Dates - Elizabethan England

Question 1

when was Anne Boleyn executed?

Answer 1

May 1536

Question 2

when was Queen Elizabeth I born?

Answer 2

7th September 1533

Question 3

when did Queen Elizabeth I become Queen?

Answer 3

November 1558

Question 4

when did Parliament start talking about marriage openly?

Answer 4

1566

Question 5

when was the Poor Law passed?

Answer 5

1601

Question 6

when did Robert Bell criticise monopolies as unfair?

Answer 6

1571

Question 7

when did Elizabeth make a speech to Parliament about monopolies?

Answer 7

1601

Question 8

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

Answer 8

1559

Question 9

when did all actors in theatre have to be licensed?

Answer 9

1572

Question 10

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

Answer 10

1583

Question 11

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

Answer 11

1567

Question 12

when did London have a population of 150,000?

Answer 12

1603

Question 13

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

Answer 13

1594-98

Question 14

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

Answer 14

1528

Question 15

when did Ipswich introduce a licensing system for beggars?

Answer 15

1569

Question 16

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

Answer 16

1570

Question 17

when was the Statute of Artificers?

Answer 17

1563

Question 18

when was the Vagabonds Act?

Answer 18

1572

Question 19

when was the Poor Relief Act?

Answer 19

1576

Question 20

when did Christopher Columbus discover the ‘new world’?

Answer 20

1492

Question 21

when was the first circumnavigation of the globe?

Answer 21

1519-22

Question 22

when was the Eastland Company formed?

Answer 22

1579

Question 23

when was the Levant Company formed?

Answer 23

1581

Question 24

when was the East India formed?

Answer 24

1600

Question 25

when did James Lancaster reach the east?

Answer 25

in the 1590s

Question 26

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

Answer 26

1487

Question 27

when was Sir Walter Raleigh executed under Spanish pressure?

Answer 27

1618

Question 28

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

Answer 28

1592

Question 29

when was Sir Francis Drake knighted?

Answer 29

1581

Question 30

when did Sir Francis Drake become an MP?

Answer 30

in the 1580s

Question 31

when was Sir Walter Raleigh knighted?

Answer 31

1585

Question 32

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

Answer 32

1600-03

Question 33

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

Answer 33

1577-80

Question 34

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

Answer 34

1562

Question 35

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

Answer 35

in the 1560s

Question 36

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

Answer 36

1572

Question 37

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

Answer 37

1595

Question 38

when did Raleigh establish the first colony in Virginia?

Answer 38

1607

Question 39

when was Jamestown deliberately burnt during Bacon's Rebellion?

Answer 39

1676

Question 40

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

Answer 40

1517

Question 41

when did Henry VIII push through the Act of Supremacy?

Answer 41

1534

Question 42

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

Answer 42

8th May 1559

Question 43

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

Answer 43

29th April 1559

Question 44

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

Answer 44

1552

Question 45

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

Answer 45

1574

Question 46

when did the first Jesuit priests arrive in England?

Answer 46

1580

Question 47

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

Answer 47

1573

Question 48

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

Answer 48

June 1580

Question 49

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

Answer 49

1571

Question 50

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

Answer 50

1581

Question 51

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

Answer 51

1585

Question 52

when was the 'Statue of Confinement' introduced?

Answer 52

1593

Question 53

when did Essex have military successes against the Spanish?

Answer 53

1596

Question 54

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

Answer 54

1598

Question 55

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

Answer 55

1587

Question 56

when did Elizabeth make Essex a Privy councillor?

Answer 56

1595

Question 57

when did Elizabeth make Essex the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland?

Answer 57

1599

Question 58

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

Answer 58

1599

Question 59

when was the Essex Rebellion?

Answer 59

1601

Question 60

when was Essex privately executed?

Answer 60

25th February 1601

Question 61

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

Answer 61

1568

Question 62

when was Mary Queen of Scots born?

Answer 62

1542

Question 63

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

Answer 63

1561

Question 64

when was the Treaty of Edinburgh formed?

Answer 64

1560

Question 65

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

Answer 65

1567

Question 66

when was the Papal bull?

Answer 66

1570

Question 67

when did the Pope excommunicate Elizabeth from the Catholic Church?

Answer 67

27th April 1570

Question 68

when was the Throckmorton Plot?

Answer 68

1583

Question 69

when was the Northern Rebellion?

Answer 69

1569

Question 70

when was the Ridolfi Plot?

Answer 70

1571

Question 71

when was the Babington Plot?

Answer 71

1586