Events from the 1550s in England. This decade marks the beginning of the Elizabethan era. Monarch – Edward VI (until 6 July 1553), Jane (disputed, 6 July...

The 1550s decade ran from January 1, 1550, to December 31, 1559. January 6 – Spanish Captain Hernando de Santana founds the city of Valledupar, in modern-day...

1550 and 1559. Cokayne, George Edward, ed. (1887). Complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct...

Battle of St. Quentin in August 1557, England entered the war. The French laid Siege to Calais in response. Following failure in mid-1557, a renewed attack...

its immediate environs, surveyed between 1553 and 1559, which survives only in part. It is the earliest true map of London (as opposed to panoramic views...

Events from the 10th century in the Kingdom of England. 902 Irish Norsemen, expelled from Dublin, establish colonies on The Wirral. 909 King Edward the...

in 1552 to mark the division of the Debatable Lands and thereby settle the exact boundary between the Kingdom of Scotland and the Kingdom of England....

Events of the year 2024 in England. 1 January – Figures published by NHS England show that almost three million people were seen for an urgent cancer check...

the 1100s in England. Monarch – William II (until 2 August 1100), then Henry I 1100 2 August – King William II dies in a hunting accident in the New Forest;...

Events from the 1010s in England. Monarch – Ethelred (to December 1013), Sweyn (December 1013 to 3 February 1014), Ethelred (3 February 1014 to 23 April...

Events from the 1590s in England. Monarch – Elizabeth I 1590 Publication of Edmund Spenser's poetry The Faerie Queene and his satire Mother Hubbard's Tale...

1610s in England. Monarch – James I 1610 9 February – Parliament assembles and debates the Great Contract proposed by Robert Cecil whereby in return...

Events from the 1330s in England. Monarch – Edward III 1330 19 March – Edmund of Woodstock, Earl of Kent is executed on the orders of the regent Roger...

Events from the 1150s in England. Monarch – Stephen (to 25 October 1154), then Henry II 1150 Henry, son of Empress Matilda, becomes Duke of Normandy. The...

Events from the 1170s in England. Monarch – Henry II 1170 April – Inquest of Sheriffs: Henry II looks into the financial dealings of local officials. 14...

Events from the 1040s in England. Monarch – Harold I (to 17 March 1040), Harthacanute (17 March 1040 to 8 June 1042), then Edward the Confessor 1040 17...

Events from the 1600s in England. This decade marks the end of the Elizabethan era with the beginning of the Jacobean era and the Stuart period. Monarch...

Events from the 1000s in England. Monarch – Ethelred 1000 English fleet invades the Isle of Man. English invasion of Cumbria fails. Heroic poem The Battle...

Events from the 1160s in England. Monarch – Henry II 1160 2 November – betrothal of 5-year-old Henry the Young King and 2-year-old Marguerite, daughter...

Events from the 1020s in England. Monarch – Canute 1020 Rotunda of Bury St Edmunds Abbey constructed. Aethelnoth enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury...

than in the Italian Renaissance. The English period began far later than the Italian, which was moving into Mannerism and the Baroque by the 1550s or earlier...

Events from the 1490s in England. Monarch – Henry VII Regent – Arthur, Prince of Wales (starting 2 October, until 17 November 1492) 1490 Construction begins...

Events from the 1060s in England. Monarch – Edward the Confessor (to 5 January 1066), Harold II (5 January to 14 October 1066), Edgar Ætheling (14 October...

Events from the 1320s in England. Monarch – Edward II (to 25 January 1327), then Edward III 1320 Walter Stapledon, Bishop of Exeter, is appointed as Lord...

Events from the 1460s in England. Monarch – Henry VI (until 4 March 1461), then Edward IV 1460 15 January – Wars of the Roses: Yorkists raid Sandwich,...

Events from the 1520s in England. Monarch – Henry VIII Regent – Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk (starting 31 May, until 16 July 1520) 1520 26–31 May...

Events from the 1200s in England. Monarch – John 1200 22 May – Treaty of Le Goulet signed by King John and Philip II of France, confirming John as ruler...

the 1380s in England. Monarch – Richard II 1380 16 January – Parliament declares Richard II of age to rule. 13 March – The town of Winchelsea in East Sussex...

Events from the 1390s in England. Monarch – Richard II (to 30 September 1399), then Henry IV 1390 Parliament passes a statute forbidding retainers to wear...

Events from the 1370s in England. Monarch – Edward III (to 21 June 1377), then Richard II. 1370 19 September – Hundred Years' War: Siege of Limoges – The...