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William Allen – An Admonition to the nobility and people of England; John Dee – De heptarchia mystica; Robert Greene – Pandosto: The Triumph of Time; Thomas Hariot – A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia; Thomas Nashe – The Anatomie of Absurditie; William Rankins – The English Ape; Welsh Bible (translation by ...
The Spanish Armada (often known as Invincible Armada, or the Enterprise of England, Spanish: Grande y Felicísima Armada, lit. 'Great and Most Fortunate Navy') was a Spanish fleet that sailed from Lisbon in late May 1588, commanded by Alonso de Guzmán, Duke of Medina Sidonia, an aristocrat without previous naval experience appointed by Philip II of Spain.
He blew with His winds, and they were scattered (Latin: Flavit et Dissipati Sunt) is a phrase used in the aftermath of the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588. It referred to the storms in the northern Atlantic Ocean that destroyed much of the Armada, a large naval fleet commanded by the Duke of Medina Sidonia , after it retreated following an ...
The speech's veracity was accepted by the historian J. E. Neale in an article, 'The Sayings of Queen Elizabeth': "I see no serious reason for rejecting the speech. ... some of the phrases have every appearance of being the Queen's, and the whole tone of the speech is surely very much in keeping even with the few Elizabethan quotations that I have had room for in this article. ...
Henry Webley (died 22 August 1588) Richard Flower (c. 1566 - 30 August 1588) William Lampley (died 1 August 1588) Thomas Belson (c. 1564 - 5 July 1589) Humphrey Pritchard (died 5 July 1589) Robert Hardesty (died 24 September 1589) Nicholas Horner (died 4 March 1590) Alexander Blake (died 4 March 1590) Thomas Watkinson (died 31 May 1591)
1588–1589 – earliest probable date for the composition and first performance of Christopher Marlowe's The Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus in London. 1589 13 April – an English Armada led by Sir Francis Drake and Sir John Norreys and largely financed by private investors sets sail to attack the Iberian Peninsula ...
For a full timeline overview, see timeline of British history. There was no concept of "British history" in the 1500s, except that the word "British" was used to refer to the ancient Britons and the Welsh. This page presents a timeline of events in the history of England and Scotland from 1500 until 1599. 1509 England – Henry VIII crowned and married to Catherine of Aragon 1513 England and ...