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| 1533 | Birth |  |
| 7th Sep Birth of Robert Dudley, same date as Elizabeth I |
| 1550 | Marriage | |
| 4th June Lord Robert Dudley marries Amy Robsart |
| 1558 | Master of the Horse | |
| London Appointed Master of the Horse by Elizabeth I |
| 1559 | Privy Council | |
| Appointed Privy Councillor |
| 1560 | Death | |
| 8th Sep London Dudley's wife dies under suspicious circumstances |
| 1560 | Scandal | |
| 8th Sep London An inquest says Dudley's wife's death was accidental |
| 1562 | Lord Protector | |
| Appointed Protector of the Realm if Elizabet I is too ill to rule |
| 1564 | Marriage | |
| London Suggested as a husband for Mary Queen of Scots by Elizabeth I |
| 1564 | Peerage | |
| Leicester Created Earl of Leicester, 1st |
| 1565 | Marriage | |
| Kenilworth Given Kenilworth castle to equip him for a marriage to Mary, she marries Lord Darnley |
| 1565 | Peerage | |
| Leicester Created Earl of Leicester |
| 1575 | Conference of Kenilworth | |
| Kenilworth Entertains Elizabeth I at Kenilworth Castle |
| 1578 | Marriage | |
| Dudley marries Lettice Knollys , widow of Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex |
| 1585 | Invasion of Holland | |
| Has 6,000 English troops to aid the United Provinces against Spain |
| 1586 | Siege of Zutphen | |
| Zutphen Conducts the siege of Zutphen without success |
| 1587 | Invasion of Holland | |
| The English withdraw from the Netherlands |
| 1588 | Invasion of England | |
| Aug Tilbury Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester maintaines a force of 4,000 soldiers at West Tilbury, Essex, to defend the estuary of the River Thames against any incursion up-river towards London |
| 1588 | Spanish Armada | |
| Aug Tilbury Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester maintaines a force of 4,000 soldiers at West Tilbury, Essex, to defend the estuary of the River Thames against any incursion up-river towards London |
