Elizabeth Specific evidence Flashcards
When did Elizabeth I become Queen?
1558
How old was Elizabeth I when she became Queen?
25
When was Henry VIII King of England?
1509-47
When was Edward VI King of England?
1547-53
When was Mary I Queen of England?
1553-58
When was the Religious Settlement created?
1559
When did Mary, Queen of Scots arrive in England?
1568
Whose slave ships were attacked by the Spanish, and when did it happen?
John Hawkins, in 1568
When did the Pope excommunicate Elizabeth I?
1570
What was Elizabeth’s title under her Religious Settlement?
Supreme Governor of the Protestant Church of England
When was the Ridolfi Plot?
1571
Who was executed as a result of the Ridolfi Plot?
The Duke of Norfolk
When did Elizabeth start to send secret aid to Protestants in the Netherlands?
1572
When was the Vagabonds Act?
1572
Vagabonds Act aims (2)
Local Justices of the Peace to:
(1) Keep a register of the poor
(2) Raise a poor rate to provide shelter for the elderly and sick
In what year was there a disastrous harvest followed by four consecutive bad ones?
1573
Poor Relief Act (date)
1576
Poor Relief Act aims (2)
Local Justices of the Peace had to provide raw materials for poor people to work with
When did Jesuit missionary priests first land in Europe to spread Catholicism?
1580
When was the Throckmorton Plot?
1583
When did Parliament pass tougher laws against Catholic priests?
1585
When was Walter Raleigh’s first colony in Virginia set up?
1585
When was the Babington Plot?
1586
When was the Spanish Armada launched against England?
1588
When was Mary, Queen of Scots executed?
1587
When did Francis Drake singe the King of Spain’s beard?
1587
How many Spanish ships did Francis Drake destroy when he singed the King of Spain’s beard?
24
When did the Rose Theatre open, and what was one very popular show?
1587
Christopher Marlowe’s “Doctor Faustus”
What was the population of England at the time of Elizabeth I?
About 3 million
Punishments for vagrancy
Whipping
Boring through ear
Death
