Social changes elizabeth

1547-1572

The period when all four dukes (Somerset Northumberland Suffolk and Norfolk) died as traitors.

After 1572

The year after which Elizabeth I created no more dukes.

4 million

The approximate total population of England by the end of Elizabeth's reign.

150000

The estimated population of London at the end of the reign.

5000

The population threshold that few provincial cities (besides Norwich and Bristol) exceeded.

After 1570

The point when landed incomes began to increase significantly.

1547 (Vagrancy)

The year of an extremely repressive and unenforceable act against vagrancy.

1572 (Poor Relief)

The Act establishing that local ratepayers must pay a rate for the relief of their own poor.

1572 (Punishment)

The act adding branding to the range of punishments for the undeserving poor.

1576

The Poor Law Act that first attempted to create a national system of poor relief.

1597 and 1601

The years of the acts that completed the Tudor legislative process for poor relief.

1601

The Poor Law Act designating the parish as the institution to raise rates and appoint overseers.

1834

The year until which the Elizabethan Poor Law system remained substantially intact.

1597 (Vagrancy)

The year of an act stating first-time vagrant offenders should be whipped and repeat offenders executed.

11th Century

The century since which the 'Old English' had been settled in Ireland.

1560

The year Elizabeth was proclaimed Supreme Governor of the Church of Ireland.

1569

The year of the first rebellion in the south of Ireland against English rule.

1573

The year of the second rebellion in the south of Ireland against English rule.

1579

The year of the third rebellion in the south of Ireland against English rule.

1582

The year of the fourth rebellion in the south of Ireland (suppressed brutally by Lord Grey of Wilton).

1585 (Ireland)

The year Hugh O'Neill was made Earl of Tyrone.

1595

The year the Earl of Tyrone rose up in rebellion in Ulster.

1596

The year of the Spanish Armada which included an Irish contingent.

August 1598

The month and year of the Battle of Yellow Ford where Tyrone took control of much of Ireland.

1599

The year the Earl of Essex was sent to Ireland as Lord Lieutenant.

September 1601

The date over 3000 Spanish troops landed in Kinsale to support the Irish rebels.

24 December 1601

The date of the English victory at the Battle of Kinsale.

March 1603

The date Tyrone negotiated peace with Lord Mountjoy after Elizabeth's death.

70 years

The length of previous policy James I returned to by entrusting rule to local Irish nobility.

£4000

The annual pension James VI of Scotland accepted from Elizabeth.

1585 (North)

The year Francis Russell was murdered in a border incident.

1569-1570

The years of the Northern Rebellion (specifically in Durham and the North Riding of Yorkshire).

9 November 1569

The date the Northern Rebellion began.

14 November 1569

The date rebels seized Durham and heard Mass in the cathedral.

14 December 1569

The date Barnard Castle fell to the Northern rebels.

January 1570

The date Leonard Dacre restarted the rebellion in Cumberland.

1572 (Execution)

The year the Earl of Northumberland was executed.

Mid-1590s

The period of severe harvest failure rising prices and the plague outbreak.

1596 (England)

The year of the Oxfordshire Rising involving a group of 4 men.