George Gascoigne
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© National Portrait Gallery, London
George Gascoigne
after Unknown artist
line engraving, published 1576
5 3/4 in. x 3 1/2 in. (147 mm x 88 mm) paper size
Given by the daughter of compiler William Fleming MD, Mary Elizabeth Stopford (née Fleming), 1931
Reference Collection
NPG D25502
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Current affairs
Parliament presents Queen Elizabeth I with a petition complaining of ecclesiastical abuses.The member of Parliament Peter Wentworth is imprisoned for attacking royal interference with Parliamentary freedom of speech.
The explorer and privateer Martin Frobisher sets out to find a Northwest passage to the Far East. He becomes the first European to visit Baffin Island, Canada.
Art and science
The actor and theatre manager James Burbage builds the Theatre, the first permanent playhouse in England, at Shoreditch, London.The composer Thomas Whithorne writes the earliest known autobiography in English.
International
Pacification of Ghent - an alliance between the Protestant northern and Catholic southern provinces of the Netherlands to collectively fight for the expulsion of Spanish troops from their territories.The Spanish army serving in the Low Countries mutinies and sacks the city of Antwerp.
Death of the Holy Roman Emperor Maximillian II and succession of his son Rudolf II.
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