviving the voyage from England) established the Jamestown Settlement for the Virginia Company of London, on a slender peninsula on the bank of the James River. It became the first long-term English settlement in North America. [1] [2]
Giles Gilbert Scott (1880–1960) (Waterloo Bridge, also supervised rebuilding of House of Commons, London) Edmund Sharpe (1809–1877) John William Simpson (1858–1933) George Edmund Street (1824–1881) John Vanbrugh (1664–1726), Baroque architect (Blenheim Palace) Derek Walker (1929–2015) Alfred Waterhouse (1830–1905) (Natural History ...
The era is most famous for its theatre, as William Shakespeare and many others composed plays that broke free of England's past style of theatre. It was an age of exploration and expansion abroad, while back at home, the Protestant Reformation became more acceptable to the people, most certainly after the Spanish Armada was repelled.
The Stuart period in London began with the reign of James VI and I in 1603 and ended with the death of Queen Anne in 1714. London grew massively in population during this period, from about 200,000 in 1600 to over 575,000 by 1700, and in physical size, sprawling outside its city walls to encompass previously outlying districts such as Shoreditch, Clerkenwell, and Westminster.