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| Battle of Ostend Vere | |
| Ostend Helps defend Ostend |
| Birth Compton, Spencer | |
| Birth of Spencer Compton, son of the 1st Earl of Northampton |
| Birth Somerset, Edward | |
| Birth of Edward Somers et, eldest son of Henry Somers et, 6th Earl of Worcester |
| Death Devereux, Robert | |
| 25th Feb London Death of Robert Devereux, executed |
| Envoly Mar Erskine | |
| London Appointed Envoy to London to secure James VI's succession |
| Execution of Devereux Devereux, Robert | |
| 25th Feb London Executed for a plot to overthrow the Council |
| Execution of Essex Elizabeth I | |
| 8th Feb London Elizabeth ends the Earl of Essex's rebellion |
| Publication Donne, John | |
| Publication of, "Songs & Sonnets" |
| Rebellion Catesby, Robert | |
| 8th Feb London Involved in the failed Essex rebellion |
| Rebellion Devereux, Robert | |
| London Fails to raise the citizens of London during an anti-Cecil coup |
| London Induced by Mountjoy of Southampton to remove the Queen's counselors |
| Rebellion Elizabeth I | |
| 8th Feb London Elizabeth ends the Earl of Essex's rebellion |
| Reform Elizabeth I | |
| London Defeated by Parliament in her attempt to grant trading & manufacturing monopolies |
| London Forced by Parliament to renounce Crown rights to grant monopolies |
| 25th Nov London Says some monopolies should be suspended & new ones regulated by law |
| 25th Nov London Speeds up the Subsidy Bill |
| Siege of Ostend Vere, Francis | |
| Ostend Helps defend Ostend |
| Speaker House of Commons Coke, John | |
| Appointed Speaker of the House of Commons |
| Speech Elizabeth I | |
| London Elizabeth delivers her "golden speech" to the House of Commons |
| Succession Erskine | |
| London Helps negotiate James VI's succesion to the English throne with Elizabeth I |
| Trial Bacon, Francis | |
| London Convicts Essex of treason, his main rival for the favors of Queen Elizabeth |
| Trial Devereux, Robert | |
| London Tried by Bacon |
| Trial Howard, Charles | |
| London A Commissioner at the trial of Essex |
| Trial Sackville, Lionel | |
| London Presides at the trial of Essex |
| Unification Bacon, Francis | |
| London Involved in making final arrangements for the union of the English & Scottish Crowns |