All Key Dates Flashcards

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1483 (one thing)

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  • Richard III usurps the throne; disappearance of the Princes of the Tower, Buckingham’s revolt against Richard III
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1485 (four things) - vital

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  • August 22nd ~ Henry Tudor defeated Richard III a the Battle of Bosworth and became the first Tudor king of England
  • 30 October ~ Henry’s coronation
  • 7 November ~ Henry’s first parliament
  • Henry dated back his reign by one day to the 21st of August so he was no able to declare his opponents traitors
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1486 (six things) - vital

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  • 18 January ~ Henry married Elizabeth of York
  • March ~ Henry begins first progress to the Midlands and the North
  • April ~ Challenge to Henry VII by Francis Lovell and the Stafords
  • 19 September: Birth of Prince Arthur
  • Henry’s right to be king confirmed by the papacy
  • November ~ Rumors that - - Lambert Simnel is claiming to be the Earl of Warwick
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1487 (four things) - vital all on pretenders

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  • Pretender ~ Lambert Simnel
  • February ~ Henry parades the real Earl of Warwick in London
  • April ~ De la Pole escapes to Burgundy, Henry begins to raise troops
  • May ~ De la Pole and Lovell in Ireland, Simnel crowned king in Dublin
  • June ~ Rebel army defeated at the Battle of Stoke by Henry VII, the last battle of the War of the Roses
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1489 (two things) - vital

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  • Tax revolt in Yorkshire, Yorkshire Rebellion

- Treaty of Medina del Campo;

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1490 (one thing)

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Jasper Tudor created head of the Council of Wales and the Marches

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1491 (one thing) - pretender

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Fall of Brittany; emergence of Perkin Warbeck in Cork claiming to be Richard, Duke of York

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1492 (two things)

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  • Treaty of Etaples

- Warbeck in France

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1495 (five things) - vital + sort of turning point

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  • Vagabonds and Beggars Act
  • JPs given powers to arrest suspects and replace corrupt jurors
  • Execution of Sir William Stanley for treason
  • 1493-95 ~ Warbeck in Burgundy and the Holy Roman Empire
  • July ~ Warbeck forced to Scotland and then Cornwall in September
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1497 (one thing) - rebellion

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Rebellion in Cornwall

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1498 (one thing) - vital

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Warbeck arrested and taken to the Tower

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1499 (one thing) - vital

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  • The execution of Perkin Warbeck and the Earl of Warwick, rivals to Henry for the English throne
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1504 (one thing)

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Parliamentary opposition to Henry VII’s taxation

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1509 (two things) - vital

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  • Henry VII dies and is replaced by his son Henry VIII

- Henry had 6 parliamentary sessions over 24 years

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1511 (one thing)

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1511-12 ~ First French War

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1513 (one thing) - Turning point

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The introduction of the Tudor subsidy, a more modern form of taxation

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1514 (one thing) - religion

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Thomas Wosley made Archbishop of York

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1515 (three things)

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  • Hunne case causes anti clerical feeling in parliament
  • November ~ Thomas Wosley appointed Cardinal by the Pope
  • December ~ Wosley made Lord Chancellor
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1518 (one thing) - vital - religion

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Thomas Wosley appointed papal legate

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1523 (one thing) - money

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Parliamentary opposition to high levels of taxation

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1525 (Two things)

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  • Princess Mary and Henry Fitzroy sent to Wales and the North as figureheads
  • The Amicable Grant
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1526 (one thing) - reforms

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Eltham Ordinances

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1527 (one thing)

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Henry begins annulment proceedings

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1529 (two things) - vital

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  • Fall of Wolsey; beginning of the Reformation of Parliament
  • Mortuaries Act
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1531 (one thing)

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Vagabonds Act (Poor Law)

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1532 (three things)

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  • Act in Conditional Restraints of Annates
  • Submission of the clergy
  • More resigns as Lord Chancellor; Thomas Cromwell becomes the king’s chief adviser
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1533 (four things) - vital

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  • Thomas Cranmer is made Archbishop of Canterbury
  • January ~ Anne Boleyns’s pregnancy is announced, henry marries Anne in secret
  • April ~ Act in Restraint of Appeals
  • May ~ Henry’s marriage to Catherine of Aragon is annulled by Thomas Cranmer
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1534 (four things) - vital for religious reasons

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  • Act of Supremacy made Henry VIII Head of the Church in England instead of the pope
  • Collection of the 1534 subsidy
  • Succession Act
  • Treason Act
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1535 (one thing) - Turning point

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First Law in Wales Act unifies Welsh and English government

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1536 (four things) - some vital

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  • Act for Extinguishing the Authority of the Bishop of Rome
  • Act of Ten Articles; Cromwell’s injunctions to the Clergy; -
  • Act for the Dissolution of the Smaller Monasteries
  • Lincolnshire rebellion followed by The Pilgrimage of Grace: 40,000 rebels protest against Henry VII’s religious policy
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1537 (three things) - vital

Turning point

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  • January ~ Bigod’s rising
  • The reorganisation of the Council of the North creates a more effective government in the region
  • Council of the North re-established
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1539 (one thing)

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Second Act for the dissolution of the monasteries passed in parliament

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1540 (two things) - turning point

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  • The reorganisation of the Privy Council creates a more modern, professional Council to advise the monarch and run day-to-day affairs
  • Execution of Cromwell
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1541 (two things)

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  • Unrest in the North; Henry VIII visits York

- Irish chieftains acknowledge Henry VIII as King of Ireland

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1542 (one thing) turning point - governance

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Second Law in Wales Act

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1547 (three things) - vital

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  • Henry VIII dies, the accession of Edward VI
  • Henry VIII had 9 parliamentary sessions over 38 years
    As Edward was young, Edward Seymour becomes Lord Protector
  • Vagrancy Act
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1548 (two things)

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  • Failure of John Hales’ anti-enclosure bills

- Enclosure commission issued by Somerset, but unsuccessful

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1549 (five things) - some vital

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  • Enclosure riots in the Midlands and South East lead to Kett’s rebellion (June- August) which poses a serious threat to the social and economic structures of Tudor England
  • 1549 Radical religious reform including the First Prayer Book
  • This led to the Western rebellion (or Prayer Book rebellion)
  • JPs ordered to take inventories of parish goods and prosecute anyone found to have stolen them
  • Somerset replaced by Lord President Northumberland
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1552 (four things)

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  • Second Book of Common Prayer published
  • Poor Law Act
  • Act of Parliament laid down that all alehouses had to be licensed by JPs
  • JPs ordered to enforce the Second Prayer Book
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1553 (two things) - vital

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  • Edward VI dies, accession of Mary Tudor after the defeat of Lady Jane Grey conspiracy
  • Edward VI had 4 parliamentary session over 6 years
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1554 (two things) - vital religion and rebellion

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  • Repeal of the Act of Supremacy; England returns to Rome

- Wyatt rebellion; execution of Northumberland and Lady Jane Grey

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1555 (two things) - vital

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  • Parliamentary opposition to the exiles bill

- Mary restores the Pope as head of the Church

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1556 (two things) - religion and other

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  • The Earl of Sussex begins policy of plantation in Ireland

- Execution of Archbishop Cranmer; Cardinal Reginald - Pope appointed as Archbishop of Canterbury instead

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1558 (three things) -vital

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  • Mary I dies, accession of Elizabeth
  • Mary held 4 parliamentary sessions over 5 years
  • Second Act of Supremacy and Act of Uniformity
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1559 (Four things) - vital - religion

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  • 31 March ~ Disputation between protestants and catholics leads to a protestant victory and imprisonment of two bishops
  • 2 April ~ Treaty of Cateau-Cambresis between England and France
  • April ~ Supremacy and Uniformity bill passed
  • June ~ Publication of Injunctions to the Clergy
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1561 (one thing) - monarchy

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Mary, Queen of Scots returns to Scotland

47
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1562 (one thing) - Vital - religion

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Convocation passes the Thirty-Nine Articles but Elizabeth surpasses Article 29 until 1571

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1563 (three things) - turning point - governance

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  • Statute of Artificers passed: this is a first attempt to regulate wages and employment
  • Statute of Artificers made JPs responsible for fixing local wages
  • Act for the Relief of the Poor made JPs responsible for supervising the collection of poor relief donations
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1566 (two things) - religion and monarchs

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  • The ‘vestment controversy’ leads to the ‘Book of Advertisements’
  • Birth of James VI of Scotland
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1567 (one thing) - foreign policy

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Arrival of Spanish troops to suppress Dutch Revolt

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1568 (one thing)

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May ~ Mary Queen of Scots arrives in England posing a threat to Elizabeth’s position as Queen of England

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1569 (one thing) - Vital

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  • The revolt of the Northern Earls supports Mary and is a reaction to Elizabeth’s policies in the North of England
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1570 (three things) - one vital

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  • Revolt of the Northern Earls subsides
  • Publication of papal bull ‘regnans in Excelsis’ that excommunicated Elizabeth I
  • Introduction of English-style councils in Connaught and Munster
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1571 (two things)

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  • Treason Act; Act against bulls from Rome

- Ridolfi Plot

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1572 (three things)

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  • Poor Law Act
  • Parliament made JPs responsible for listing the poor in each parish
  • Massacre of St Bartholomew’s Eve; execution of the -Dukes of Norfolk and Northumberland
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1574 (two things)

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  • 1574-76 ~ Failure of English plantations in Ulster

- Arrival of first seminary priests in England

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1576 (two things)

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  • Peter Wentworth challenges Elizabeth in parliament

- Poor Law Act

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1577 (two things)

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  • Elizabeth suspends Edmund Grindal, Archbishop of Canterbury
  • Execution of first seminary priest, Cuthbert Mayne
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1579 (one thing)

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  • 1579-83 ~Rebellion in Munster and plantation of Munster begins
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1580 (two things)

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  • Philip II annexes Portugal

- Arrival of first Jesuit priests, Robert Parsons and Edmund Campion

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1581 (one thing)

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Act for the Queen’s Safety; Act against Jesuits and Seminary Priests

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1583 (one thing)

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Throckmorton plot

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1584 (one thing)

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Assassination of William of Orange

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1585 (two things) - Vital

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  • The Lord Lieutenant system becomes permanent, improving England’s military organisation
  • England enters war with Spain
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1586 (one thing)

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Babington Plot

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1587 (two things) - Vital

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  • Antony Cope and Peter Wentworth attempt to introduce their own Prayer Book through parliament
  • Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots
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1588 (one thing) - Vital

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The Spanish Armada is launched, an attempt by the Catholic Phillip of Spain to undermine Elizabeth’s control of England

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1594 (one thing) - Vital

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Outbreak of Tyrone’s revolt in the Ulster against English government policy in Ireland

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1596 (one thing) - Vital

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English expedition to Cadiz and second Spanish Armada

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1598 (one thing) - tuning point

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Act of Relief of the Poor creates an improved system of provision for the poor, Vagabonds Act

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1599 (one thing)

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Earl of Essex sent to Ireland

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1600 (one thing)

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Mountjoy sent to Ireland

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1601 (three things)

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  • Act for the Relief of the Poor
  • Spanish Force lands at Kinsale; Tyrone defeated
  • Essex rebellion
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1603 (two things)

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  • The death of Elizabeth I brings an end to the Tudor dynasty. Tyrone’s revolt is ended with a peace treaty
  • Elizabeth held 10 parliamentary sessions over 45 years .