1570s in England

• Monarch – Elizabeth I ==Events==

• 1570 • 25 February – Pope Pius V excommunicates Queen Elizabeth I of England with the papal bull Regnans in Excelsis which is affixed to the door of Old St Paul's Cathedral in London on 24 May. • Florentine banker Roberto di Ridolfi devises the Ridolfi plot to assassinate Elizabeth and replace her with the Catholic Mary, Queen of Scots. • Whitechapel Bell Foundry known to be in existence in London. By 2017, when it closes its premises in Whitechapel, it will be the oldest manufacturing company in Great Britain. • The home and library of John Dee at Mortlake begin to serve as an informal prototype English academy for gentlemen with scientific interests. • Approximate date – Thomas Tallis composes his 40-part motet Spem in alium. • 1571 • 23 January – the Royal Exchange officially opened by Queen Elizabeth. • April – Treason Act forbids criticism of the monarchy. • Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Horncastle, is founded in Lincolnshire. • 27 June – Establishment of Jesus College "within the City and University of Oxford of Queen Elizabeth's foundation" by Welsh cleric and lawyer Hugh Price. • 25 July – The Free Grammar School of Queen Elizabeth of the Parishioners of the Parish of Saint Olave in the County of Surrey is established in Tooley Street, London. • 29 August – Ridolfi plot discovered. • Burford School is established in Oxfordshire. • 1572 • 13 February – Harrow School is founded by local landowner John Lyon under royal charter. • May – Hexhamshire is annexed to Northumberland. • 2 June – Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, is executed for treason for his part in the Ridolfi plot to restore Catholicism in England. • 11 July – Humphrey Gilbert leads 1500 English volunteers on an expedition to assist the Dutch Sea Beggars in their struggle against Spanish Habsburg rule. • Vagabonds Act, part of the Tudor Poor Laws, prescribes punishment for rogues. This includes actors' companies lacking formal patronage. • Publication of a revised version of the ''Bishops' Bible''. • 1573 • 24 March – Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School for Boys established in Barnet at the petition of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester. • 17 April – English troops capture Edinburgh Castle. • Construction of Longleat House completed. • 29 November – Catholic seminary priest Cuthbert Mayne is hanged, drawn and quartered at Launceston, Cornwall, for treason, first of the 158 Douai Martyrs. • 19 November – Humphrey Gilbert and Walter Raleigh set out from Plymouth leading an expedition to establish a colony in North America; forced to turn back six months later. • December – Publication of John Lyly's didactic prose romance Euphues: the Anatomy of Wyt, originating the ornate prose style known as Euphuism. • 1579 • 23 April – The English College, Rome, is established for the training of Roman Catholic priests to serve in England. • 17 June – Drake claims New Albion on the Pacific coast of North America for England. • June – Humphrey Gilbert sails in an unsuccessful attempt to intercept Spanish forces sailing to support the Second Desmond Rebellion in Ireland. • 17 August – Eastland Company chartered to trade with Scandinavia and the Baltic Sea states. • Publication of Edmund Spenser's poetry The Shepheardes Calender, anonymously. ==Births==

• 1570 • 22 January – Robert Bruce Cotton, politician (died 1631) • 13 April – Guy Fawkes, Gunpowder Plot conspirator (hanged 1606) • 28 November – James Whitelocke, judge (died 1632) • John Cooper, composer and lutenist (died 1626) • John Farmer, composer (died 1601) • Simon Grahame, Scottish-born adventurer (died 1614) • 1571 • ? March – Barnabe Barnes, poet (died 1609) • Henry Ainsworth, Nonconformist clergyman and scholar (died 1622) • William Bedell, Anglican churchman (died 1642) • Charles Butler, beekeeper and philologist (died 1647) • Bartholomew Gosnold, lawyer and explorer (died 1607) • Thomas Storer, poet (died 1604) • Thomas Wintour, Gunpowder Plot conspirator (hanged 1606) • 1572 • 22 January – John Donne, writer and prelate (died 1631) • c. 3 March – Robert Catesby, leader of the Gunpowder Plot (killed 1605) • 11 June – Ben Jonson, dramatist (died 1637) • John Floyd, Jesuit (died 1649) • James Mabbe, scholar and poet (died 1642) • 1573 • 15 July – Inigo Jones, architect (died 1652) • 7 October – William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1645) • Richard Johnson, romance writer (died 1659) • John Kendrick, merchant (died 1624) • 1574 • 7 March (bapt.) – John Wilbye, composer (died 1638) • June – Richard Barnfield, poet (died 1627) • 1 July – Joseph Hall, bishop and satirist (died 1656) • 7 August – Robert Dudley, styled Earl of Warwick, explorer and geographer (died 1649) • 4 September – Thomas Gataker, clergyman and theologian (died 1654) • 1575 • 5 March – William Oughtred, mathematician (died 1660) • 14 August – Robert Hayman, poet (died 1629) • Edmund Bolton, historian and poet (died 1633) • Lionel Cranfield, 1st Earl of Middlesex, successful London merchant (died 1645) • William Parker, 4th Baron Monteagle (died 1622) • Arbella Stuart, Duchess of Somerset (died 1615) • Cyril Tourneur, dramatist (died 1626) • 1576 • October – Thomas Weelkes, composer and organist (died 1626) • 7 October – John Marston, writer (died 1634) • 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 August (bapt.) – Barnaby Potter, Bishop of Carlisle (died 1642) • 20 November (bapt.) – Samuel Purchas, travel writer (died 1626) • Robert Cushman, Plymouth Colony settler (died 1625) • William Noy, lawyer and politician (died 1634) • Henry Somerset, 1st Marquess of Worcester (died 1646) • 1578 • 2 March – George Sandys, traveller (died 1644) • 1 April – William Harvey, physician (died 1657) • 16 May – Everard Digby, Gunpowder Plot conspirator (hanged 1606) • 24 August – John Taylor, "The Water Poet" (died 1653) • Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry, lawyer (died 1640) • Francis Manners, 6th Earl of Rutland (died 1632) • Ambrose Rookwood, Gunpowder Plot conspirator (hanged 1606) • 1579 • 13 July – Arthur Dee, physician and alchemist (died 1651) • 20 December (bapt.) – John Fletcher, playwright (died 1625) • Jacob Astley, 1st Baron Astley of Reading, royalist commander in the English Civil War (died 1652) ==Deaths==

• 1571 • 12 February – Nicholas Throckmorton, diplomat and politician (born 1515) • 1 June – John Story, Catholic lawyer, politician and martyr (executed) (born 1504) • 23 September – John Jewel, bishop (born 1522) • 1572 • January – Robert Pattison, actor (born c. 1535) • 10 March – William Paulet, 1st Marquess of Winchester (born c. 1483) • 2 June – Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk (executed) (born 1536) • 24 October – Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby, politician (born 1508) • Christopher Tye, composer and organist (born 1505) • 1573 • 12 January – William Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Effingham, Lord High Admiral (born 1510) • 14 May (bur.) – Richard Grafton, merchant and printer (born c. 1506/7 or 1511) • 29 July – John Caius, physician (born 1510) • Late – Reginald Wolfe, printer (year of birth unknown) • 1574 • circa 7 November – Robert White, composer (born 1538) • 1575 • 17 May – Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury (born 1504) • 14 July – Richard Taverner, Bible translator (born 1505) • 1576 • 22 September – Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex (born 1541) • 1577 • 12 August – Thomas Smith, scholar and diplomat (born 1513) • 7 October – George Gascoigne, poet (born c. 1525) • 29 November – Cuthbert Mayne, recusant Catholic priest and martyr, canonised (executed) (born 1543) • 1578 • 7 March – Lady Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox, member of the royal family, diplomat (born 1515) • 29 March – Arthur Champernowne, admiral (born 1524) • 20 June – Thomas Doughty, explorer (executed) (year of birth unknown) • 27 July – Jane Lumley, translator (born 1537) • 4 August – Thomas Stucley, adventurer (born 1525) • December – Nicholas Heath, Archbishop of York and Lord Chancellor (born 1501) • 1579 • 20 February – Nicholas Bacon, politician (born 1509) • 20 May – Isabella Markham, courtier (born 1527) • 10 June – William Whittingham, Biblical scholar and religious reformer (born 1524) • 21 November – Thomas Gresham, merchant and financier (born 1519) ==References==