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25 December – Orlando Gibbons, composer (died 1625) Approximate date John Beaumont, poet (died 1627) Aurelian Townshend, poet (died 1643) 1584 29 March – Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, parliamentary general (died 1648) 19 April – John Hales, theologian (died 1656) 20 May – John Pym, parliamentarian (died 1643)
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.
In the summer of 1608, Smith sent a letter about this information, along with the map, back to England. The original map is now lost, but a copy was obtained by Pedro de Zúñiga, the Spanish ambassador to England, who passed it on to Philip III of Spain. The copy, now commonly referred to as the "Zúñiga Map", was rediscovered in 1890. [132]
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
In 1580 Parry again returned to England. in November, after renewed proceedings by his creditors, he made a personal assault on Hugh Hare, one of them, in the Inner Temple. Parry was convicted and sentenced to death. He received a pardon from the Queen. He found sureties for his debts, one of whom was Sir John Conway, a connection of his mother ...
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.