Elizabeth Flashcards
Elizabeth’s age when she became Queen
25
How many poeple attended court?
Around 1000
Elizabeth originally reduced the number of privy councillors from around 50 to …
19
Parliament began openly discussing finding a suitable husband for Elizabeth
1566
MP Robert Bell criticised monopolies as being unfair
1571
Essex becomes a Privy Councillor
1595
Essex successfully attacks Spanish port of Cadiz
1596
Essex sent to Ireland with the job of crushing the Earl of Tyrone’s rebellion
1599
Essex rebellion (month & year)
February 1601
Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex exceuted
25 February 1601
Globe Theatre built
1599
Number of supporters in the Essex rebellion
200
Number of Privy Councillors Essex took hostage
4
Bad harvests between ? and ? led to food shortages and starvation
1594 and 1598
A terrible flu outbreak in ? killed ? people, including many farmworkers.
A terrible flu outbreak in 1556 killed 200,000 people, including many farmworkers.
Population rose from ? to ? during Elizabeth’s reign.
From 2.8 million to 4 million
Warning Against Vagabonds by Thomas Harman is published
1567
Act for setting the poor on work - placed responsibility on local authorities (not very effective)
1576
The Poor Law (first national approach):
- taxing the rich to pay for care of sick and vulnerable
- fit and healthy paupers work for food
- those who refused should be punished or placed in a house of correction
1601
Downturn of the cloth trade
1590
Act of Supremacy and Act of Uniformity
May 1559
Treason Act:
- anyone who left country for >6 months had land confiscated -> stopped missionaries
- denying Elizabeth’s supremacy was punishable by death
1571
Ridolfi Plot
1571
Duke of Norfolk killed for involvement in Ridolfi Plot
1572