 Text search
 Related images
 HistoryWorld
 Link
 Map
Click the icons to visit linked content. Hover to see the search terms. |
|  |
| | | | | | | |
|
| 1603 March 23 |
| | | Queen Elizabeth I dies at the age of 69 in Richmond Palace | |
|  | The last known letter of Elizabeth I, 1603
National Archives, Kew
|
|
|
| 1604 |
| | | Bushy Park has by now acquired its familiar name, from the thorn bushes planted to protect the sapling oaks from the deer | |
| |
|
| 1610 |
| | | Sir Thomas Vavasour builds Ham House | |
|  | Ham House
|
|
|
| c. 1610 |
| | | A 3 storey brick mansion set in 74 acres, later known as Cambridge Park, is built by Sir Humphrey Lynd. | |
| |
|
| 1619 |
| | | Dee’s house and estate are purchased by Francis Crane to establish the Mortlake Tapestry Works, with eighteen looms operated by Flemish weavers | |
| |
|
| 1626 |
| | | Ham House is expanded by William Murray, former ‘whipping boy’ to Charles I, and later created Earl of Dysart | |
| |
|
| c. 1631 |
| | | Samuel Fortrey builds a house with gables, in the Dutch style, in what is now Kew Gardens. | |
| |
|
| 1632 |
| | | Charles I acquires Raphael’s cartoons for The Acts of the Apostles (now in the Victoria and Albert Museum), to be copied as tapestries in the workshops at Mortlake | |
| |
|
| c. 1635 |
| | | York Farm, now known as York House, is built for Andrew Pitcarne, Groom of the Bedchamber of Charles I. | |
| |
|
| 16381639 |
| | | The Longford River is constructed to take water from the River Colne over Hounslow Heath to the Hampton Court Parks to supply water to the gardens. | |
| |
|
| | | | | |
| |