History Paper 2 Dates

Elizabeth I was born

1533

Who set up companies like Tesco and M&S

Russian Jews who left because of Pogroms

Anne Boleyn executed for treason

1536

Henry VIII died, replaced with Edward

1547

Edward died, Lady Jane Grey became queen (for 8 days)

1553

Mary I became queen of England

9th July 1553

Lady Jane Grey and her husband beheaded

12th February 1554

Elizabeth imprisoned by Mary I as a threat

1554

Elizabeth became queen after Mary I's death

17th November 1558

Elizabeth coronated at Westminster

15th January 1559

Elizabeth I died

24th March 1603

Elizabeth I buried at Westminster

28th April 1603

William Cecil life

1520 - 1598

Francis Walsingham life

1532 - 1590

Walsingham became a queen's advisor

1573

Elizabeth got smallpox and nearly died

1562

Revolt against Elizabeth I in Ireland

1559

Northern Rebellion

1569

Duke of Norfolk executed after the Northern Rebellion

2nd June 1572

Ridolfi Plot

1571

Throckmorton Plot

1583

Babington Plot

1586

Robert Devereux (would become Earl of Essex) born

1566

Earl of Essex introduced to queen

1587

Essex made privy councillor

1595

Essex had military success against the Spanish

1596

Essex and Elizabeth had an argument over the situation in Ireland

1598

Essex made Lord Lieutenant of Ireland by the queen

January 1599

Essex Rebellion

February 1601

Essex executed after the failed rebellion

25th February 1601

Population increase from 2.8 million in _ to 4 million in _

1558 - 1603

Bess of Hardwick born

1527

William Shakespare life

1564 - 1616

Richard Burbage life

1568 - 1619

Red Lion opened, becoming the first permanent theatre

1567

The Globe Theatre opened by the Burbage brothers

1599

Globe first destroyed by a fire

1613

The reformation (many churches closed)

1536 - 1540

Henry VIII began mixing silver/gold for coins with cheap metals

1542

England hit by bad harvests

1594 - 1598

London's population grew from 60,000 in _ to over 200,000 in _

1500 - 1600

200,000 killed by flu

1556

Thomas Harman published a book that drew attention to some scams of the poor

1567

Beggars punished in stocks, and sent back to home towns, from

1495

Beggars were publicly whipped from

1531

'Act for setting the poor on work' - local authorities had to find work for poor

1576

York corporation began issuing beggar licenses

1515

Master beggar appointed in York to keep the rest 'in check'

from 1528

Authorities conducted a survey in Norwich to find that 80% were living in poverty

1570

Ipswich introduced a licensing system for beggars

1569

First ever 'Poor Laws' introduced

1601

Poor Laws remained in effect until they were reviewed in

1834

Francis Drake life

1540 - 1569

Francis Drake knighted

1581

Francis Drake circumnavigates the world

1577 - 1580

Francis Drake sets off on his exploration

December 1577

After rumours of mutiny, Drake executed his friend Thomas Doughty for leading it on arrival in South America

June - July 1578

Drake becomes the first Englishman to sail through the dangerous Straits of Magellan

September 1578

Drake destroys 2 ships on his journey, to avoid separation

June 1579

After sailing through the Indonesian islands, Drake navigates the feared Cape of Good Hope

March - June 1580

Drake returns to Plymouth

September 1580

Muscovy company created (trade of Moscow)

1555

Eastland company created (trade of Scandinavia/the Baltic)

1579

Levant company created (trade of Turkey/the Middle East)

1581

Elizabeth sent Ralph Fitch to India, to tell her how profitable it was

1582

EIC established

1600

John Hawkins and Drake kidnapped several West Africans and sold them as slaves in South America

1564

John Hawkins life

1532 - 1595

John Hawkins became involved in the slave trade by stealing some from the Portuguese

1562

Sir Walter Raleigh life

1552 - 1618

Sir Walter Raleigh banished from court for 5 years by Elizabeth for his secret marriage to one of the ladies in waiting

1592

Elizabeth gave Raleigh permission to explore and colonise any land not ruled by Christians

1584

Pope Pius V issued 'Regnans in Excelsis' (the papal bull), excommunicating Elizabeth

April 1570

Law passed, making it treason to attend Catholic mass

1581

Second act passed, making it treason to have a Catholic priest in your home

1585

Catholics could no longer travel more than 5 miles from their homes - 'Statue of Confinement'

1593

Catholic cardinal William Allen, established a seminary at Douai, Spanish Netherlands

1568

First priest, trained by William Allen, to convert England back to Catholicism, returned to England

1574

Cardinal William Allen life

1532 - 1594

William Allen became Cardinal by recommendation of King Philip II of Spain

1587

Edmund Campion life

1540 - 1581

Edmund Campion (catholic) leaves England to join the Jesuits

1573

Jesuits began a mission in England

1580

Campion began preaching as soon as he arrived back in England

June 1580

Campion arrested and taken to the Tower

July 1580

Campion found guilty of treason (for preaching)

November 1581

Campion dragged through London before being hanged

December 1581

Recusancy fines introduced for Catholics (for not going to Church)

1571

Recusancy fines increased to £20

1581

Bishops who refused to wear the new gowns ('too Catholic') would lose their jobs

from 1556

Meetings (prophesying) became popular (Puritans)

from 1570s

New separatist church established in Norwich by Robert Browne

1580

Second separatist church set up in London

1592

Archbishop of Canterbury, John Whitgift, introduced harsh new laws on Puritans

1583

(priest/Puritan) John Field life

1545 - 1588

John Field wrote 'A view of Popish abuses yet remaining in the English Church'

1572

Mary Queen of Scots became queen at 8 days old

1542

Mary Queen of Scots married the heir to the French throne

1558

French king (Mary's husband) dies

1561

Mary Queen of Scots and Lord Darnely's infant son, James, became king of Scotland

1567