ELIZABETH I
1558 – 1603
French Wars of Religion -
Tsar Boris Godunov -
Mary Queen of Scots -
Tupac Amaru (last of the Incas) -
Battle of Alcantara (Portugal) -
Babington Plot (Ridolfi & Throgmorton) -
(Songhai Empire) -
L1-
Hieronymus Fabricius
(Formation of the Fetus)
John Hawkins
(slave trader)
Gerardus Mercator
(projection)
Abraham Ortelius
(Theatre of the Earth)
Martin Frobisher
(NW Passage)
John Davis (Arctic)
Willem Barents
(NE Passage)
Francis Drake
(The Golden Hind)
Walter Raleigh
(The Lost Colony)
Richard Hakluyt
(Voiages)
Thomas Tallis & William Byrd
(Cantiones Sacrae)
Tomas Luis du Victoria (Requiem)
Andrea Amat (violin maker)
John Knox (Calvanism)
(The Confession of Faith)
Matteo Rici, Valignano,
Campion & Southwell
(RC Missionaries)
Tycho Brahe
(Castle of the Heavens)
Bruegel, the Elder
(The Wedding Dance)
Veronese and Tintoretto
(Doge’s Palace, Venice)
Sansovino (sculptor)
Peter Bales (caligraphia)
El Greco
(Agony in the Garden)
Nicholas Hilliard (miniaturist)
Michelangelo Caravaggio
(Supper at Emmaus)
Annibale Carracci (Pietà)
Luis de Camoens
(The Lusiads)
Michel de Montaigne
(Essais)
Christopher Marlowe
(Faustus)
Thomas Kyd
(Spanish Tragedy)
Edmund Spenser
(Faerie Queen)
William Shakespeare
(Julius Caesar)
The Globe Theatre
The Escorial Palace (Spain)
Andrea Palladio (Four Books)
Pompeii (Domenico Fontana)
Andrea Cesalpino (De plantis libri XVI)
William Gilbert (studies of electricity)