Years 1595-1596

March 15. Shakespeare is mentioned in the
Revels Accounts as payee for
a Christmas performance by the Lord Chamberlain's
Men before the Queen.
Shakespeare is living in St. Helen's parish, Bishopsgate.

Sidney's Defence of Poesie
is published.Spenser'sAmoretti
is published.
Walter Raleigh explores Orinoco.
Fire in Stratford in September.
The Lambeth Articles are drawn up by Archbishop Whitgift,
defining the Anglican position on predestination as
Calvinist; but Elizabeth countermands the change.
Heels appear on shoes for the first time.
The bow and arrow are abolished as weapons of war.Drake and Hawkins die both
die on an unsuccessful privateering expedition to the
Spanish Main.

1596

Aug. 11. Hamnet Shakespeare is buried at Stratford.
Oct. 20. A coat of arms is granted to
John Shakespeare.
Oct. Tax records indicate that Shakespeare is living in
parish of St. Helen's, Bishopsgate; he is assessed 5s. on
goods valued at £5.
Nov. 29. A writ of Attachment is issued to the Sherriff
of Surrey to enforce Shakespeare and three others to keep
the peace.

A peasant uprising is put down in South
Oxfordshire.
The Swan Theatre is built on the
Bankside.
Opening of the second
Blackfriars Theatre.Spenser'sFaerie
Queene (Books 4-6) is published.Galileo invents the
thermometer.
Henry Carey, Lord Chamberlain
dies. His son, George Carey, 2nd Lord Hunsdon, assumes
patronage of the Lord Chamberlain's Men and they become
known as Hunsdon's Men.
Descartes is born.
An expedition under the Earl of Essex blockades and
temporarily captures Cadiz.