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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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