Events
- January 25 - The Lady Elizabeth's Men perform the formerly controversial Eastward Ho at Court
- April - Sir Francis Bacon's dual role as MP and attorney-general is objected to by Parliament.
- May 24 - Lope de Vega becomes a priest.
- November 1 - The Lady Elizabeth's Men perform Ben Jonson's Bartholomew Fair at Court, the day after its première.
- Izaak Walton owns an ironmonger's shop in Fleet Street, London.
- Luís de Sousa becomes a Dominican friar.
- The Duchess of Malfi is first performed at the Globe Theatre, London.
- Pietro Della Valle begins his travels.
- Madeleine de Souvré marries the marquis de Sablé.
- London sees a controversy between actors and watermen. In the first six months of the year, no theatres operate on the south bank of the Thames, causing a severe decline in demand for the watermen's taxi service. The watermen respond by proposing to limit the locations of the theatres around London, much to the actors' displeasure. The rebuilt Globe Theatre opens by June, and Philip Henslowe's new Hope Theatre opens in October, negating the watermen's complaint. John Taylor the Water Poet describes the controversy in his The True Cause of the Watermen's Suit Concerning Players.
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