1500s, surely—James I was crowned in 1603, thus inaugurating the Stuart period. If one wanted to be especially fussy, one might identify the Tudor period as sta

1500s, surely—James I was crowned in 1603, thus inaugurating the Stuart period. If one wanted to be especially fussy, one might identify the Tudor period as starting in 1485 (when Henry VII was crowned King of England following his victory at Bosworth, and the end of the Wars of the Roses—incidentally, the last to win his throne on the field of battle) and finishing in 1558 with the ascension of Elizabeth I, her reign of 1558-1603 being known as the Elizabethan era.