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| 1559 | Ambassador |  |
| Appointed Ambassador to France |
| Paris Appointed Ambassador to France |
| 1569 | Rebellion | |
| Commands the Horse against the northern rebels |
| 1573 | Peerage | |
| Effingham Created Baron Effingham, 2nd |
| 1574 | Lord Chamberlain | |
| Appointed Lord Chamberlain |
| 1583 | Lord Chamberlain | |
| 1585 | Lord High Admiral | |
| Appointed Lord High Admiral |
| 1586 | Trial | |
| A Commissioner at the trial of Mary Queen of Scots |
| 1588 | Battle of Calais | |
| 19th July Calais An English attack is launched from the Scilly Isles by Lord Howard |
| 8th Aug Calais Sends 8 tarred fireships to attack the Armada where it waits to rendezvous with Parma |
| 1588 | Battle of Flanders Coast | |
| 7th Aug Flanders The English and Spanish fleets again engage off the coast of Flanders , the English again are more successful |
| 1588 | Battle of Gravelines | |
| 6th Aug Gravelines The Spanish Armada is defeated by an English naval force under command of Lord Charles Howard and Sir Francis Drake off the coast of Gravelines , now in France |
| 7th Aug Gravelines On the day after Gravelines , the wind had backed, southerly, enabling Medina Sidonia to move the Armada northward (away from the French coast), the English pursue the Spanish fleet, to prevent it returning to escort Parma |
| 1588 | Commander | |
| Named Commander-in-Chief of the English fleet against the Spanish Armada although he does not directly take charge of the fighting |
| 1588 | Spanish Armada | |
| Effingham orders an indirect strategy of harassing the Spanish fleet rather than attacking them directly |
| 12th Aug Howard calls a halt to the chase in the latitude of the Firth of Forth off Scotland but ut by that point, the Spanish are suffering from thirst and exhaustion, the only option left to Sidonia is to chart a course home to Spain, along the Atlantic |
| 1596 | Peerage | |
| Nottingham Created Earl of Nottingham, 1st |
| 1596 | Siege of Cadiz | |
| Cadiz Assists Essex on his Cadiz expedition |
| Cadiz Assists Essex with his raid on Cadiz |
| 1601 | Trial | |
| London A Commissioner at the trial of Essex |
