1610
9 February – Parliament assembles and debates the Great Contract proposed by Robert Cecil whereby in return for an annual grant of £200,000, the Crown should give up its feudal rights of Wardship and Purveyance , as well as New Impositions .[ 1]
23 May – the House of Commons petitions King James I against imposed duties.[ 2]
9 July – Arbella Stuart , a claimant to the throne, imprisoned for marrying William Seymour, 2nd Duke of Somerset , another claimant, on 22 June.[ 3]
23 July – Parliament prorogued.[ 1]
3 August – Henry Hudson leads an expedition to Hudson Bay .[ 3]
20 September – Case of Proclamations rules that the monarch cannot make decisions by proclamation unsupported by legislation.
16 October – Parliament assembles.[ 1]
6 December – Parliament prorogued and does not assemble again until 1614.[ 1]
December – Thomas Harriot becomes one of the first astronomers to observe sunspots .[ 2]
Winter – the decision in Dr. Bonham's Case asserts the supremacy of the common law .
Stained glass windows installed in the chapel of Hatfield House by Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury , are the first in the country since the start of the English Reformation .[ 4] First performance of Ben Jonson 's satirical comedy The Alchemist [ 2]
First performance of William Shakespeare 's late romance Cymbeline [ 3]
The first edition of William Camden 's antiquarian chorography Britannia in English is published in an enlarged translation by Philemon Holland . 1611
4 March – George Abbot enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury .
2 May – the Authorized King James Version of the Bible is published,[ 2] Robert Barker .
11 May – first recorded performance of Shakespeare 's The Winter's Tale [ 3] King's Men at the Globe Theatre in London.
22 May – the first hereditary baronets are created by letters patent from the King, largely as a means of funding the army.[ 2] Sir Nicholas Bacon, 1st Baronet, of Redgrave in Suffolk becomes the premier baronet of England .
22 June – the crew of Henry Hudson 's ship Discovery Hudson Bay .[ 5]
1 November – at Whitehall Palace in London , William Shakespeare 's romantic comedy and last solo play The Tempest The Winter's Tale is presented at Court on 5 November.
John Donne 's poem An Anatomy of the World published.Ben Jonson's play Catiline His Conspiracy [ 2]
Cyril Tourneur 's play The Atheist's Tragedy [ 2] Last known traditional performance of an English mystery play , at Kendal .
Thomas Sutton founds Charterhouse School on the site of the old Carthusian monastery in Charterhouse Square , Smithfield, London .1612
1613
14 February – Elizabeth Stuart , daughter of King James I, marries Frederick V, Elector Palatine , at the Chapel Royal in Whitehall .[ 2]
29 June – the original Globe Theatre in Southwark is destroyed by a fire started during a performance of the Shakespeare play Henry VIII [ 5]
6 August – Great fire of Dorchester, Dorset .[ 8]
15 September – death of Thomas Overbury by poisoning in the Tower of London , having been imprisoned after quarrelling with Robert Carr, Viscount Rochester .[ 1]
29 September – the New River (engineered by Sir Hugh Myddelton ) is opened to supply London with drinking water from Hertfordshire .[ 2]
3 November – Robert Carr, Viscount Rochester , is created Earl of Somerset.[ 2]
23 December – marriage of the Earl of Somerset to Frances Howard ,[ 1] John Donne 's Eclogue .
Copper (tin-faced) farthings are produced by John Harington, 1st Baron Harington of Exton and his family under royal licence.
English colonists destroy a French settlement at Port Royal, Nova Scotia .[ 2]
The King condemns duels in his proclamation Against Private Challenges and Combats .
Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland 's closet drama The Tragedy of Mariam 1614
5 April – Parliament assembles for the first time since 1610 and debates the imposition of taxes by the King.[ 1]
7 June – King James dissolves the Addled Parliament for refusing to impose new taxes.[ 5]
June – King James raises money through a Benevolence; non-contributors are arraigned before the Court of Star Chamber .[ 3]
31 October – first performance of Ben Jonson's Bartholomew Fayre: A Comedy [ 3] 1615
1616
1 January – King James attends the masque The Golden Age Restored Ben Jonson on fallen court favorite the Earl of Somerset . The king asks for a repeat performance on 4 January.
3 January – the King's current favourite Sir George Villiers is appointed Master of the Horse ;[ 2] Order of the Garter ; and on 27 August is created Viscount Villiers and Baron Waddon, receiving a grant of land valued at £80,000.
10 January – English diplomat Sir Thomas Roe presents his credentials to the Mughal Emperor Jahangir in Ajmer , opening the door to the British presence in India .[ 9]
1 February – King James grants Ben Jonson an annual pension of 100 marks , making him de facto poet laureate .[ 11]
11 March – Roman Catholic priest Thomas Atkinson is hanged, drawn, and quartered at York , at age 70.[ 12]
19 March – Sir Walter Ralegh is released from the Tower of London , where he has been imprisoned for treason, to organise an expedition to El Dorado .[ 5]
26 March–30 August – William Baffin makes a detailed exploration of Baffin Bay whilst searching for the Northwest Passage .[ 13]
23 April – playwright and poet William Shakespeare dies (on or about his 52nd birthday) in retirement in Stratford-upon-Avon and is buried two days later in the Church of the Holy Trinity there.
25 April – Sir John Coke , in the Court of King's Bench , holds the King's actions in a case of In commendam
25 May – the King's former favourite the Earl of Somerset and his wife Frances are convicted of the murder of Thomas Overbury . They are spared death and are sentenced to imprisonment in the Tower of London.[ 1] [ 14]
12 June – Pocahontas (now Rebecca) arrives in England, with her husband, John Rolfe ,[ 13] [ 15] Thomas Rolfe , her half-sister Matachanna (alias Cleopatra) and brother-in-law Tomocomo , the shaman also known as Uttamatomakkin (having set out in May). Ten Powhatan Indians are brought by Sir Thomas Dale , the colonial governor, at the request of the Virginia Company , as a fund-raising device. Dale, having been recalled under criticism, writes A True Relation of the State of Virginia, Left by Sir Thomas Dale, Knight, in May last, 1616 , in a successful effort to redeem his leadership but neither Dale nor Pocahontas see Virginia again.
July – King James begins to raise revenue by the sale of peerages .[ 3]
October
October/November – Ben Jonson 's satirical five-act comedy The Devil is an Ass Blackfriars Theatre by the King's Men , poking fun at credence in witchcraft and Middlesex juries.[ 17]
4 November – Prince Charles , the 15-year-old surviving son of King James and Anne of Denmark , is invested as Prince of Wales at Whitehall, the last such formal investiture until 1911 .
5 November – Bishop Lancelot Andrewes preaches the annual Gunpowder Treason sermon before the King at Whitehall , both having been intended victims of the plot.
6/25 November – Ben Jonson 's works are published in a collected folio edition; the first of any English playwright.[ 3] [ 18]
14 November – Sir Edward Coke is dismissed as Chief Justice of the King's Bench by royal prerogative.
25 December
Epidemic typhus outbreak.Witch trials under the Witchcraft Act 1603 : Elizabeth Rutter is hanged as a witch in Middlesex , Agnes Berrye in Enfield , and nine women in Leicester at a summer assize presided over by Sir Humphrey Winch .[ 20] Inigo Jones designs the Queen's House at Greenwich [ 13] classical architecture in the country (work is suspended in 1619 and resumed 1630–38).The Anchor Brewery is established in London by James Monger next to the Globe Theatre in Southwark ; it will be the world's largest by the early nineteenth century and brew until the 1970s.[ 21]
Publications:
1617
1618
1619
1610
1611
1612
1613
1614
1615
1616
23 January – Ralph Josselin , vicar of Earls Colne in Essex (died 1683 )
June – John Thurloe , secretary to the council of state in Protectorate England and spymaster for Oliver Cromwell (died 1668 )
August – William Russell, 1st Duke of Bedford , peer and soldier (died 1700 )
17 September (bapt.) – Obadiah Walker , academic and Master of University College, Oxford from 1676 to 1688 (died 1699 )
18 October – Nicholas Culpeper , botanist (died 1654 )
23 November – John Wallis , mathematician (died 1703 )
17 December – Roger L'Estrange , pamphleteer and author (died 1704 )
Henry Bard, 1st Viscount Bellomont , Royalist (died 1656 )Thomas Harrison , puritan soldier and Fifth Monarchist (died 1660 )William Holder , music theorist (died 1698 )John Owen , Nonconformist church leader and theologian (died 1683 )Edward Sexby , Puritan soldier and Leveller in the army of Oliver Cromwell (died 1658 )
1617
1619
1610
1611
Henry Hudson , sea explorer and navigator (lost at sea) (born c. 1565?)
1612
9 January – Sir Leonard Holliday , a founder of the East India Company and a Lord Mayor of London (born c. 1550?)
15 January – Hadrian à Saravia , theologian (born 1532 in the Spanish Netherlands)
11 April – Edward Wightman , Baptist preacher (burned at the stake) (born 1566 )
24 May – Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury , statesman and spymaster (born 1563 )
4 August – Hugh Broughton , scholar (born 1549 )
6 November – Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales , heir to the throne (born 1594 in Scotland)
12 November – Sir John Harington , courtier, writer and inventor of a flush toilet (born 1561 )
1613
1614
1615
1616
1617
1618
7 June – Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr , Governor of Virginia (born 1577 )
20 July – James Montague , bishop and academic (born 1568 )
28 September – Joshua Sylvester , poet (born 1563 )
29 October – Sir Walter Ralegh , soldier, politician, courtier, explorer, historian, poet and spy (executed) (born 1552 or 1554)
1619
^ a b c d e f g h "The government of James I" . Archived from the original on 2008-05-14. Retrieved 2008-03-17 .^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History 243–248 . ISBN 0-304-35730-8 ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History . London: Century Ltd. pp. 170–172. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2 ^ Nicolson, Adam (2003). Power and Glory . London: HarperCollins. ISBN 0-00-710893-1 ^ a b c d e Penguin Pocket On This Day . Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0 ^ Grafton, Anthony. "A Sketch Map of a Lost Continent: The Republic of Letters" . Archived from the original on 22 May 2010. Retrieved 2010-04-28 . ^ Haddon, Celia (2004). The First Ever English Olimpick Games . London: Hodder & Stoughton. ISBN 0-340-86274-2 ^ "The Great Fire of Dorchester" . Dorset Ancestors. 2011-05-28. Retrieved 2018-02-27 .^ a b Strachan, Michael (2004). "Roe, Sir Thomas (1581–1644)" . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography doi :10.1093/ref:odnb/23943 . Retrieved 2012-10-09 . (subscription or UK public library membership required) ^ Friar, Stephen (2001). The Sutton Companion to Local History (rev. ed.). Stroud: Sutton Publishing. p. 241. ISBN 0-7509-2723-2 ^ Donaldson, Ian (2004). "Jonson, Benjamin (1572–1637)" . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography doi :10.1093/ref:odnb/15116 . Retrieved 2012-10-09 . ^ public domain : Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Ven. Thomas Atkinson ". Catholic Encyclopedia ^ a b c Everett, Jason M., ed. (2006). "1616". The People's Chronology . Thomson Gale. ^ Bellany, Alastair (2004). "Carr, Robert, earl of Somerset (1585/6?–1645)" . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . Oxford University Press. doi :10.1093/ref:odnb/4754 . Retrieved 2012-10-09 . ^ Tilton, Robert S. (1994). Pocahontas: The Evolution of an American Narrative ISBN 978-0-521-46959-3 ^ Kellett, Arnold (2003). King James's School, 1616–2003 . Knaresborough: King James's School. ISBN 0-9545195-0-7 ^ Published 1631.
^ Bland, M. (1998). "William Stansby and the production of the Workes of Beniamin Jonson , 1615–16". The Library . 20 . Bibliographical Society : 10. doi :10.1093/library/20.1.1 . ^ Ratnikas, Algirdas J. "Timeline Indonesia" . Timelines.ws. Archived from the original on 2010-07-10. Retrieved 2010-08-12 . ^ Robbins, Russell Hope (1959). The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology . New York: Bonanza Books. ^ Lesley Richmond; Alison Turton (1990). The Brewing Industry: A Guide to Historical Records ISBN 978-0-7190-3032-1 ^ Homer, Trevor (2006). The Book of Origins . London: Portrait. pp. 283–4. ISBN 0-7499-5110-9 ^ "March 11th" , The Book of Days , Chambers, 1869, archived from the original on 18 December 2007, retrieved 2007-11-21 ^ Stratton, J. M. (1969). Agricultural Records . John Baker. ISBN 0-212-97022-4
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Ven. Thomas Atkinson". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.