Elizabeth I overview timeline

1558

Sir William Cecil appointed secretary

1558

Loss of Calais

1558

Influenza epidemic continues

January 1559

Coronation of Elizabeth

April 1559

Treaty of Cateau-Cambresis signed

1559

Act of Supremacy

1559

Act of Uniformity

1559

Opposition to settlement from House of Lords

1559

Matthew Parker appointed Archbishop of Canterbury

1559

New Book of Common Prayer

1559

Act of Exchange

1559

Royal Injunctions

1559

Elizabeth aids the Lords of the Congregation in Scotland

1559

Philip asks for Elizabeth's hand in marriage

1559

Shane O'Neill's rebellion in Ulster starts

1559

MQS becomes queen of France

February 1560

Treaty of Berwick

July 1560

Treaty of Edinburgh signed

August 1560

MQs returns to Scotland from France

December 1560

Death of King Francis II of France

1561

Undebased currency completely restored

September 1562

Treaty of Hampton Court

1562

Treaty of Troyes

1562

John Hawkins sailed to West Africa

1562

Pope Pius IV prohibits Catholics from attending Anglican services

1562

Elizabeth seriously ill with smallpox

1562

Military support for the Hugenots

March 1563

Publication of Foxe's Book of Martyrs

1563

Elizabeth urged to marry

1563

39 articles issued

1563

Banned import of English cloth to the Netherlands

January 1566

Pope Pius V elected

June 1566

Birth of James VI

1566

Elizabeth again pressured to marry

1566

Parker's Advertisements

1566

Vestiarian Controversy

1566

Major rebellion against Spain in Netherlands

July 1567

MQS forced to abdicate

1567

Shane O'Neill's rebellion in Ulster ends

May 1568

MQS flees to England

1568

Clash between Spanish fleet and English fleet under John Hawkins

November 1568

Elizabeth seizes Philip II's Genoese bullion

1568

John Hawkins attacked at San Juan de Ulua

November 1569

Northern Earls rebellion

1569

Suspension of trade between England and Sapin

1569

Fitzgerald rebellion in Munster starts

1570

Elizabeth excommunicated by Pope Pius V

1570

Elizabeth enters into first round of marriage negotiations with Duke of Anjou

1570

Cartwright delivers Spring Lectures

February 1571

Cecil raised to the peerage as Lord Burghley

1571

39 articles confirmed

1571

Strickland launched parliamentary campaign in favour of Presbyterianism

1571

Ridolfi plot

1571

Treason Act

1571

Elizabeth encouraged privateers to co-operate with Netherlands privateers in raiding Spanish ships

April 1572

Treaty of Blois excecuted

June 1572

Duke of Norfolk excecuted

1572

Marriage negotiations with Francis, Duke of Alecon

1572

Francis Drake led an expedition to Panama

1572

Fitzgerald rebellion in Munster ends

1573

Sir Francis Walsingham appointed secretary of state

1574

Arrival of first Catholic missionary priests

1575

Edmund Grindal appointed Archbishop of Canterbury

1575

Elizabeth offered herself as a mediator between William of Orange and the Spanish

February 1577

Spain accepted terms of the Perpetual Edict

June 1577

Grindal suspended as new archbishop due to clash over suppression of prophesying by Elizabeth

1577

Francis Drake sets sail again to the South American coast

1578

Spanish victory in the Battle of Gembloux

1579

Marriage negotiations between Elizabeth and Duke of Anjou

1579-80

Philip aids unsuccessful expeditions to Ireland

1580

Arrival of first Jesuit missionaries

1581

Elizabeth funded Anjou to intervene against Spain in the Netherlands

1581

Act to Retain the Queen's Majesty's Subjects in their Due Obedience

1581

Browne founded the first separatist church

1583

Throckmorton Plot

1583

Fitzgerald rebellion in Munster ends

1583

John Whitgift appointed Archbishop of Canterbury

1583

Whitgift's Articles issued

July 1584

William of Orange assassinated by a Catholic

December 1584

Treaty of Joinville

1584

Expulsion of Spanish Ambassador

1584

Walter Raleigh established colony on Roanoke Island

August 1585

Treaty of Nonsuch

1585

Defensive league with James VI against Spain

1585

Parry Plot

1585

Acts against Jesuits and Seminary Priests

August 1585

Treaty of Nonsuch

1585

Fleet under Sir Francis Drake sent to raid Spanish shipping off Caribbean and release ships held by Philip II

July 1586

Treaty of Berwick

1586

Babington Plot

October 1586

MQS convicted of treason

February 1587

MQS excecuted

April 1587

Success for Francis Drake at Cadiz

1587

MP Cope attempted to reform settlement

1588

Earl of Leicester died

October 1588

First 'Marprelate' tracts published

August 1588

Spanish Armada

1589

Elizabeth sends troops to Normandy

April 1590

Death of Walsingham

November 1591

Death of Sir Christopher Hatton