1590

1590 was a year.

The Sixth Doctor and Peri Brown met Christopher Marlowe in London. (AUDIO: Point of Entry)

Walter Raleigh, accompanied by Christopher Marlowe, returned to Roanoke Island to check on the colony he had established there in 1587. They found that the colony had been wiped out by the Greld, who also attacked Marlowe and implanted a mind-control device in him. (PROSE: The Empire of Glass)

The Sixth Doctor, Henry Gordon Jago‎, and George Litefoot‎ visited Roanoke Island. Raleigh discovered the TARDIS while they were visiting nearby Croatoan, but the Doctor prevented him from travelling in the ship, thus negating an alternate timeline in which he travelled to the 12th century and encountered the Semestran Interlude. (AUDIO: Voyage to the New World)

The Lunaries invited ambassadors from every capital city in Europe to the Moon to decide with which nation they would form an alliance. The English delegation was transported by Iris Wildthyme in her TARDIS, while the other nations used their own spaceships. The Lunaries eventually decided to form an alliance with England. (PROSE: Minions of the Moon)