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In November 2011, researchers at the First Colony Foundation noticed two corrective patches on White's 1585 map La Virginea Pars. At their request, the British Museum examined the original map with a light table. One of the patches, at the confluence of the Roanoke and Chowan rivers, was found to cover a symbol representing a fort at the head ...
William Warner first publishes his long historical poem Albion's England. [20] Oxford University Press is recognised by decree of the Star Chamber. [21] From about this date an informal College or Society of Antiquaries begins to meet. [22] 1587. 8 February – Mary, Queen of Scots, is beheaded at Fotheringay Castle. [5]
1585 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1585th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 585th year of the 2nd millennium, the 85th year of the 16th century, and the 6th year of the 1580s decade. As of the start of 1585, the ...
The Black Death arrived in England. 1356: 19 September: Battle of Poitiers: Second of the three major battles of the Hundred Years' War took place near Poitiers, France. 1367 6 January Richard II, the future king of England (r. 1377-1399), is born to parents Edward the Black Prince and Joan of Kent. 1367 April
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
12 October – Thomas Dudley, Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony (died 1652) William Ames, Protestant philosopher (died 1633) Possible date – John Carver, first governor of Plymouth Colony (died 1621) 1577 8 February – Robert Burton, scholar (died 1640) 9 July – Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, governor of Virginia (died 1618) 11 ...
The English Armada (Spanish: Invencible Inglesa, lit. 'Invincible English'), also known as the Counter Armada or the Drake–Norris Expedition, was an attack fleet sent against Spain by Queen Elizabeth I of England that sailed on 28 April 1589 during the undeclared Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604) and the Eighty Years' War.
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.