1 November – at
Whitehall Palace in
London,
William Shakespeare's romantic comedy and last solo play The Tempest is performed, perhaps for the first time. The Winter's Tale is presented at Court on 5 November.
John Donne's poem An Anatomy of the World published.
3 January – the King's current favourite
Sir George Villiers is appointed
Master of the Horse;[2] on 24 April he receives the
Order of the Garter; and on 27 August is created Viscount Villiers and Baron Waddon, receiving a grant of land valued at £80,000.
25 May – the King's former favourite the
Earl of Somerset and his wife
Frances are convicted of the murder of
Thomas Overbury. They are spared death and are sentenced to imprisonment in the Tower of London.[1][14]
12 June –
Pocahontas (now Rebecca) arrives in England, with her husband,
John Rolfe,[13][15] their one-year-old son,
Thomas Rolfe, her half-sister Matachanna (alias Cleopatra) and brother-in-law
Tomocomo, the
shaman also known as Uttamatomakkin (having set out in May). Ten
PowhatanIndians are brought by Sir
Thomas Dale, the colonial governor, at the request of the
Virginia Company, as a fund-raising device. Dale, having been recalled under criticism, writes A True Relation of the State of Virginia, Left by Sir Thomas Dale, Knight, in May last, 1616, in a successful effort to redeem his leadership but neither Dale nor Pocahontas see Virginia again.
July – King James begins to raise revenue by the sale of
peerages.[3]
The
Anchor Brewery is established in London by James Monger next to the
Globe Theatre in
Southwark; it will be the world's largest by the early nineteenth century and brew until the 1970s.[21]
Dr.
John Bullokar's dictionary An English Expositor: teaching the interpretation of the hardest words used in our language, with sundry explications, descriptions and discourses.
John Deacon's tract Tobacco Tortured in the Filthy Fumes of Tobacco Refined.
Robert Fludd's defence of
RosicrucianismApologia Compendiaria, Fraternitatem de Rosea Cruce suspicionis … maculis aspersam, veritatis quasi Fluctibus abluens (at
Leiden).
17 March – Sir
Walter Ralegh in The Destiny leaves on a second expedition to the
Orinoco River in search of
El Dorado.[2] On 12 June, soon after leaving Plymouth, his fleet is scattered by a storm and it is unable to set out again (from
Cork) until 19 August.
1 November – at
Whitehall Palace in
London,
William Shakespeare's romantic comedy and last solo play The Tempest is performed, perhaps for the first time. The Winter's Tale is presented at Court on 5 November.
John Donne's poem An Anatomy of the World published.
3 January – the King's current favourite
Sir George Villiers is appointed
Master of the Horse;[2] on 24 April he receives the
Order of the Garter; and on 27 August is created Viscount Villiers and Baron Waddon, receiving a grant of land valued at £80,000.
25 May – the King's former favourite the
Earl of Somerset and his wife
Frances are convicted of the murder of
Thomas Overbury. They are spared death and are sentenced to imprisonment in the Tower of London.[1][14]
12 June –
Pocahontas (now Rebecca) arrives in England, with her husband,
John Rolfe,[13][15] their one-year-old son,
Thomas Rolfe, her half-sister Matachanna (alias Cleopatra) and brother-in-law
Tomocomo, the
shaman also known as Uttamatomakkin (having set out in May). Ten
PowhatanIndians are brought by Sir
Thomas Dale, the colonial governor, at the request of the
Virginia Company, as a fund-raising device. Dale, having been recalled under criticism, writes A True Relation of the State of Virginia, Left by Sir Thomas Dale, Knight, in May last, 1616, in a successful effort to redeem his leadership but neither Dale nor Pocahontas see Virginia again.
July – King James begins to raise revenue by the sale of
peerages.[3]
The
Anchor Brewery is established in London by James Monger next to the
Globe Theatre in
Southwark; it will be the world's largest by the early nineteenth century and brew until the 1970s.[21]
Dr.
John Bullokar's dictionary An English Expositor: teaching the interpretation of the hardest words used in our language, with sundry explications, descriptions and discourses.
John Deacon's tract Tobacco Tortured in the Filthy Fumes of Tobacco Refined.
Robert Fludd's defence of
RosicrucianismApologia Compendiaria, Fraternitatem de Rosea Cruce suspicionis … maculis aspersam, veritatis quasi Fluctibus abluens (at
Leiden).
17 March – Sir
Walter Ralegh in The Destiny leaves on a second expedition to the
Orinoco River in search of
El Dorado.[2] On 12 June, soon after leaving Plymouth, his fleet is scattered by a storm and it is unable to set out again (from
Cork) until 19 August.