First publication (anonymously in London) of William Baldwin's Beware the Cat (written 1553), an early example of extended fiction (and specifically of horror fiction) in English. This edition appears to have been suppressed and no copies survive.
Publication of the metrical psalterThe Whole Booke of Psalmes, Collected into English Meter, compiled mostly by Thomas Sternhold and John Hopkins and printed by John Day.
April - Parliament passes laws requiring Justices of the Peace to arbitrate trade disputes and conditions of apprenticeship.
June to October - Outbreak of plague in London kills over 20,000.
28 July - The English surrender Le Havre to the French after a siege.
Publication of John Shute's The First and Chief Groundes of Architecture, the first work in English on architecture.
1564
11 April - Treaty of Troyes: England receives monetary compensation for renouncing its claims to Calais.
30 April - Consecration of new St Michael the Archangel parish church at Woodham Walter in Essex, probably the first new post-Reformation Church of England place of worship.
July - Anthony Jenkinson returns to London from his second expedition to the Grand Duchy of Moscow, having gained a considerable extension of trading rights for the English Muscovy Company.
Autumn - Probable completion of the Exeter Canal, the first in England, and with the first use of a Pound lock in England (engineer: John Trew of Glamorgan).
1567
2 January - Parliament dissolved as Queen Elizabeth refuses to name a successor.
John Brayne builds the Red Lion theatre just east of the City of London, a playhouse for touring productions and the first known to be purpose-built in the British Isles since Roman times. However, there is little evidence that the theatre survives beyond this summer's season.
Jean Carré arrives in England from Antwerp and obtains a royal monopoly for the production of window glass on condition that the techniques would be taught to native Englishmen.
26 September - Spain seizes English ships off the coast of Mexico, and confiscates their cargo.
December - English seize bullion from Spanish ships at Plymouth.
The Bishops' Bible (The Holie Bible) published, a translation into English under the authority of the Church of England.
1569
11 January–6 May - The first known lottery in England is drawn outside St Paul's Cathedral in the City of London. Each share costs ten shillings and proceeds are used to repair harbours and for other public works.
20 January - Mary, Queen of Scots, detained at Tutbury Castle.
After September - Publication in London of Thomas Preston's tragedy Cambises.
First publication of Henry de Bracton's De legibus & consuetudinibus Angliæ ("On the Laws and Customs of England", left unfinished at Bracton's death c.1268).
