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1
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when did HVIII, become king and marry Catherine of Aragon?

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1509

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when was Mary I born?

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1516

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when was William Cecil born?

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1520

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when was Francis Walsingham born?

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1532

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when did HVIII divorce Catherine of Aragon & marry Anne Boleyn?

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1533

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when were Liz and Robert Dudley born?

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1533

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when did HVIII marry Jane Seymour?

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1536

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when was Edward VI born?

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1537

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when was the dissolution of the monasteries?

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1536-41

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when was Christopher Hatton born?

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1540

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11
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when was Drake born?

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c.1540

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when did MQoS become queen (at 6 days old)?

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1542

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when was the new Act of Succession?

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1544

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when did HVIII die and Edward VI become king?

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1547

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when did Edward VI die and Mary I become queen?

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1553

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when was Liz accused of conspiring against Mary I?

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1554

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17
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When was the Muscovy Company est.?

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1555

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when did Philip II become king of Spain?

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1556

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19
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when did Mary I and Liz become queen?

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1558

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20
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when was William Cecil made Secretary of State?

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November 1558

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21
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when did Francis Walsingham become an MP?

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1558

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when did MQoS marry the heir to the french throne, Francis II?

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1558

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23
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when did Drake begin working for the Hawkins?

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1558

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24
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when was the Act of Supremacy, Act of Uniformity, and the Royal Injunctions?

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1559

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when was Matthew Parker made the Archbishop of Canterbury?

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1559

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26
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when did King Philip II propose to Liz?

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1559

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27
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when was the poor rate introduced?

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1560s

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when did MQoS’s husband (Francis II) die and she returned to Scotland?

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1560

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29
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when did Robert Dudley become a Privy Councillor?

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1562

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30
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when did Liz contract smallpox and her doctors told Cecil she wouldn’t survive?

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1562

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31
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when did the civil war in France begin?

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1562

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32
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when did Drake make a trip to the Sierra Leone coast?

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1562

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33
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when did parliament and the privy council ask Liz to find a husband?

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1563

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34
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when were the 39 Articles?

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1563

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35
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when were taxes approved to fund wars against France and Scotland?

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1563

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36
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when did Liz make Robert Dudley the Earl of Leicester?

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1563

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37
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when did MQoS marry Lord Darnley?

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1565

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38
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when did parliament urge liz to marry or nominate an heir?

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1566

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39
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when was Rizzio murdered by Scottish nobles?

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1566

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40
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when did James VI become king of Scotland?

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1567

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41
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when was Darnley murdered?

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1567

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42
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when did MQoS arrive in England?

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1568

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43
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when did Walsingham start working for the government?

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1568

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44
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when did William Allen establish a seminary in Douai?

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1568

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45
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when was Drake attacked at San Juan de Ulua?

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1568

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46
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when was the Northern Rebellion?

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1569

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47
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when were the Thomas Cartwright Cambridge lectures?

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1570

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48
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when was the Papal Bull?

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1570

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49
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when was Walsingham an ambassador in Paris?

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1570s

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50
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when did Liz give William Cecil the title Lord Burghley?

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1571

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51
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when was the Treason Act?

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1571

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52
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when was the Ridolfi Plot?

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1571

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53
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when were taxes approved to help defeat a rebellion in the North?

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1571

54
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when did Liz make William Cecil Lord High Treasurer?

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1572

55
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when were harsh punishments for undeserving poor introduced?

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1572

56
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when were Puritan printing presses destroyed?

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1572

57
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when was St Bartholomew’s Day Massacre?

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1572

58
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when did Drake attack Nombre de Dios?

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1572

59
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when did Francis Walsingham take over from William Cecil as Principal Secretary with special responsibility for foreign affairs?

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1573

60
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when did Drake return to england after his trip to Nombre de Dios?

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1573

61
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when did the first of William Allen’s seminary priests arrive in England?

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1574

62
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when was Edmund Grindal made Archbishop of Canterbury?

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1575

63
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when were MPs no longer allowed to discuss religion without Liz’s permission?

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1576

64
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when did Peter Wentworth complain MPs couldn’t discuss what they liked and was sent to the Tower of London for a month?

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1576

65
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when were taxes raised even though England was at peace?

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1576

66
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when did Martin Frobisher lead an expedition to investigate the Strait of Anian?

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1576

67
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when was Francis Walsingham knighted?

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1577

68
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when did Raleigh first visit America?

A

1578

69
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when did Duke of Parma’s army try to restore control and Parma made Governor of the Netherlands?

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1578

70
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when was the Eastland company est.?

A

1579

71
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when was John Fields banned from preaching?

A

1580

72
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when were the Brownists est.?

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1580

73
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when did Jesuits arrive in England?

A

1580

74
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when was the Levant company est.?

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1581

75
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when did Walter Raleigh come to court?

A

1581

76
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when was Edmund Campion executed?

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1581

77
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when were recusancy fines increased to £20?

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1581

78
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when were taxes approved to pay for army to send to Ireland?

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1581

79
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when did Elizabeth receive a crown as a new year gift?

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1581

80
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when was John Whitgift made Archbishop of Canterbury and issued the ‘Three Articles’?

A

1583

81
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when was the Throckmorton Plot?

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1583

82
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when did Robert Devereux come to Court?

A

1584

83
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when was the Bond of Association?

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1584

84
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when was William the Silent assassinated?

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1584

85
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when was Raleigh given a Royal Charter to establish colonies in North America and sent Philip Amada and Arthur Barlowe on an exploratory mission?

A

1584

86
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when was the Act Against Jesuits and Seminary Priests?

A

1585

87
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when did Raleigh send 108 settlers to establish a permanent colony on Roanoke Island, Virginia, and was knighted?

A

1585

88
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when was the Babington Plot?

A

1586

89
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when did Drake visit the now-abandoned colony on Roanoke Island, Virginia?

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1586

90
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when were taxes approved for war against Spain?

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1586, 1593

91
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when was MQoS executed?

A

1587

92
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when did Liz make Christopher Hatton the Lord Chancellor?

A

1587

93
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when did the second group of settlers reach Roanoke?

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1587

94
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when did Drake attack Cadiz?

A

1587

95
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when did Robert Dudley die?

A

1588

96
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when was the Spanish Armada launched?

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1588

97
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when were the Marprelate Tracts discovered?

A

1589

98
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when were taxes raised to pay cost of defeating armada in ‘88?

A

1589

99
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when did Sir Francis Walsingham and Blache Perry die?

A

1590

100
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when did supply ships reach Roanoke but all planters had disappeared?

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1590

101
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when was Thomas Cartwright imprisoned?

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1590

102
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when did Christopher Hatton die?

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1591

103
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when did James Lancaster sail to India around the Cape of Good Hope?

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1591

104
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when was Thomas Cartwright imprisoned again?

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1591

105
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when was Raleigh disgraced?

A

1592

106
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when did Liz make Robert Devereux a member of the Privy Council?

A

1593

107
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when were Henry Barrow and John Greenwood hung?

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1593

108
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when was the Act Against Seditious Sectaries?

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1593

109
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when was the State of Confinement?

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1593

110
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when did the Nine Years’ War or Tyrone’s Rebellion, in Ireland, begin?

A

1594

111
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when was the Poor Law?

A

1597

112
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when did William Cecil and Katherine, Countess of Nottingham, die?

A

1598

113
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when did the civil war in france end?

A

1598

114
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when did Liz send Essex to deal with Tyrone’s Rebellion?

A

1599

115
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when was East India Company set up?

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1600

116
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when did Liz take away Essex’s monopoly on the distribution of sweet wines?

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November 1600

117
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when was the final Poor Law?

A

1591

118
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when was Essex executed for treason?

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25th Feb. 1601

119
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when was the Essex Rebellion?

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8th Feb. 1601

120
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when did Liz die, James I is king of England and Scotland?

A

1603

121
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what did the 1544 Act of Succession do?

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returned both Mary and Elizabeth to the line of succession behind Edward, any potential children of Edward, and any potential children of Henry by his then wife, Catherine Parr, or any future wife Henry might have.

122
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what did the act of supremacy say?

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declared Elizabeth the Supreme Governor of the Church of England, instituted an Oath of Supremacy, requiring anyone taking public or church office to swear allegiance to the monarch as head of the Church and state.

123
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what did the act of uniformity say?

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set out the groundwork for the Elizabethan church: eg restored 1552 version of the English Prayer Book but kept many of the familiar old practices and allowed for two interpretations of communion, one Catholic and one Protestant.

124
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what were the Royal Injunctions?

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A set of instructions to the clergy. Included instructions on how people should worship God, how religious services were to be conducted, to ban ‘fake’ miracles and to ban and report recusants

125
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when did the Tudor family begin their rule?

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when HVII became king in 1485

126
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when was Liz courted by Duke Francis of Anjou?

A

1570s

127
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when were the first theatres built?

A

1570s

128
Q

when did english sailors begin to take an interest in global exploration?

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from the 1560s

129
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when did english merchants become interested in trade with asia and begin exploring routes there?

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from the 1570s

130
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