Eliz Dates

Eliz Dates

Elizabeth becomes queen

1558

Henry VIII splits from the Catholic church and forms the CofE

1533

Protestant reformation in Europe

1517

Elizabeth’s religious settlement (Acts of Supremacy and Uniformity)

1559

clear that Puritans were not wearing the correct vestments

1565

Book of Advertisements published

1566

exhibition held in London to show what priests should wear

1566

Pope declared that Catholics in England should not go to Protestant services

1566

war with Catholic and Protestant France ended with peace

1562

Treaty of Troyes; formal understanding that Elizabeth cannot get Calais back

1564

Philip cloth trade embargo against Eliz and England

1563

Dutch revolt begins

1566

Philip sends Alba and 10,000 men to crush Dutch revolt

1567

Dutch revolt crushed

1568

Elizabeth gave shelter to sea beggars

1567

Genoese Loan

1568

Treaty of Edinburgh

1560

MQS married her second husband Henry Stuart, Lord Darley

1565

MQS gave birth to her son James

1566

MQS husband Darnley murdered

1567

MQS imprisoned by Scottish Protestant lords, escaped and then fled to England

1568

court case in England against MQS

Oct 1568- Jan 1569

Revolt of the Northern Earls

1569

Pope excommunicates Elizabeth

1570

Ridolfi Plot

1571

priests begun sneaking into England

1571

recusants fined £20 and treason to try to convert someone to Catholicism

1581

Throckmorton plot

1583

Throckmorton tortured

Nov 1583

Throckmorton executed

May 1584

Bond of Association

1584

law passed made helping or sheltering a catholic priest punishable by death

1585

Babington Plot

1586

Babington wrote to MQS about the plot

July 1586

MQS tried and sentenced to death

October 1586

MQS executed

1587

The Act of the Preservation of the Queen’s Safety

1585

Elizabeth signed MQS’s death warrant

February 1587

Walsingham became secretary of state

1573

year 6 priests were tortured

1580

Bond of Association

1583

Drake capturing ships and cargoes

1570-71

Elizabeth hired Drake as a privateer and he captured £40,000 worth of Spanish silver

1572

official plan to sail around South America to Pacific coastline and get gold, silver and spices, while also destroying Spanish colonies

November 1577

Drake returned from the voyage to the New World and New Albion

1580

Drake’s circumnavigation of the globe

1577-1580

Elizabeth proposed marriage to the Duke of Alencon

1572

Spanish fury

1576

sacking of Antwerp

November 1576

Pacification of Ghent

November 1576, 4 days after the sacking of Antwerp

Don Juan arrives in Netherlands

1577

Duke of Parma sent to the Netherlands

1579

Alencon went to England and Elizabeth gave him 70,000 troops to use in the Netherlands

1581

Philip gained Portugal

1580

death of Alencon

10 June 1584

death of William of Orange

10 July 1584

Treaty of Joinville signed

1584

French King signed up to the Treaty of Joinville

1585

Treaty of Nonsuch

1585

Treaty of Berwick

1586

Drake ordered by Elizabeth to go to New World and destroy ports, trade, ships, colonies etc

October 1585

Dudley’s troops arrived in the Netherlands

December 1585

Dudley took the title Governor General of Netherlands

1586

Singeing of the Kings Beard

March 1587

Spanish Armada

1588

Statute of Artificers

1563

Vagabonds Act

1572

Poor Relief Act

1576

Czechoslovakia free

October 1989

revolution in Romania

December 1989

Hungary declares free elections

1990

forced movement of East Germans into Hungary

October 1989

E German government announced travel to W Berlin and fall of Berlin Wall

9th November 1989

Berlin formally united

3 October 1990

Gorbachev nobel peace prize

1990

coup to remove Gorbachev from power

19th August 1991

end of coup

21 August 1991