On This Day (30 January) in 1590, Anne Clifford, writer, poet, prolific diarist and literary patron, was born at Skipton Castle, Yorkshire.

On This Day (27 January) in 1569, Æmilia Bassano, Elizabethan courtier and Jacobean writer and poet was baptised.

On This Day (26 January) in 1533, lawyer and Speaker of the House of Commons, Thomas Audley was formally appointed as Lord Chancellor...

On This Day (22 January) in 1554, Robert Dudley, the 21-year-old son of John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland, was found guilty of treason

On This Day (19 Jan) in 1601, Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, Elizabethan courtier, soldier, politician and patron of the arts, died.

On This Day (17 January) in 1549, Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley, and Lord High Admiral was arrested at his London home...

On This Day (15 January) 1569, Catherine Carey, Lady Knollys, Elizabeth I's Chief Lady of the Bedchamber, died at Hampton Court Palace...

On 17 November 1558, Elizabeth I ascended the throne of England, following the death of her half-sister Mary I.

On This Day (10 January) in 1564, Margaret Audley, Duchess of Norfolk, died in Norwich, aged around 23 years old...

On This Day (07 January) in 1619, Elizabethan portrait miniaturist and goldsmith Nicholas Hilliard, was buried at St Martin-in-the-Fields...