By 1579 the family was living in Totnes, where in the high street Hayman as a small boy met Sir Francis Drake, who presented him with an orange ( Hayman records the incident in one of his poems ).

Christian was also sent to be brought up at Güstrow but two years later, in 1579, the Rigsraad ( Danish Privy Council ) successfully requested his removal to Denmark, and Anne and Elizabeth returned with him.

Sir Nicholas Bacon ( 28 December 1510 – 20 February 1579 ) was an English politician during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I of England, notable as Lord Keeper of the Great Seal.

One regular visitor was Queen Elizabeth I who frequently visited Putney from 1579 – 1603, often visiting Mr John Lacy.

Sir Thomas Gresham ( c. 1519 – 21 November 1579 ), sometimes called Thomas Gresham the Elder, was an English merchant and financier who worked for King Edward VI of England and for Edward's half-sisters, Queens Mary I and Elizabeth I.

* The Lady of May – This is one of Sidney's lesser-known works, a masque written and performed for Queen Elizabeth in 1578 or 1579.

He travelled in Italy ; in Scotland, where he accompanied Mary, Queen of Scots ( then the widow of Francis II of France ); in England, where he saw Elizabeth I ( 1561, 1579 ); in Morocco ( 1564 ); and in Spain and Portugal.

At the same time, in 1579, arrangements began to be made for his marriage to Elizabeth I of England.

* 1579: British Navigator Sir Francis Drake ( c. 1540-96 ) on a voyage around the world in the Golden Hind, claims California for Queen Elizabeth I.

William Humfrey ( also Humphrey or Humphreys ) ( died 1579 ) was a goldsmith and Assay Master to Queen Elizabeth I of England.

About 1580 he circulated a manuscript tract in support of the scheme for the marriage of Elizabeth with François, Duke of Anjou, in answer to John Stubbe's Discoverie of a Gaping Gulf ( 1579 ), and at Burghley's request began a reply to a pamphlet denouncing female government, which he completed in 1589.

* Nicholas Bacon ( courtier ) ( 1510 – 1579 ), English politician during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal

Sandbach has been a market town since 1579 when it was granted a Royal Charter by Elizabeth I due to the petitioning of Sir John Radclyffe of Ordsall who, as the largest landowner in Sandbach and the owner of the Sandbach Old Hall, encouraged the farmers of the area to hold a market in the town on Thursdays.

A descendant of John — John Byron — served as High Sheriff of Lancashire in 1572, and was knighted by Elizabeth I in 1579.

According to research by Sam Bawlf, it could be that Sir Francis Drake made first contact with them in 1579, on a secret expedition ordered by Queen Elizabeth I.

* Elizabeth Catherina von Waldeck ( 1540 – 1579 ) who married Wernerus Crispinus ( 1535 – 1604 )

Gerardus Mercator's 1564 atlas of Europe, and Christopher Saxton's 1579 map authorised by Queen Elizabeth I.

In 1579 appeared the Historie of Guicciardini, translated out of French by Fenton and dedicated to Queen Elizabeth.

William Shakespeare, who was not even born until 1564, is mentioned in Chapter 17 as an adult and as being known at court, rubbing shoulders with Edmund Spenser, whose first major work The Shepheardes Calender was not published until 1579 ; and in Chapter 16, Queen Elizabeth even quotes from Troilus and Cressida, which was written around 1602.

Already during Queen Elizabeth I's reign reproductions of the classic orders had found their way into English architecture, based frequently upon John Shute's The First and Chief Grounds of Architecture, published in 1563, with two other editions in 1579 and 1584.

For this reason, then I want to describe, first, two examples of the puritanical attacks: Stephen Gosson's The School Of Abuse, 1579, and his later Playes Confuted, published in 1582.

* Roger I de Saint Larry, Lord of Bellegarde ( died 1579 ), Marshal of France in 1574

Sir Robert Harley ( 1579 – 1656 ) was an English statesman who served as Master of the Mint for Charles I and later supported the parliamentarians during the English Civil War.

Another son, Henri I de Montmorency ( 1534-1614 ), who became duc de Montmorency on his brother's death in 1579, had been governor of Languedoc since 1563.

His father had five sons, all clergymen, among them John White DD ( 1570 ?– 1615 ), chaplain to James I. Francis, after passing through the grammar school at St Neots, Huntingdonshire, was admitted pensioner at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, on 20 March 1579, aged 15.

Otherwise entitled Syr Nummus ( 2nd ed., 1579 ) he speaks of " the first three yeeres which I spent in the Innes of Chancery, being now about a dosen of yeeres passed.

Don Joseph Nasi ( or Nassi ; also known as João Miques / Micas and Don João Migas Mendes in a Portuguese variant, Giuseppe Nasi in Italian, and as Yasef Nassi in Ottoman Turkish ; 1524, Portugal – 1579, Constantinople ) was a Jewish diplomat and administrator, member of the House of Mendes / Benveniste, and a nephew of Dona Gracia Mendes Nasi, and influential figure in the Ottoman Empire during the rules of both Sultan Suleiman I and his son Selim II.

It is also claimed that in 1579, the Armenian patriarch Hovhannes I of Constantinople prayed day and night in order to obtain the Holy Fire, but lightning miraculously struck a column near the entrance and lit a candle held by the Orthodox patriarch of Jerusalem Sophronius IV standing nearby.

Andreas Ruckers I ( or Andries ) ( 30 August 1579 – after 1645 ) was the second son of Hans Ruckers, and likewise became a harpsichord maker based in Antwerp.

His younger brother Rafael I joined him there, and they continued to work closely together, moving to Cologne in about 1579, but continuing to visit Antwerp.

This is a history of Spain from the earliest times down to 1456, and was printed at Granada in 1545, and also in the Rerum Hispanicarum Scriptores aliquot, by R. Bel ( Frankfort, 1579 ).

The very first Bible printed in Scotland was a Geneva Bible, which was first issued in 1579.

His will, dated 18 April 1579, is printed in ‘ Durham Wills and Inventories ’ ( Surtees Soc.

In 1579, Vieta printed his canonem mathematicum ( Metayer publisher ).

The earliest surviving edition ( c. 1553 ) was printed at London by William Copland ( d. 1569 ); an Edinburgh edition, from the press of Henry Charteris ( d. 1599 ), followed in 1579.

), in twelve books, under the title of The Zodyake of Life ( 1560 ); The Popish Kingdome, or reign of Antichrist ( 1570 ), translated from Thomas Kirchmeyer or Naogeorgus ; The Spiritual Husbandrie from the same author, printed with the last Foure Bookes of Husbandrie ( 1577 ), collected by Conradus Heresbachius ; The Overthrow of the Gout ( 1577 ), a translation from Christopher Ballista ( Christophe Arbaleste ), and The Proverbes of Lopes de Mendoza ( 1579 ).

It was printed in 1579 in Kraków, at the Lazarus printing house.

Edmund Spenser's " Shepheard's Calender " was printed by Hugh Singleton at the sign of the " Gylden tunne " in Creed Lane in 1579.

In religion, Protestantism was a driving force in the use of the vernacular in Christian Europe, the Bible being translated from Latin into vernacular languages with such works as the Bible in Dutch: published in 1526 by Jacob van Liesvelt ; Bible in French: published in 1528 by Jacques Lefevre d ’ Étaples ( or Faber Stapulensis ); German Luther Bible in 1534 ; Bible in Spanish: published in Basel in 1569 by Casiodoro de Reina ( Biblia del Oso ); Bible in Czech: Bible of Kralice, printed between 1579 and 1593 ; Bible in English: King James Bible, published in 1611.

The first English edition was translated from the Spanish, and printed in 1579 by John Frampton, using a combination of Marco Polo's and Da Conti's narrations.

His next group of tragedies Marc-Antoine ( 1578 ), La Troade ( 1579 ), Antigone ( acted and printed 1580 ) shows an advance on the theatre of Étienne Jodelle and Jacques Grévin, and on his own early plays, in so much that the rhetorical element is accompanied by abundance of action, though this is accomplished by the plan of joining together two virtually independent pieces in the same way.

Translated by the Unity of the Brethren and printed in the town of Kralice nad Oslavou, the first edition had six volumes and was published between the years 1579 and 1593.