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The Catholic Church declared Queen Elizabeth I a heretic thus excommunicating her and any that obeyed her orders.
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Targeted assassinations against the Huguenots during the French Wars of Religion.
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Sir Francis Drake began his sail with five different vessels on December 13, 1577. Only one of the five made it to the end.
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Mary Queen of Scots is executed at the Tower of London after being implicated in the Babington Plot.
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The Roanoke Colony, also known as the Lost Colony, was established by Sir Walter Raleigh.
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After her death, James VI of Scotland becomes King James I of England.
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During performance of Shakespeare's "Henry VIII", a staged canon fire ignited a fire and burned down the Globe Theater to the ground.
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He is then succeeded by King Charles I.
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The Puritan parliament orders a ban on theaters and closes all of the playhouses.
