The Triumph of Elizabeth - Key dates

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1547
Accession of Edward VI, Somerset appointed Lord Protector, Repeal of Act of Six Articles, Book of Homilies and Paraphrases, Battle of Pinkie and invasion of Scotland, Vagrancy Act
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1548
Enclosure commission established, Proclamations against enclosure, Inflationary pressures, Stanhope becomes Chief Gentleman of the Privy Chamber
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1549
First Book of Common Prayer by Cranmer + Act of Uniformity, Rebellions - Kett's and Western, Inflationary pressures worsen, Fall of Somerset
3 of 52
1550
Northumberland becomes Lord President of the Council, repeal Sheep Tax, Tougher treason laws, Paulet appointed Lord Treasurer, Treaty of Boulogne
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1551
Lord Darce negotiates Scottish border, Government control grain supply
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1552
Second Book of Common Prayer + Act of Uniformity, Somerset executed, Black Rubic Proclomation, Tougher Treason Act, Edward regularly attends Privy Council
6 of 52
1553
Attack on Church Plate, 42 Articles (never published), Edward VI dies, Devise for the Succession, Mary I proclaimed Queen, Pole appointed Papal legate to England
7 of 52
1554
Execution of Lady Jane Grey, Wyatt's Rebellion, Marriage of Mary and Philip I
8 of 52
1555
Widespread Famine after harvest faliure, Heresy Act passed - burnings started, 12 Decrees, Reginald Pole becomes Archbishop of Canterbury, Reassessment of Crown lands raises £40,000 per year, Muscovy Company
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1556
Harvest faliure, Cranmer executed
10 of 52
1557
Flu epidemic, Pole's legatine commission revoked, War against France and Battle of St Quentin
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1558
Book of Rates, Flu epidemic, Loss of Calais, Mary dies, Accession of Elizabeth, Cecil appointed Secretary, Robert Dudley appointed Master of the Horse
12 of 52
1559
Elizabeth's corronation, Peace treaty of Cateau Cambresis, Settlement - Acts of Supremacy and Uniformity, Royal injunctions issued to clergy, MQS and Francis II, Matthew Parker Archbishop of Canterbury, aid to Lords of the Congregation, Scotland
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1560
Suspicious death of Amy Dudley, Treaty of Edinburgh
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1562
Military support for Huguenots, Crisis - Elizabeth gets Smallpox, Privy Council convince her not to meet MQS, Dutch Sea Beggars use British harbours to attack Spanish ships, John Hawkins' first expedition to the Americas
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1563
39 Articles, Convocation of Canterbury - beginings of Vestment Controversy, Foxe's Book of Martyrs, Elizabeth pressed to marry by Parliament
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1564
Treaty of Troyes
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1565
Dismissal of Thomas Sampson - Vestment controversy, Elizabeth 'disgusted' at the lack of obediance regarding vestments,
18 of 52
1566
Parker's Advertisements - disallowed 'diversity' - vestment controversy, Parliment press Elizabeth to marry
19 of 52
1567
MQS abdicates, Duke of Alba in control of the Netherlands
20 of 52
1568
MQS seeks refuge in England, William Allen founds Seminary college in Douai, John Hawkins' fleet blockaded at San Juan de Ulua by Spanish, Elizabeth impounds Spanish bullion ships in English ports
21 of 52
1569
Northern Rebellion
22 of 52
1570
Northern Rebellion suppressed, Civil war in Scotland + Elizabeth's involvement, Elizabeth excommunicated by Pope Pius V, Treason Act
23 of 52
1571
Laws against Catholics strengthened, William Strickland banned from Parliament, Ridolfi Plot, Cecil becomes Lord Burghley
24 of 52
1572
Reconstruction of the Council of the North with Puritan Huntingdon in charge, Northumberland executed, Treaty of Blois, Two Admonitions by Field + Wilcox and Cartwright
25 of 52
1573
Walsingham becomes Secretary of State
26 of 52
1574
Seminary Priests arrive
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1575
Edmund Grindal becomes Acrhbishop of Canterbury
28 of 52
1576
Grindal sends a letter to the Queen endorsing Prophesyings, MP Peter Wentworth imprisoned fo objecting to royal interferance in Parliament
29 of 52
1577
Grindal suspended on his endorsement of Prophesyings, Execution of seminary priest Cuthbert Mayne
30 of 52
1579
Marriage negotiations between Elizabeth and the Duke of Alencon
31 of 52
1580
Arrival of Jesuits in England
32 of 52
1581
Execution of Edmund Campion the Jesuit priest, Act to Retain her Magesty's Subjects in their Due Obedience says anyone withdrawing subjects from obedience is a traitor
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1582
Presbyterian 'classes' start in Essex
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1583
John Whitgift appointed Archbishop of Canterbury, Articles enforce conformity and obedience of the clergy, Throckmorton plot
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1584
'Bill and Book' Presbyterian proposal in Parliament by Turner, Expulsion of de Mendoza, Bond of Association
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1585
Act against Seminary and Jesuit Priests, Treaty of Nonsuch commits Elizabeth to military intervention in the Netherlands, War with Spain begins
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1586
Babington Plot, Treaty of Berwick, MQS tried and convicted of her complicity in the Babington Plot
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1587
'Book and Bill' proposals revived by Cope, Execution of MQS, Successful attack on Spanish fleet at Cadiz
39 of 52
1588
The Defeat of the Spanish Armada, Death of Leicester, 'Martin Marprelate' tracts published
40 of 52
1589
Portuguese expedition
41 of 52
1590
Death of Walsingham
42 of 52
1591
Death of Hatton, Robert Cecil promoted to Privy Council
43 of 52
1593
Execution of Barrow Greenwood and Penry, Act against Seditious Sectaries
44 of 52
1594
Tyrone Rebellion, Bad harvest
45 of 52
1596
Cecil Secretary of State, Worst Harvest of the Century
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1597
Death from bad harvests, Poor Law passed, Azores expedition, Parliamentary agitation over monopolies
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1598
Death of Burghley, Defeat of Bagenal at Yellow Ford
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1599
Cecil becomes Master of Wards, Return of Essex from Ireland
49 of 52
1601
Golden Speech, Rebellion and execution of Essex, Parliamenary agitation over monopolies, Revised poor law
50 of 52
1603
Elizabeth dies, succeeded by James VI of Scotland, Surrender of Tyrone
51 of 52
1604
War with Spain ends
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Enclosure commission established, Proclamations against enclosure, Inflationary pressures, Stanhope becomes Chief Gentleman of the Privy Chamber

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First Book of Common Prayer by Cranmer + Act of Uniformity, Rebellions - Kett's and Western, Inflationary pressures worsen, Fall of Somerset

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Northumberland becomes Lord President of the Council, repeal Sheep Tax, Tougher treason laws, Paulet appointed Lord Treasurer, Treaty of Boulogne

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Lord Darce negotiates Scottish border, Government control grain supply

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