Dates Flashcards
1558
Elizabeth crowned queen
1559
Religious settlement:
- act of supremacy
- act of uniformity
1563
Statute of artificiers-ensure poor reilief was collected by introducing imprisonment for people who didn’t pay and fines to people who didn’t collect it.
1568
Mary Queen of Scots arrives in England (and is imprisoned by Elizabeth)
1569
Northern rebellion
1570
Papal bull excommunicated Elizabeth
1571
Ridolfi plot
1572
Vagabonds act-established national poor rate and punishment of vagrants
1574
Catholic priest first smuggled to England to encourage recusancy
1576
Poor relief act-divided the poor into impotent and able-bodied
1577-80
Drake’s circumnavigation of the globe
1583
Throckmorton plot
1585
Treaty of Nonsuch put England at war with Spain
1586
Babington plot
1587
Mary Queen of Scot’s execution