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A timeline of the reign of Elizabeth I. Details of dates, figures and description of some key events.
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Elizabeth IKey Information
Date Event Key Figures Explanation
1533 Elizabeth born Henry VIII
Anne Boleyn
Act of Succession
changed to include
Elizabeth
1536 Anne Boleyn executed Elizabeth was 3 years old
Anne and Henry’s marriage was
seen as null and void
Elizabeth was illegitimate to the
thrown
1549 Elizabeth caught up in Duke of Somerset Had a possible relationship with
Somerset scandal accused of 33 counts of Somerset
treason
Somerset was Lord
protector of Edward VI
at the time
1554 Wyatts rebellion Mary I Elizabeth locked in the tower as
Philip of Spain a threat to Mary but was
released and not executed
1555 Muscovy Company FAILED
est.
Elizabeth’s coronation
1559
(Age 25)
1559 Act of Supremacy - Re-established Elizabeth as head of the church
- Elizabeth chose title ‘Supreme Governor’
- Churchmen had to give an oath to Elizabeth
- Commissioners were sent to investigate that it was
successful
Act of Uniformity - Set out rules about appearance of the churches
ELIZABETH’S RELIGIOUS - Practices from 1549 should still be followed
SETTLEMENT - Alter replaced with more protestant communion
Elizabeth’s Middleway table with catholic artifacts placed on it
bridging protestant and - Set out what priests should wear
catholic Royal Injunctions - Further instructions from previous acts
- 57 total
- Preachers had to be licenced by a bishop and
preach one service per month to keep their licence
Was it actually a middle or - Pilgrimages outlawed
was it more protestant than - No more alters could be destroyed
catholic? Prayer book - A compromise between protestant and catholic
- Merged 1549 and 1552 prayer books together
Exchange books on injunctions - Included middle ground language such as ‘body’
for super uniform and ‘remembrance’
Act of Exchange - Elizabeth was allowed to take property belonging
to bishops
- Was a threat to keep bishops in line
1559 Treaty of Câteu-
Cambresis ends war
with France
, Elizabeth I
Key Information
1560s Jenkinson explored
the south of Russia -
Persia
1560 Treaty of Edinburgh Mary of Guise (ruled in place French troops were
of Mary QoS who was too withdrawn from Scotland
young)
Protestant movement tried
to attack Mary of Guise and
Mary QoS was forced to flee
1562 Treaty of Hampton Elizabeth promised to help Fighting hognuts and
Court the French protestant rebels Catholics in French civil war
England intervenes in (Huguenots) (began 1562)
French Civil War
1562 John Hawkins went to Invested in by Earl of
Africa (slave trade) Leicester and Elizabeth
supplied ships
His 3rd voyage went wrong
and the fleet was blockaded
by Spain
1563 Thirty Nine Articles - Defining statement of Anglicanism (Elizabeth’s
religion of England)
- Welded catholic and protestant ideas to make
them appealing to the majority of the people
1563 Statute of Artificers - Act of parliament
Policy to boost the - Fix prices
economy - Impose maximum wages
- Create employment
- Boost economy
1563 Philip II banned His excuse for the Showed deterioration of Philip
import of English cloth banning was to protect and Elizabeth relations
to the Netherlands the Netherlands from
the plague and is Philip II rules both Spain and the
unhappy about English Netherlands
piracy at sea
1564 Treaty of Troyes
Peace with France
1566 Vestiarian Clergy members
Controversy disobeyed the Act of
Uniformity
1568 Mary QoS placed
under house arrest
1568 Spain expelled English Deterioration with Replaced with a more hard-line
ambassador from relations with Spain catholic
Madrid
Shows disapproval of England
(Linked to Spanish and Protestantism (even
Armada) Middleway)
1569-70 Northern rebellion Plotted for Mary QoS to marry
Duke of Norfolk
3,800 foot solders
1600 horsemen
450 rebels executed and issued
penal laws
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