Elizabeth succeeds to the throne; Shane O'Neill Rebellion begins; Assessed land income had on average fallen by 25%
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1559
Limits placed on export of grain
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1562
Shane is persuaded to visit London; Act on Prevention of Hoarding of Grain
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1563
Shane goes back to Ireland and continues to cause problems 5th Enclosure Act; Limits placed on export of grain; Statute of Artificers – found work for unemployed in local parish
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1566
Earl of Sussex is replaced by Henry Sidney in Ireland
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May 1567
Calvinist rebels in Netherlands are defeated by Spanish; Shane is killed in a barfight
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1569
Sir Peter Carew launched a series of attacks in Munster
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May 1568
Mary Queen of Scots flees to England
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October 1568
Conference at York to settle Mary’s future – first suggestion of Norfolk marriage
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December 1568
William Cecil impounds Spanish bullion ships
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1569
Sir James Fitzmorris Fitgerald attacks Sir Richard Grenville’s land; 1st Munster Rebellion begins
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January 1569
Elizabeth displays her disapproval at the elevation of the host during communion
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May 1569
Acts of Supremacy and Uniformity
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July 1569
Royal Injunctions on religious belief; plot to marry Norfolk to Mary Stuart begins
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6th September 1569
Leicester confessed involvement in marriage plan
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16th September 1569
Norfolk flees to Kenninghall Norfolk
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1st October 1569
Norfolk urges other earls not to rebel
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9th October 1569
Earl of Sussex at York investigates Westmorland and Northumberland
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24th October 1569
Norfolk sent to the Tower and earls summoned to court; Rebellion of the Northern Earls
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14th November 1569
Durham Cathedral seized
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22nd November 1569
5,400 arrive at Bramham Moor, near York
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24th November
Rebels turn back North, Mary taken to Coventry
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16th December
Northern Rebellion collapses
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February 1570
Lord Dacre’s Rebellion finally defeated in Cumberland
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1570
Papal Bull excommunciates Elizabeth; Duke of Norfolk executed for treason; Dacre tried by House of Lords
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1571
Ridolfi Plot; stronger anti-Catholic laws; limits on export of grain; MPs legislate to protect the Queen from Catholic plots
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1572
Earl of Northumberland returned to England by Scots and executed 1st Poor Law – recognising ‘deserving’ poor
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1573
1st Munster Rebellion ends
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1579
2nd Munster Rebellion begins
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July 1570
Sir James Fitzmorris Fitzgerald lands at Smerwick with troops from Pope he is killed and Earl of Desmond takes over
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1583
Geraldine/2nd Munster Rebellion ends
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1584
Act for the Queen’s Safety
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1585
Parry Plot
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1586
Babington Plot
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July 1586
Sir John Perrot becomes the new Lord Deputy then first President of Munster
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1588
Spanish Armarda
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1593
Limits placed on export of grain
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1594
Hugh O'Neill Earl of Tyrone begins to rebel
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1596
Oxfordshire Rising
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1597
6th Enclosure Act; O'Neill requests Spanish aid
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July 1598
Essex walks out on Elizabeth; William Cecil dies allowing reconciliation
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15th August 1598
4000 British defeated at the Battle of Yellow Ford; Act of the Relief of Poor JPs; Act for Punishment of Rogues
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March 1599
Essex appointed Lieutenant in Ireland
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September 1599
Essex abandons post and bursts into Elizabeth’s bedchamber
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June 1600
Essex condemned to lose all his offices and imprisoned
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August 1600
Essex released from prison
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September 1600
Elizabeth refuses to renew Essex's patent on import of sweet wines
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20th September 1600
Charles Blount, Lord Mountjoy replaces Essex and pushes Tyrone back to Ulster
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8th February 1601
Essex Rebellion
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25th February 1601
Essex executed
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2nd October 1601
5,400 Spanish crack troops arrive in ireland; siege of Kinsale where Mountjoy defeats Tyrone and gains the rest of Munster
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24th March 1603
Queen Elizabeth's death; end of Earl of Tyrone's rebellion
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