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1553 |
7 September: Elizabeth is born at Greenwich, England |
1556 |
May 15: Her mother, Anne Boleyn tried
for treason, adultery and incest |
1537 |
12 October: Jane Seymour dies following
the premature birth of her son, the future King Edward VI |
1540 |
King Henry VIII marries Anne of Cleves
but the marriage is quickly annulled |
1542 |
February 13: Catherine Howard is
executed for adultery greatly distressing the nine-year-old
Elizabeth |
1543 |
July 12 - King Henry marries Katherine Parr his sixth and last wife |
1547 |
January 28: King Henry VIII the father
of Queen Elizabeth I dies on |
1548 |
Elizabeth leaves Katherine Parr's
household under questionable circumstances because of rumors of
an affair with Thomas Seymour |
1551 |
Princess Elizabeth returns to the court of her half-brother, the young king |
1553 |
July 6: The young King Edward VI dies of
tuberculosis leaving the throne to 'the Lady Jane and her heirs
male' breaking English Law (Act of Succession) and going against
the wishes of his dead father |
1554 |
February 12: Lady Jane Grey and her
husband Guildford Dudley executed at the Tower of London |
1555 |
England returns to Roman Catholicism and
Protestants are persecuted and 300 are burnt at the stake leads
to Queen Mary I being called Bloody Mary |
1558 |
November 17: Death of Queen Mary I |
1559 |
Jan 13: She is crowned Queen of England |
1560 |
Jul. 6: Treaty of Edinburgh between
England, France, and Scotland |
1561 |
August 19: Return of Mary Stuart ( Mary
Queen of Scots ) to Scotland |
1562 |
Queen Elizabeth almost dies of Smallpox |
1563 |
Establishment of the Anglican Church |
1564 |
The Queen takes share of profit from John Hawkins slave trade |
1565 |
Mary Queen of Scots marries her 19-year-old cousin Henry Stewart, Lord Darnley; aged 22 |
1566 |
March 9: The Murder of David Rizzio,
secretary of Mary Queen of Scots |
1567 |
February 10: Murder of Lord Darnley,
husband of Mary Queen of Scots |
1568 |
The Catholic Mary Queen of Scots flees to England and is imprisoned by Elizabeth I at Fotheringay Castle as a Catholic threat to her throne |
1569 |
The Nevilles of Durham and Percys of
Northumberland plot to overthrow Elizabeth and reinstate Roman
Catholicism in “The Rising of the North” but she exonerates
Mary Queen of Scots from the charges made against her |
1570 |
The excommunication of Queen Elizabeth I by the Catholic Church |
1571 |
January 2: Marriage negotiations
between Elizabeth and Henry, Duke of Anjou, which eventually
fail |
1572 |
August 24: St Bartholomew's Day massacre where French Protestants were massacred by French Catholics in Paris cause panic in England with fears of a Catholic invasion |
1573 |
Sir Francis Drake captures a shipment of
silver destined for Spain |
1575 |
November 14: The Queen of England declines to accept the sovereignty of the Netherlands |
1577 |
Alliance between England and Netherlands and Francis Drake sets sails for his round the world voyage |
1578 |
September 21: Robert Dudley secretly marries Lady Lettice Knollys and is banished from court |
1579 |
June 17: Sir Francis Drake claims
England’s sovereignty over New Albion (California) |
1580 |
September 26: Francis Drake returns to England in triumph |
1581 |
March 18: English Parliament passes
strict legislation against Roman Catholics with heavy fines for
hearing Mass |
1584 |
William of Orange is murdered and
England sends aid to the Netherlands |
1585 |
August 14: Queen Elizabeth declines
offers by the Dutch commission for sovereignty of the Low
Countries but issues a declaration taking the Netherlands under
her protection |
1586 |
The Babbington Plot , a conspiracy
against Elizabeth I involving Mary Queen of Scots. The leader of
the plot was Anthony Babbington |
1587 |
February 8: Execution of Mary Queen of
Scots |
1588 |
August 8: The Spanish Armada of 132
ships is defeated by the English fleet of 34 ships and 163 armed
merchant vessels led by Lord Howard of Effingham, Sir Francis
Drake, and Sir John Hawkins |
1593 |
London Theatres, including the Globe,
close due to the Bubonic Plague (The Black Death) |
1596 |
English fleet under the Earl of Essex and Lord Howard of Effingham capture Spanish Cadiz |
1597 |
Irish rebellion under Hugh O'Neill, Earl
of Tyrone (finally put down 1601) |
1599 |
The Queen's favourite Robert, Earl of
Essex was placed in charge of a large English army to suppress
Irish rebels but Essex signs an unauthorized truce with the Earl
of Tyrone. He is then |
1600 |
Queen Elizabeth I grants charter to East India Company |
1601 |
Elizabethan Poor Law charges the
parishes with providing for the needy |
1603 |
Queen Elizabeth dies on 24 March 1603 of of blood poisoning. She is succeeded by James I of England, James VI of Scotland, (great-grandson of Henry VIII) |
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