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Period: 1563 to 1563
The plague hits London, closing the theaters
- There were several devastating disasters which shut the Globe theatre down however the Bubonic Plague was the most devastating of them all
- The outbreak of the Bubonic Plague was in 1563
- In 1603 the Bubonic Plague again ravaged London killing over 33,000 people
- The Bubonic Plague struck London in 1608 and the Globe Theatre was closed again since the disease was spreading the actors who were apart of the play were getting affected by it so they were forced to shut the theatre
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Period: 1576 to 1576
The first public Playhouse
-The Theatre was the first London playhouse, built in 1576 by the English actor and entrepreneur James Burbage he was the father of the great actor and friend of Shakespeare, Richard Burbage
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Period: 1577 to 1580
Sir Francis Drake’s circumnavigation of the world
- The Circumnavigation (1577-1580). In the Golden Hind, Sir Francis Drake's most famous ship, he became the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe, on an epic expedition of discovery and adventure.
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Sir Walter Raleigh’s first expedition to Roanoke
- On April 27, 1584, Raleigh dispatched an expedition led by Philip Amadas and Arthur Barlowe to explore the eastern coast of North America
- They arrived on Roanoke Island on July 4 and soon established relations with the local natives -The Roanoke Island colony, the first English settlement in the New World, was founded by English explorer Sir Walter Raleigh in August 1585.
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The coronation of Queen Elizabeth I
-A coronation is a ceremony marking the formal investiture of a monarch with regal power
- Queen Elizabeth I ascended the throne when she was 25 years old upon the death of her half-sister, Queen Mary I, on November 17 1558.
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The defeat of the Spanish Armada
- The Spanish Armada was a Spanish fleet of 130 ships that sailed from A Coruña in late May 1588, under the command of the Duke of Medina Sidonia, with the purpose of escorting an army from Flanders to invade England
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Christopher Marlowe’s Dr. Faustus premieres
- The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, is an Elizabethan tragedy by Christopher Marlowe, based on German stories about the title character Faust, that was written sometime between 1589 and 1592
- Doctor Faustus, a respected German scholar, is bored with the traditional types of knowledge available to him. He wants more than logic, medicine, law, and religion. He wants magic.
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The North Berwick Witch Hunt
- The North Berwick witch trials were the trials in 1590
- A number of people from East Lothian, Scotland, accused of witchcraft in the St Andrew's Auld Kirk in North Berwick. They ran for two years and implicated seventy people. These included Francis Stewart, 5th Earl of Bothwell on charges of high treason.
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The Earl of Essex’s attempted rebellion
- Essex's Rebellion was an unsuccessful rebellionled by Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, in 1601 against Elizabeth I of England and the court faction led by Sir Robert Cecil to gain further influence at court
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King James I succeeds Queen Elizabeth I
- James was the son of Mary, Queen of Scots
- In 1603, he succeeded the last Tudor monarch of England and Ireland, Elizabeth I, upon her death without a reason
- Elizabeth died at Richmond Palace on 24 March 1603. The Protestant King of Scotland James VI became King of England.
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The King James Bible is published
- The King James Bible is an English translation of the Christian Bible for the Church of England
- It begun in 1604 and published in 1611
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Shakespeare’s Macbeth premieres
- Shakespeare really could not lose with Macbeth when it was performed in 1605
- It is believed that Macbeth was first printed in 1623
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The Gunpowder Plot
- The Gunpowder plot took place in 1605
- In earlier centuries often called the Gunpowder Treason Plot or the Jesuit Treason, was a failed assassination attempt against King James I of England and VI of Scotland by a group of provincial English Catholics led by Robert Catesby.
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The founding of Jamestown, Virginia
- In 1607, 104 English men and boys arrived in North America to start a settlement
- On May 13, 1607 they picked Jamestown, Virginia for their settlement, which was named after their King, James I
- The settlement became the first permanent English settlement in North America.
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The Globe is destroyed by a fire
- The Globe Theatre was a theatre in London associated with William Shakespeare
- It was built in 1599 by Shakespeare's playing company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men, on land owned by Thomas Brend and inherited by his son, and was destroyed by fire on 29 June 1613
- It is said that a staged cannon fire during a performance of “Henry VIII” ignited a fire that burned the Globe Theatre to the ground.
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Theatres are shut down by the Puritans and acting is banned
- With the English Civil War having broken out in earnest in June 1642, the Long Parliament was now led primarily by Puritans, who viewed the theatre as centres of vice
- On September 2nd, an ordinance was passed that ordered theatres to close for the duration of the war.
- Dour Puritans celebrating the closing of theatres in 1642. The major closing was the banning of theatre at the start of the English Civil War. On September 6, 1642, by an act of Parliament, all theatres in England were closed