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Dates - Elizabethan England Flashcards

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when was Anne Boleyn executed?

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May 1536

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when was Queen Elizabeth I born?

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7th September 1533

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when did Queen Elizabeth I become Queen?

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November 1558

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when did Parliament start talking about marriage openly?

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1566

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5
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when was the Poor Law passed?

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1601

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6
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when did Robert Bell criticise monopolies as unfair?

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1571

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when did Elizabeth make a speech to Parliament about monopolies?

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1601

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8
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when was the restoration of the royal supremacy over a Protestant Church of England?

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1559

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9
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when did all actors in theatre have to be licensed?

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1572

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when did Elizabeth establish the theatre group ‘The Queens Men’?

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1583

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11
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when was the first purpose built theatre the ‘The Red Lion’ built?

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1567

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12
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when did London have a population of 150,000?

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1603

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when did England experience bad harvests and food shortages, which led to starvation?

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1594-98

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14
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when did York appoint a master beggar to check on other beggars?

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1528

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when did Ipswich introduce a licensing system for beggars?

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1569

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16
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when was 80% of Norwich’s population in poverty?

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1570

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17
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when was the Statute of Artificers?

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1563

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18
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when was the Vagabonds Act?

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1572

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19
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when was the Poor Relief Act?

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1576

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20
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when did Christopher Columbus discover the ‘new world’?

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1492

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21
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when was the first circumnavigation of the globe?

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1519-22

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22
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when was the Eastland Company formed?

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1579

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23
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when was the Levant Company formed?

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1581

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24
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when was the East India formed?

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1600

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25
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when did James Lancaster reach the east?

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in the 1590s

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26
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when did Bartholomew Diaz sail around the Southern tip of Africa?

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1487

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27
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when was Sir Walter Raleigh executed under Spanish pressure?

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1618

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28
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when did Elizabeth ban Sir Walter Raleigh from court for five years?

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1592

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29
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when was Sir Francis Drake knighted?

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1581

30
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when did Sir Francis Drake become an MP?

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in the 1580s

31
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when was Sir Walter Raleigh knighted?

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1585

32
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when did Sir Walter Raleigh serve as the Governor of Jersey?

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1600-03

33
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when did Sir Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe in the Golden Hind?

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1577-80

34
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when did John Hawkins become involved in the African slave trade?

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1562

35
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when did Drake take part in voyages with his cousin Hawkins?

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in the 1560s

36
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when did Drake capture £40,000 worth of Spanish treasure and capture Spanish ports?

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1572

37
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when did Raleigh lead a voyage to ‘El Dorado’ in South America, however this was unsuccessful?

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1595

38
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when did Raleigh establish the first colony in Virginia?

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1607

39
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when was Jamestown deliberately burnt during Bacon’s Rebellion?

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1676

40
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when did German monk, Martin Luther, protest about the Roman Catholic church?

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1517

41
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when did Henry VIII push through the Act of Supremacy?

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1534

42
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when did Elizabeth give her approval to the Acts of Uniformity and Supremacy?

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8th May 1559

43
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when did the Acts of Uniformity and Supremacy get passed by the government?

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29th April 1559

44
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what was the year of the Book of Common Prayer that the Act of Uniformity reintroduced?

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1552

45
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when did the first priests arrive in England from the Netherlands as missionaries?

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1574

46
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when did the first Jesuit priests arrive in England?

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1580

47
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when did Edmund Campion leave England and travel to Rome to join the Jesuits?

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1573

48
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when did Edmund Campion arrive in England disguised as a Jewel merchant to preach Catholicism to the people?

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June 1580

49
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when did Elizabeth introduce recusancy fines for Catholics who did not take part in Protestant services?

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1571

50
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when were recusancy fines raised to £20 so that they even affected the rich?

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1581

51
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when did it become legal to kill anyone who attempted to assassinate the Queen?

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1585

52
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when was the ‘Statue of Confinement’ introduced?

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1593

53
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when did Essex have military successes against the Spanish?

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1596

54
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when did Elizabeth order Essex to defeat a rebellion in Ireland led by Earl of Tyrone, however he made peace with them instead?

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1598

55
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when did Earl of Leicester marry Essex’s mother and introduce Essex to the Queen?

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1587

56
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when did Elizabeth make Essex a Privy councillor?

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1595

57
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when did Elizabeth make Essex the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland?

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1599

58
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when did Essex rush into Elizabeth’s bedchamber and fall out of her favour?

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1599

59
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when was the Essex Rebellion?

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1601

60
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when was Essex privately executed?

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25th February 1601

61
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when was Mary Queen of Scots held prisoner at Loch Leven Castle?

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1568

62
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when was Mary Queen of Scots born?

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1542

63
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when did the Scottish lords change the official religion to Protestantism from Catholicism?

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1561

64
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when was the Treaty of Edinburgh formed?

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1560

65
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when did Lord Darnley start to plot against Mary Queen of Scots?

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1567

66
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when was the Papal bull?

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1570

67
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when did the Pope excommunicate Elizabeth from the Catholic Church?

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27th April 1570

68
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when was the Throckmorton Plot?

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1583

69
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when was the Northern Rebellion?

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1569

70
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when was the Ridolfi Plot?

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1571

71
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when was the Babington Plot?

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1586

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