1 February 1586Death of Elizabeth IElizabeth I
Signs Mary Queen of Scots; death warrant but tries, unsuccessfully, to retain it
Historical records for England in 1586, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.
Signs Mary Queen of Scots; death warrant but tries, unsuccessfully, to retain it
Signs Mary Queen of Scots; death warrant but tries, unsuccessfully, to retain it
English sea captain John Davis sets sail from Dartmouth with 3 ships in a 2nd attempt to find the Northwest passage linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
Promises James VI an annual Grant
Mary writes to Babington ploting against Elizabeth I & falls into Walsinghams trap
Brought over to Plymouth from Colombia
Death of Anthony Babington, assassinated
Babington & his 5 associates are executed
Plans to free Mary & rally Catholic support for Spanish invasion. Plans to assassinate Elizabeth
When Davis returns he learns that one ship, the North Star, had been lost with all hands in a gale near the coast of Ireland
When Davis returns he learns that one ship, the North Star, had been lost with all hands in a gale near the coast of Ireland
North Star was lost with all hands in a gale near Ireland while returning from John Davis's second Arctic voyage.
Elizabeth will not risk a war to restore Mary & has Mary arrested
Announces death sentence to Mary Queen of Scots
After the death of Sydney the English are forced to withdraw from The Netherlands
Returns to England with potato & tobacco
Imports the first potato into England from Virginia on Francis Drakes ship
Returns to England with potato & tobacco
Educated at Gloucester Hall in Oxford, a college noted for its Catholic intake
Crosses the Scottish border & seeks Elizabeth's protection
Exposes the Babington plot
Conducts the siege of Zutphen without success
Appointed Speaker of the House of Commons, 2nd term
Commissioner at the trial of Mary Queen of Scots, one of the commissioners who found Mary, Queen of Scots guilty of treason
Presides over the commission which tried Mary I of Scotland
Commissioner at the trial of Mary Queen of Scots, one of the commissioners who found Mary, Queen of Scots guilty of treason
Member of court which tried Anthony Babington
A Commissioner at the trial of Mary Queen of Scots
Commissioner at the trial of Mary Queen of Scots
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