* 1590 – John White, the governor of the Roanoke Colony, returns from a supply trip to England and finds his settlement deserted.

# Dorothea Sibylle ( 19 October 1590 – 9 March 1625 ), married in 1610 to Duke John Christian of Brieg

* John Nash ( MP ) ( 1590 – 1661 ), English merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1640 and 1648

The word militia dates back to at least 1590 when it was recorded in a book by Sir John Smythe, Certain Discourses Military with the meanings: a military force ; a body of soldiers and military affairs ; a body of military discipline

* 1590 – John White, The governor of the second Roanoke Colony, returns to England after an unsuccessful search for the " lost " colonists.

Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in the Americas, was abandoned in 1699 when Williamsburg became the new capital of the colony ; the Zwaanendael Colony became a ghost town in 1632, when every one of the colonists were massacred by Indians ; and in 1590, mapmaker John White arrived at the Roanoke Colony in North Carolina to find it deserted, its inhabitants having vanished without a trace.

Other possible sources are the anonymous play King Leir ( published in 1605 ); A Mirror for Magistrates ( 1574 ), by John Higgins ; The Malcontent ( 1604 ), by John Marston ; The London Prodigal ( 1605 ); Arcadia ( 1580 – 1590 ), by Sir Philip Sidney, from which Shakespeare took the main outline of the Gloucester subplot ; Montaigne's Essays, which were translated into English by John Florio in 1603 ; An Historical Description of Iland of Britaine, by William Harrison ; Remaines Concerning Britaine, by William Camden ( 1606 ); Albion's England, by William Warner, ( 1589 ); and A Declaration of egregious Popish Impostures, by Samuel Harsnett ( 1603 ), which provided some of the language used by Edgar while he feigns madness.

In 1590 he obtained the appointment of deputy Escheator to John Crofton, the Escheator-General.

Some possible influences can be found in the early plays of John Lyly, Robert Wilson's The Cobbler's Prophecy ( c. 1590 ) and Pierre de la Primaudaye's L ' Academie française ( 1577 ).

In 1590, they found the remnants of the colony purely by accident, but assumed it was only an outlying base of the main settlement, which they believed was in the Chesapeake Bay area ( John White's intended location ).

For example, Michael Taylor argues that there were at least thirty-nine history plays prior to 1592, including the two-part Christopher Marlowe play Tamburlaine ( 1587 ), Thomas Lodge's The Wounds of Civil War ( 1588 ), the anonymous The Troublesome Reign of King John ( 1588 ), Edmund Ironside ( 1590 – also anonymous ), Robert Green's Selimus ( 1591 ) and another anonymous play, The True Tragedy of Richard III ( 1591 ).

In the Chronicle of England 1590 John Stow writes, " To The Honorable Sir John Hart, Lord Maior, The Chronicle written before that nothing is perfect the first time, and that it is incident to mankinde to erre and slip sometimes, but the point of fantatical fooles to preserve and continue in their errors.

Owing to disputed appointments to the Mastership, Elizabeth I imposed the appointment of John Jegon as Master in 1590.

* Eleanor Tuchet ( 1590 – 1652 ), who married 1st: Sir John Davies, attorney of the king.

His descendant, another Sir Roger Townshend ( c. 1543 – 1590 ), had a son Sir John Townshend ( 1564 – 1603 ), a soldier, whose son, Roger Townshend, was created a baronet in 1617.

Johannes Crellius ( Polish: Jan Crell, English John Crell ) ( 26 July Hellmitzheim 1590 – Raków 1633 ) was a Polish and German theologian.

Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, in his teens, c. 1590 – 93, attributed to John de Critz

* Sir John Skeffington, 2nd Baronet ( c. 1590 – 1651 ).

* John White ( Welsh politician ) ( 1590 – 1645 ), lawyer and MP for Southwark, 1640 – 1645

* Eva Christina ( 1590 – 1657 )-married John George of Brandenburg ( 1577 – 1624 ), Duke of Jägerndorf

John Spencer ( 1590 – 1610 )

* 1590 – 1600 Robert Grave ( afterwards Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin, 1600 )

* Charles the Posthumous ( b. Graz, 7 August 1590 – d. Madrid, 28 December 1624 ), Bishop of Wroclaw and Brixen ( 1608 – 24 ), Grand Master of the Teutonic Order ( 1618 – 24 ).

In 1590 Edmund Spenser appended a sonnet to Oxford in The Faerie Queen.

Image: Elizabeth I Jesus College Oxford 1590. jpg | Elizabeth I wearing free-stitched Blackwork sleeves, stomacher, and collar ( beneath a sheer linen ruff ), c. 1590.

According to Edward Webbe's Rare and Wonderfull Things, published in 1590, Oxford travelled as far as Sicily on his proto-Grand Tour.

He also travelled throughout Great Britain to view documents, sites, and artefacts for himself: he is known to have visited East Anglia in 1578, Yorkshire and Lancashire in 1582, Devon in 1589, Wales in 1590, Salisbury, Wells and Oxford in 1596, and Carlisle and Hadrian's Wall in 1599.

* Steven W. May, ‘ Puttenham, George ( 1529 – 1590 / 91 )’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 8 Nov 2007

Norman Sanders ( 1968 ), for example, suggests 1590 – 1594 ; Clifford Leech ( 1969 ) argues for 1591 ; The Riverside Shakespeare ( 1974 and 1996 ) places the date at 1590 – 1593 ; The Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works ( 1986 and 2005 ) suggests 1589 – 1591 ; Kurt Schlueter ( 1990 ) posits 1593 ; The Norton Shakespeare: Based on the Oxford Shakespeare ( 1997 and 2008 ) suggests 1591 ; Mary Beth Rose ( 2000 ) suggests 1590 ; William C. Carroll ( 2004 ) posits 1590 – 1593 ; Roger Warren ( 2008 ) tentatively suggests 1587, but acknowledges 1590 / 1591 as more likely.

Among other things the series asserts that Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford was a secret illegitimate son of Queen Elizabeth I ; that Sir Francis Walsingham, the Queen's spymaster, did not die in 1590 as history records but lived in secret for another five years ; that playwrights Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson were all secret agents of the Queen and underwent dangerous missions in her service, in addition to their theatrical activities ; that the plays of all three had profound secret political and magical meanings ; that Edmund Spencer's The Faerie Queene was not a fictional work but was based on a true Kingdom of Faerie, whose Queen had a secret pact of mutual help with the English Queen Elizabeth ; that Christopher Marlowe was not assassinated in 1593 as history records but was taken into Faerie where he became the lover of the witch Morgan le Fay ; and that Shakespeare had also visited Faerie and personally met with Puck and other supposedly legendary characters depicted in A Midsummer Night's Dream.

He entered Gray's Inn in 1590 and entered Exeter College, Oxford in 1593 at the age of sixteen.

* Adams, Simon ( 2008a ): " Dudley, Ambrose, earl of Warwick ( c. 1530 – 1590 )" Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online edn.

He was educated at The Queen's College, Oxford, where he was elected fellow in 1575 and received his DD in 1590.

William Browne ( c. 1590 – c. 1645 ) was an English poet, born at Tavistock, Devon and educated at Exeter College, Oxford ; subsequently he entered the Inner Temple.

He was born at Plas Du, Llanarmon, near Snowdon, and was educated at Winchester School under Dr Thomas Bilson, and New College, Oxford, from where he graduated as Bachelor of Civil Law in 1590.

– 1 February 1590 ) was an English theologian, who was President of Magdalen College, Oxford, and Dean successively of Gloucester and Winchester.

On 4 March 1590, as a chaplain of Queen Elizabeth I, he preached before her an outspoken sermon and, in October that year, gave his introductory lecture at St Paul's, undertaking to comment on the first four chapters of the Book of Genesis.

It was granted city status by Royal Charter by Queen Elizabeth I in 1590, and was made a county borough in 1889 which gave it administrative independence from its county, Somerset.

Sir Francis Walsingham ( c. 1532 – 6 April 1590 ) was principal secretary to Queen Elizabeth I of England from 20 December 1573 until his death, and is popularly remembered as her " spymaster ".

After his education at St John's College, Cambridge, Salisbury was made Secretary of State following the death of Sir Francis Walsingham in 1590, and he became the leading minister after the death of his father in 1598, serving both Queen Elizabeth and King James as Secretary of State.

The church owned Bexhill Manor until Queen Elizabeth I acquired it in 1590 and granted it to Thomas Sackville, then Baron Buckhurst.

He was born at Stony Stratford, Buckinghamshire, England in 1590, to the Vicar of Great Budworth, Chester – Richard Eaton ( 1569 – 1616 ) and his wife, Elizabeth Shepheard ( 1569 – 1630 ).

In September of the same year he entered into a personal bond with Huntly for mutual assistance ; and in 1590 displeased the king by marrying, in spite of his prohibition, Lady Elizabeth Douglas, daughter of the 6th Earl of Morton.

Ambrose Dudley, 3rd Earl of Warwick, KG ( c. 1530 – 21 February 1590 ) was an English nobleman and general, and an elder brother of Queen Elizabeth I's favourite, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester.

Queen Elizabeth I acquired Bexhill Manor in 1590 and granted it to Sackville.

Little is known of the two daughters: Dorcas was married to Edward Rice on 9 November 1590 ; Elizabeth was buried at St. Anne, Blackfriars, on 14 June 1603, when she had just reached twenty, the age at which Dorcas married.

* Elizabeth Manners ( c. 1553 – c. 1590 ) she married Sir William Courtenay of Powderham Castle.

* Gilbert Gifford ( 1560 – 1590 ), double agent during years of Elizabeth I and Mary

In 1584 Gentili and Jean Hotman ( 1552 — 1636 ) were asked by the government to advise on the treatment of Spanish ambassador Bernardino de Mendoza ( about 1540 – 1604 ), who had been implicated in the so-called Throckmorton plot against Queen Elizabeth I. Hotman was the son of the French law professor François Hotman ( 1524 – 1590 ) and — like Gentili — a lawyer trained on the continent who had come to England for religious reasons.

Robert Cecil was a protege of Francis Walsingham, Elizabeth I's chief spymaster and he succeeded him as Secretary of State in 1590.