On 23 March 1596, Sir Henry Unton, the eldest surviving son of the late Anne Seymour, Countess of Warwick, died.

On 13 March 1555, John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford, Lord Privy Seal, died at his Westminster home, 'Russell House'.

On This Day (10 March) in 1538, a son and heir was born to Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, soldier, politician and poet, and his wife Frances

Henry Carey, later 1st Baron of Hunsdon, son of Mary Boleyn and her first husband William Carey, was born on this day, 04 March, in 1526.

On This Day (25 February) in 1601, 35 year-old Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, was executed at the Tower of London.

On 21 February 1590, only a short time after undergoing a lower leg amputation, Ambrose Dudley, 3rd Earl of Warwick, died at Bedford House.

On 16 February 1587, Elizabethan courtier, soldier and poet Sir Philip Sidney was interred at 'Old' St Paul's Cathedral.

On 08 February 1587, Mary, Queen of Scots was executed at Fotheringhay Castle, after being found guilty of high treason.

On 01 February 1555, the funeral of Jane Guildford, Duchess of Northumberland, widow of John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland, was held...

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 (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...

In December 1643, after an almost 40 year struggle, Lady Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery...

Around Christmas Time 1560, Katherine Grey, the younger sister of the ill-fated 'Thirteen Day Queen' Lady Jane Grey...

On This Day (14 December) in 1558, Queen Mary I's funeral was held at Westminster Abbey.

On 13 February 1542, Jane Parker, Viscountess Rochford, was led to a scaffold that had been erected on Tower Green...