Elizabeth - Key Dates

Question 1

When was Elizabeth born

Answer 1

1533

Question 2

When did Elizabeth die

Answer 2

1603

Question 3

When was Elizabeth’s reign

Answer 3

1558 - 1603

Question 4

When was Elizabeth’s Religious Settlement passed

Answer 4

1559

Question 5

When does Mary become Queen of Scotland

Answer 5

1542 - 5 days after being born

Question 6

When was Mary Queen of Scots first sent to France

Answer 6

1548

Question 7

When does Mary Queen of Scots marry Francis II of France to become Queen of France as well

Answer 7

1558

Question 8

When do Scottish Protestant Lords rebel and defeat Mary of guise with help of money from Elizabeth

Answer 8

1560

Question 9

when do Scottish lords rebel again and force Mary Queen of Scots to abdicate in favor of her son

Answer 9

1567

Question 10

when does Mary flee to England for Elizabeth’s help

Answer 10

1568

Question 11

when was the revolt of the Northern Earls

Answer 11

1569

Question 12

when was the Ridolfi plot

Answer 12

1571

Question 13

when was the Throckmorton plot

Answer 13

1583

Question 14

when was the Babington plot

Answer 14

1586

Question 15

when was Elizabeth excommunicated

Answer 15

1570

Question 16

when does Mary Queen of Scots return to Scotland from France

Answer 16

1560

Question 17

When was Mary executed

Answer 17

1587

Question 18

When did the Dutch revolt begin

Answer 18

1566

Question 19

When did Francis Drake circumnavigate the world

Answer 19

1577-80

Question 20

when was the Duke of Alba sent to the Netherlands with 10,000 men

Answer 20

1567

Question 21

When did the Duke of Alba establish the ‘Council of Troubles’

Answer 21

1568

Question 22

When was the ‘Genoese Loan’

Answer 22

1568

Question 23

When was the Spanish Fury

Answer 23

1576

Question 24

When was the Pacification of Ghent

Answer 24

1576- november

Question 25

When does Elizabeth send £100,000 to help Dutch rebels

Answer 25

1576

Question 26

When does Don Juan arrive in the Netherlands and agrees to all the terms of the Pacification of Ghent

Answer 26

1577

Question 27

When does Elizabeth hire the English mercenary John Casimir to help the Dutch

Answer 27

1579

Question 28

When does the Duke of Alencon come to England to ask Elizabeth for money to help the Dutch

Answer 28

1581

Question 29

When do Dutch Protestants ask the Duke of Alencon for help and he agrees and goes with an army

Answer 29

1582

Question 30

When does Alencon return defeated to France

Answer 30

1583

Question 31

When do the Duke of Alencon and the Dutch Protestant leader William of Orange both die

Answer 31

1584

Question 32

When do the French and Spanish sign the treaty of Joinville

Answer 32

1584

Question 33

When does Elizabeth sign the Treaty of Nonsuch

Answer 33

1585

Question 34

When does Elizabeth send Robert Dudley to the Netherlands with 7400 troops

Answer 34

1585

Question 35

When does Robert Dudley help the Dutch Protestants to defend Ofstend against Spanish troops

Answer 35

1586

Question 36

When does Robert Dudley fail to fight the Spanish and return to England

Answer 36

1586