March - The Prince and Princess of Wales are both afflicted by an unknown illness, "a malign vapour which proceeded from the air".[2] It would prove fatal for the prince.
25 April - The Prince of Wales is buried at the
Abbey of St Wulfstan in Worcester. His widow, Catherine, now Dowager Princess of Wales, is too ill to attend her husband's funeral, suffering from the same mystery illness that is thought to have killed him.
9 May - Sir William Herbert of Troy (illegitimate son of the late Earl of Pembroke) gives an undertaking to keep the peace with his half-brother, Sir Walter Herbert of Raglan (who was brother-in-law of
Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham), and with Henry Myles, his brother-in-law (the father of
Blanche Parry).[6]
Restrictions in the borough of
Caernarfon are eased: the Welsh are allowed to live inside the
town walls.[7]
1508
18 September -
Robert Sherborne, Bishop of St David's, is translated to the see of Chichester. St David's remains without a bishop until the following year.
22 September -
John Penny, Bishop of Bangor, is translated to the see of Carlisle; Bangor remains without a bishop until the following year.
A
Carmarthenshire land dispute becomes the last recorded case to be heard under Welsh law, four years after the 1536 Act stipulated that only English law was to be used in Wales.[14]
November -
Thomas Parry, faithful servant of
Princess Elizabeth, is made Comptroller of the Household on her accession to the throne, as well as receiving a knighthood.
26 May - A "congress of bards and musicians" takes place at
Caerwys, on the orders of a commission appointed by Queen
Elizabeth I of England.
1570
John Caius, in his book De Canibus Britannicis, describes
Welsh Springer Spaniels as "Spaniels whose skynnes are white and if marked with any spottes they are commonly red".[22]
14 April - A clandestine
Roman Catholic printing press is discovered in a cave on the
Little Orme on the north coast where it has been used by the
recusant Robert Pugh (squire of Penrhyn Hall) and his chaplain Father
William Davies to print Y Drych Cristianogawl ("The Christian Mirror"), the first book to be printed in Wales.[25]
February - A riot breaks out in Cardiff as the result of the activities of Sir William Herbert (a relative of the Earl of Pembroke) and his henchmen.
1596
Sir William and Nicholas Herbert are convicted by the Court of Star Chamber,[27] gaoled in the
Fleet Prison, and fined 1000 marks for their part in the previous year's affair.
The baterie of the Popes Botereulx, commonlye called the high Altare
Ban wedy i dynny air yngair alla o ben gyfreith Howel da...A certaine case extracte out of the Auncient Law of Hoel da... whereby it may be gathered that priestes had lawfully maried wyues at that tyme
A briefe and a playne introduction, teachyng how to pronounce the letters in the British tong (now commenly called Walsh)...
1556
Robert Recorde - The Castle of Knowledge, containing the Explication of the Sphere both Celestiall and Materiall, etc.
"G.R. of Milan" (
Gruffydd Robert or perhaps Robert Gwyn (
c. 1540/50-1592/1604)) - Y Drych Cristianogawl (first part; the first book printed in Wales, on the clandestine
Catholic press on the
Little Orme, with a false imprint of "Rouen, 1585")[25]
^The Scots Peerage, Founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland, ed. James Balfour Paul, Vol. IV (Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1907), pp. 530-1
March - The Prince and Princess of Wales are both afflicted by an unknown illness, "a malign vapour which proceeded from the air".[2] It would prove fatal for the prince.
25 April - The Prince of Wales is buried at the
Abbey of St Wulfstan in Worcester. His widow, Catherine, now Dowager Princess of Wales, is too ill to attend her husband's funeral, suffering from the same mystery illness that is thought to have killed him.
9 May - Sir William Herbert of Troy (illegitimate son of the late Earl of Pembroke) gives an undertaking to keep the peace with his half-brother, Sir Walter Herbert of Raglan (who was brother-in-law of
Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham), and with Henry Myles, his brother-in-law (the father of
Blanche Parry).[6]
Restrictions in the borough of
Caernarfon are eased: the Welsh are allowed to live inside the
town walls.[7]
1508
18 September -
Robert Sherborne, Bishop of St David's, is translated to the see of Chichester. St David's remains without a bishop until the following year.
22 September -
John Penny, Bishop of Bangor, is translated to the see of Carlisle; Bangor remains without a bishop until the following year.
A
Carmarthenshire land dispute becomes the last recorded case to be heard under Welsh law, four years after the 1536 Act stipulated that only English law was to be used in Wales.[14]
November -
Thomas Parry, faithful servant of
Princess Elizabeth, is made Comptroller of the Household on her accession to the throne, as well as receiving a knighthood.
26 May - A "congress of bards and musicians" takes place at
Caerwys, on the orders of a commission appointed by Queen
Elizabeth I of England.
1570
John Caius, in his book De Canibus Britannicis, describes
Welsh Springer Spaniels as "Spaniels whose skynnes are white and if marked with any spottes they are commonly red".[22]
14 April - A clandestine
Roman Catholic printing press is discovered in a cave on the
Little Orme on the north coast where it has been used by the
recusant Robert Pugh (squire of Penrhyn Hall) and his chaplain Father
William Davies to print Y Drych Cristianogawl ("The Christian Mirror"), the first book to be printed in Wales.[25]
February - A riot breaks out in Cardiff as the result of the activities of Sir William Herbert (a relative of the Earl of Pembroke) and his henchmen.
1596
Sir William and Nicholas Herbert are convicted by the Court of Star Chamber,[27] gaoled in the
Fleet Prison, and fined 1000 marks for their part in the previous year's affair.
The baterie of the Popes Botereulx, commonlye called the high Altare
Ban wedy i dynny air yngair alla o ben gyfreith Howel da...A certaine case extracte out of the Auncient Law of Hoel da... whereby it may be gathered that priestes had lawfully maried wyues at that tyme
A briefe and a playne introduction, teachyng how to pronounce the letters in the British tong (now commenly called Walsh)...
1556
Robert Recorde - The Castle of Knowledge, containing the Explication of the Sphere both Celestiall and Materiall, etc.
"G.R. of Milan" (
Gruffydd Robert or perhaps Robert Gwyn (
c. 1540/50-1592/1604)) - Y Drych Cristianogawl (first part; the first book printed in Wales, on the clandestine
Catholic press on the
Little Orme, with a false imprint of "Rouen, 1585")[25]
^The Scots Peerage, Founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland, ed. James Balfour Paul, Vol. IV (Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1907), pp. 530-1