GCSE History Workbook on Elizabethan England, good for last-minute catch-up for the whole Elizabethan England module. A guaranteed Grade 9 (A*) Exam Style Questions and Answers included to practice.
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, Timeline of Early Elizabethan England
1558-1588
1558 Elizabeth I is crowned Queen of England after the death of her sister Mary I.
1559 Elizabeth implements her religious settlement, including the Act of Supremacy, Act
of Uniformity and the Royal Injunctions.
1560 Treaty of Edinburgh was signed.
1566 Dutch Revolt.
1568 Mary, Queen of Scots, flees to England from Scotland.
1569 The Revolt of the Northern Earls to place Mary, Queen of Scots on the throne.
1570 Pope Pius V excommunicates Elizabeth from the Catholic Church.
1571 The Ridolfi Plot.
1572 Vagabonds Act.
1576 Poor Relief Act.
The Spanish Fury and Pacification of Ghent.
1577-80 Francis Drake, circumnavigates the world and is knighted in 1580 on the deck of the
Golden Hind.
1583 The Throckmorton Plot
1584 Treaty of Joinville
1585 All Catholic Priests were ordered to leave England.
Treaty of Nonsuch
War begins with England and Spain
First English colony in Virginia is established.
1586 The Babington Plot
Surviving colonists abandon Virginia and return to England.
1587 Mary, Queen of Scots was executed.
Colony in Roanoke is established.
Drake ‘singes the King of Spain’s ‘beard’ by leading an assault on the Spanish fleet
in Cadiz harbour.
1588 Philip II of Spain launches the Armada but the Spanish are ultimately defeated at
The Battle of Gravelines.
1590 English sailors arrive at Roanake to find it abandoned.
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