Elizabeth I Religion Dates

Question 1

When was the Religious Settlement?

Answer 1

1559

Question 2

When were the Acts of Uniformity and Supremacy passed?

Answer 2

1559

Question 3

When was the first use of the Elizabethan Book of Common Prayer?

Answer 3

1559

Question 4

When were the Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion?

Answer 4

1563

Question 5

When was John Foxe’s Book of Martyrs published?

Answer 5

1563

Question 6

When is Elizabeth I excommunicated by the Pope?

Answer 6

1570

Question 7

When is a Treason Act passed?

Answer 7

1571

Question 8

When were Parker’s Advertisements?

Answer 8

1566

Question 9

How many London clergymen refused to signify their support for Parker’s advertisements and were subsequently deprived of their posts?

Answer 9

37

Question 10

When were the two Presbyterian Admonitions published? (first attacking BoCP and calling for the abolition of bishops and the second detailing a Presbyterian system of government).

Answer 10

1572

Question 11

When was the Act to Retain the Queen’s Majesty’s Subjects in their Due Obedience? (saying mass became punishable by heavy fine and 15 priests were killed)

Answer 11

1581

Question 12

When was the Act against Jesuits and Priests (priests could not be ordained under the Pope’s authority to enter England)?

Answer 12

1585

Question 13

When was the English College, in Douai, founded to send new trained Catholic priests to England?

Answer 13

1568

Question 14

Between 1580 and 1585, how many seminary priests arrived from the English College?

Answer 14

179

Question 15

When did the Society of Jesus begin sending Jesuits to England?

Answer 15

1580

Question 16

When did Anthony Cope’s ‘Bill and Book’ fail? (Presbyterian approach to parliamentary reform)

Answer 16

1587