Eliz Dates Flashcards
When did Elizabeth ascend to the throne?
1558
When was the religious settlement?
1559
When did MQS flee to England?
1568
When was the revolt of the northern earls?
1569
When was Elizabeth excommunicated?
1570
When was the Ridolfi Plot?
1571
When did the Dutch Revolt start?
1566
When did Francis Drake circumnavigate the world?
1577-80
When is Drake knighted on the Golden Hind?
1580
When was the Throckmorton plot?
1583
When was the Treaty of Joinville?
1584
When was the Treaty of Nonsuch?
1585
When was the first colony in Virginia established?
1585
When was the Babington Plot?
1586
When do the surviving colonists abandon Virginia to England?
1586
When was MQS executed?
1587
When was the colony in Roanoke established?
1587
When was the singeing of the King’s beard?
1587
Spanish Armada?
1588
When do English sailors arrive at Roanoke to see it abandoned?
1590
How many Englishmen set out for Virginia?
107
When did Elizabeth help Scottish protestant rebels?
1560
How did Elizabeth anger the French and when was it?
In 1562 Elizabeth helped the Protestant French Rebels in hopes to get back Calais in return,
What was the Treaty of Troyes?
Elizabeth signed the Treaty of Troyes in 1564, which confirmed once and for all that Calias belonged to the French
