February 7 The Palatine is installed, and Lodowic of Nassau on behalf of his brother Maurice.
14 Marriage celebrated between the King’s daughter Elizabeth and the Palatine Elector.
April 10 The Palatine Elector returned to Germany.
July. The Londoners send a colony to Derry and Colrayne in Ulster.
August 6 Dorchester burned by an accidental fire.
John, the elder Baron Harington, died in Germany.
October 25 Edward Coke, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, was created Chief Justice of the Royal Bench.
November 4 Viscount Rochester is created Earl of Somerset, and on the same day Edward Coke was sworn in as a member of the Privy Council.
December 26 The Earl of Somerset inauspiciously marries Francis, daughter of the Earl of Suffolk.