Elizabeth hard-to-remember dates

Question 1

Both Cecil and Essex factions agree Bacon should be solicitor general, and Elizabeth won’t agree.

Answer 1

1593

Question 2

Cecil made Lord Burghley

Answer 2

1571

Question 3

Dudley half accepted Dutch sovreignity while there, and was punished by Elizabeth after

Answer 3

1586

Question 4

She boxed the ears of the Earl of Essex

Answer 4

1598

Question 5

Cecil made Lord Treasurer

Answer 5

1572

Question 6

William Cecil died. Elizabeth fed him soup WITH HER OWN HAND :O

Answer 6

1598

Question 7

Dudley made Earl of Leicester

Answer 7

1564

Question 8

Bill and Book, Anthony Cope

Answer 8

1587

Question 9

Parliament made tougher laws against Catholics

Answer 9

1571 and 1581

Question 10

Parliament passed sanctions against non-attendees of church (Catholic or Puritan)

Answer 10

1593

Question 11

Alliance with James

Answer 11

1585

Question 12

Ridolfi, Throckmorton and Babington plots (in that order) (chronologically)

Answer 12

1571, 1583, 1586

Question 13

Father Parson’s book pushing the cases for successors alternative to James

Answer 13

1595

Question 14

Cecil had a portrait commissioned of Lady Arabella Stuart, apparently showing support for her as the successor.

Answer 14

1599

Question 15

The accession day celebrations first incorporated Elizabeth’s virginity as a big thing.

Answer 15

1576

Question 16

Thomas Seymour tried to marry Elizabeth. Year he was executed for it.

Answer 16

1549

Question 17

Jane Grey spent a short time as ruler. The privy council changed their loyalty to Mary and people seem to have stayed loyal to the direct royal blood line

Answer 17

1553

Question 18

Mary executed a load of protestants

Answer 18

1553-1558 (her rule, basically)

Question 19

Somerset failed to capture scotland.

Answer 19

1544

Question 20

Treaty of Boulogne

Answer 20

1550

Question 21

Some scottish Protestant lord vow to make Scotland protestant

Answer 21

1557

Question 22

The eighth earl of Kildare imprisoned, leading to the Irish rebellions

Answer 22

1534

Question 23

Henry VIII declares himself king of Ireland in order to cut out the Pope

Answer 23

1540

Question 24

Quote from Elizabeth: She was “a woman wanting both wit and memory”

Answer 24

1563

Question 25

Quote from Elizabeth: “My sex cannot diminish my prestige”

Answer 25

1603

Question 26

Henry VIII passes his last succession act (he made three)

Answer 26

1543

Question 27

Recoinage

Answer 27

1560

Question 28

Paid off Marian debt

Answer 28

1585

Question 29

96 whipped out of (London?) for being vagrants

Answer 29

1589

Question 30

The statute of Apprentices and Artifices

Answer 30

1596

Question 31

Oxfordshire Rising

Answer 31

1596