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England loses Calais, last English possession in France
Queen Mary I dies on November 17, 1558
November 17, Accession of Queen Elizabeth, Elizabeth succeeded her Catholic sister Mary I and re-established the Protestant Anglican Church. (Reigned 1558 - 1603)
Repeal of Catholic legislation in England

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England loses Calais, last English possession in France
Queen Mary I dies on November 17, 1558
November 17, Accession of Queen Elizabeth, Elizabeth succeeded her Catholic sister Mary I and re-established the Protestant Anglican Church. (Reigned 1558 - 1603)
Repeal of Catholic legislation in England

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Jan 13, 1559 - Elizabeth crowned Queen of England

The Prayer Book - Jun 24, 1559 - The Elizabethan Prayer Book is first used

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Siege of Leith, English troops besiege the French
Jul. 6, 1560 - Treaty of Edinburgh between England, France, and Scotland
Sep 8, 1560 - The wife of Robert Dudley, Amy Robsart, is found dead at the foot of the stairs in her home, Cumnor Place, Oxford

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Aug. 19, 1561 - Return of Mary Stuart ( Mary Queen of Scots ) to Scotland
Sep. 20, 1561 - Treaty signed at Hampton Court ,Elizabeth pledges support of the French Huguenots

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Council of Trent
Jul 15, 1562 - Elizabeth cancels a meeting with Mary, Queen of Scots because of Mary’s continued attacks on French Protestants - they never meet
Queen Elizabeth almost dies of Smallpox

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The Thirty-nine Articles, which complete establishment of the Anglican Church

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1564 2

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The Peace of Troyes between England and France

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The Lord Darnley Marriage to Mary Queen of Scots - Mary marries her 19-year-old cousin Henry Stewart, Lord Darnley; aged 22

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Mar 9, 1566 - The Murder of David Riccio

Jun 19, 1566 - Mary Stuart’s only child is born (James, later king of Scotland and England)

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Feb. 10, 1567 - Murder of Lord Darnley, husband of Mary Queen of Scots
Mary Queen of Scots marries James Hepburn, the 30-year-old Earl of Bothwell causing a rebellion
May 15, 1567 - Mary Queen of Scots imprisoned
Jul. 24, 1567 - Mary abdicates and her baby son, James, becomes King James VI, King of Scotland - her illegitimate brother, the Earl of Murray acts as Protector

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The Catholic Mary Queen of Scots is imprisoned by Elizabeth I at Fotheringay Castle
Parliament and the Queen’s Marriage

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Elizabeth exonerates Mary Queen of Scots from the charges made against her
The Nevilles of Durham and Percys of Northumberland plot to overthrow Elizabeth I and reinstate Roman Catholicism in “The Rising of the North”
Pope Pius V heard of the revolt and decided to help the rebels by deposing Elizabeth
The rebellion failed but the Pope’s action increased her distrust of Catholics
The leaders are later executed
Oct 1, 1569 - Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk is imprisoned in the Tower for plotting to marry Mary, Queen of Scots

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1570 The excommunication of Elizabeth I by the Catholic Church

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Jan 2, 1571 - Marriage negotiations between Elizabeth and Henry, Duke of Anjou
Feb 25, 1571 - Sir William Cecil is created Lord Burghley

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1572 August 24, St Bartholomew’s Day massacre where French Protestants were massacred by French Catholics in Paris which was witnessed by Sir Philip Sidney, Sir Walter Raleigh and Sir Francis Walsingham. Similar atrocities elsewhere in France result in thousands of deaths, and caused panic in England with fears of a Catholic invasion

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Sir Francis Drake captures a shipment of silver destined for Spain
Dec 21, 1573 - Sir Francis Walsingham appointed Principal Secretary of State and becomes Elizabeth’s chief spy master

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Nov 14, 1575 - Queen Elizabeth declines to accept the sovereignty of the Netherlands

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May 9, 1576 - The Earl of Essex is restored the title of “Earl Marshal of Ireland”
Sep 22, 1576 - The Earl of Essex dies

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Alliance between England and Netherlands

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Mar 10, 1578 - Queen Elizabeth sends 20,000 pounds to aid the Dutch
Sep 21, 1578 - Robert Dudley secretly marries Lady Lettice Knollys, at Wanstead

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Aug 17, 1579 - Francis, Duke of Anjou, visits Queen Elizabeth at Greenwich hoping to marry her
Oct 7, 1579 - The Privy Council fails to support Queen Elizabeth in the marriage treaty with the Duke of Anjou

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Sep 26, 1580 - Francis Drake returns to England in triumph

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Sir Francis Drake takes more plunder form Spain who protests and demand restitution. Elizabeth refuses!
Mar 18, 1581 - Parliament passes strict legislation against Roman Catholics with heavy fines hearing Mass
May 4, 1581 - Francis Drake is knighted by Queen Elizabeth.
Nov 7, 1581 - A marriage treaty between Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Anjou is signed.

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William of Orange is murdered and England sends aid to the Netherlands
Jun 15, 1584 - Francis, Duke of Anjou dies

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Jun 29, 1585 - Queen Elizabeth declines offers by the Dutch commission for sovereignty of the Low Countries
Aug 14, 1585 - Queen Elizabeth issues a declaration taking the Netherlands under her protection
Dec 8, 1585 - Robert Dudley leads the English army to fight the Spanish forces who are occupying the Netherlands

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Conspiracy against Elizabeth I involving Mary Queen of Scots
The Babbington Plot - Sir Francis Walsingham discovers plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth and replace her with Mary Queen of Scots. The leader of the plot was Anthony Babbington
Jul 1, 1586 - Treaty of Berwick - Queen Elizabeth and James VI of Scotland form a league of amity
Oct. 25, 1586 - Mary Queen of Scots is convicted of involvement in the Babbington plot

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Feb. 8, 1587 - Execution of Mary Queen of Scots
England at war with Spain
Apr 19, 1587 - Drake destroys the Spanish fleet at Cadiz
Jun 18, 1587 - Queen Elizabeth appoints Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, as her Master of the Horse

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Aug. 8, 1588 - The Spanish Armada of 132 ships is defeated by the English fleet of 34 ships and 163 armed merchant vessels under Lord Howard of Effingham, Sir Francis Drake, and Sir John Hawkins ( war between Spain and England continues until 1603 )
Sep 4, 1588 - Lord Robert Dudley dies

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Thomas Cavendish, English sailor and explorer dies ( he was born in 1555)
January 30 1592 - The death of Pope Innocent IX during the previous year had left the Papal throne vacant. Ippolito Aldobrandini is elected Pope Clement VIII.

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Apr 17, 1591 - Queen Elizabeth sends to aid King Henry IV of France lead by Sir John Norris with 3000 men
Sep 5, 1591 - Sir Richard Grenville dies.

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1593 London Theatres close due to the Bubonic Plague (The Black Death)
Queen Elizabeth tells Parliament that she has the right to assent or dissent from anything they do
Penalties are proposed for people who refuse to attend Church of England services and to make it a crime to attend Catholic services

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English fleet under the Earl of Essex and Lord Howard of Effingham capture Cadiz

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Irish rebellion under Hugh O’Neill, Earl of Tyrone (finally put down 1601)
King Philip II sends a second armada against England - a storm scatters his ships
Elizabeth makes Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex the Earl Marshal of England

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The Queen’s favourite Robert, Earl of Essex was placed in charge of a large English army to suppress Irish rebels. Instead, Essex signed an unauthorized truce with the Earl of Tyrone - the greatest rebel
Queen Elizabeth deprives Essex of his titles and ordered his arrest

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Queen Elizabeth I grants charter to East India Company

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1601 3

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Elizabethan Poor Law charges the parishes with providing for the needy
Essex attempts rebellion
25th February 1601 Robert Devereux (1566-1601), Earl of Essex is executed on Tower Green

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1603 2

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Queen Elizabeth dies on 24 March 1603 of of blood poisoning

James I of England, James VI of Scotland, (great-great-grandson of Henry VII) is proclaimed King

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1559 2

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Jan 13, 1559 - Elizabeth crowned Queen of England

The Prayer Book - Jun 24, 1559 - The Elizabethan Prayer Book is first used

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1560 3

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Siege of Leith, English troops besiege the French
Jul. 6, 1560 - Treaty of Edinburgh between England, France, and Scotland
Sep 8, 1560 - The wife of Robert Dudley, Amy Robsart, is found dead at the foot of the stairs in her home, Cumnor Place, Oxford

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1561 2

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Aug. 19, 1561 - Return of Mary Stuart ( Mary Queen of Scots ) to Scotland
Sep. 20, 1561 - Treaty signed at Hampton Court ,Elizabeth pledges support of the French Huguenots

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1562 3

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Council of Trent
Jul 15, 1562 - Elizabeth cancels a meeting with Mary, Queen of Scots because of Mary’s continued attacks on French Protestants - they never meet
Queen Elizabeth almost dies of Smallpox

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1563 2

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The Thirty-nine Articles, which complete establishment of the Anglican Church

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1564 2

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The Peace of Troyes between England and France

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1565 1

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The Lord Darnley Marriage to Mary Queen of Scots - Mary marries her 19-year-old cousin Henry Stewart, Lord Darnley; aged 22

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1566 2

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Mar 9, 1566 - The Murder of David Riccio

Jun 19, 1566 - Mary Stuart’s only child is born (James, later king of Scotland and England)

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1567 4

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Feb. 10, 1567 - Murder of Lord Darnley, husband of Mary Queen of Scots
Mary Queen of Scots marries James Hepburn, the 30-year-old Earl of Bothwell causing a rebellion
May 15, 1567 - Mary Queen of Scots imprisoned
Jul. 24, 1567 - Mary abdicates and her baby son, James, becomes King James VI, King of Scotland - her illegitimate brother, the Earl of Murray acts as Protector

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1568 2

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The Catholic Mary Queen of Scots is imprisoned by Elizabeth I at Fotheringay Castle
Parliament and the Queen’s Marriage

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1569 6

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Elizabeth exonerates Mary Queen of Scots from the charges made against her
The Nevilles of Durham and Percys of Northumberland plot to overthrow Elizabeth I and reinstate Roman Catholicism in “The Rising of the North”
Pope Pius V heard of the revolt and decided to help the rebels by deposing Elizabeth
The rebellion failed but the Pope’s action increased her distrust of Catholics
The leaders are later executed
Oct 1, 1569 - Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk is imprisoned in the Tower for plotting to marry Mary, Queen of Scots

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1570 1

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1570 The excommunication of Elizabeth I by the Catholic Church

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1571 2

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Jan 2, 1571 - Marriage negotiations between Elizabeth and Henry, Duke of Anjou
Feb 25, 1571 - Sir William Cecil is created Lord Burghley

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1572 1

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1572 August 24, St Bartholomew’s Day massacre where French Protestants were massacred by French Catholics in Paris which was witnessed by Sir Philip Sidney, Sir Walter Raleigh and Sir Francis Walsingham. Similar atrocities elsewhere in France result in thousands of deaths, and caused panic in England with fears of a Catholic invasion

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1573 2

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Sir Francis Drake captures a shipment of silver destined for Spain
Dec 21, 1573 - Sir Francis Walsingham appointed Principal Secretary of State and becomes Elizabeth’s chief spy master

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1575 1

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Nov 14, 1575 - Queen Elizabeth declines to accept the sovereignty of the Netherlands

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1576 2

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May 9, 1576 - The Earl of Essex is restored the title of “Earl Marshal of Ireland”
Sep 22, 1576 - The Earl of Essex dies

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1577 1

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Alliance between England and Netherlands

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1578 2

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Mar 10, 1578 - Queen Elizabeth sends 20,000 pounds to aid the Dutch
Sep 21, 1578 - Robert Dudley secretly marries Lady Lettice Knollys, at Wanstead

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1579 2

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Aug 17, 1579 - Francis, Duke of Anjou, visits Queen Elizabeth at Greenwich hoping to marry her
Oct 7, 1579 - The Privy Council fails to support Queen Elizabeth in the marriage treaty with the Duke of Anjou

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1580 1

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Sep 26, 1580 - Francis Drake returns to England in triumph

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1581 3

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Sir Francis Drake takes more plunder form Spain who protests and demand restitution. Elizabeth refuses!
Mar 18, 1581 - Parliament passes strict legislation against Roman Catholics with heavy fines hearing Mass
May 4, 1581 - Francis Drake is knighted by Queen Elizabeth.
Nov 7, 1581 - A marriage treaty between Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Anjou is signed.

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1584 2

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William of Orange is murdered and England sends aid to the Netherlands
Jun 15, 1584 - Francis, Duke of Anjou dies

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1585 3

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Jun 29, 1585 - Queen Elizabeth declines offers by the Dutch commission for sovereignty of the Low Countries
Aug 14, 1585 - Queen Elizabeth issues a declaration taking the Netherlands under her protection
Dec 8, 1585 - Robert Dudley leads the English army to fight the Spanish forces who are occupying the Netherlands

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1586 4

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Conspiracy against Elizabeth I involving Mary Queen of Scots
The Babbington Plot - Sir Francis Walsingham discovers plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth and replace her with Mary Queen of Scots. The leader of the plot was Anthony Babbington
Jul 1, 1586 - Treaty of Berwick - Queen Elizabeth and James VI of Scotland form a league of amity
Oct. 25, 1586 - Mary Queen of Scots is convicted of involvement in the Babbington plot

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Feb. 8, 1587 - Execution of Mary Queen of Scots
England at war with Spain
Apr 19, 1587 - Drake destroys the Spanish fleet at Cadiz
Jun 18, 1587 - Queen Elizabeth appoints Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, as her Master of the Horse

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1588 2

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Aug. 8, 1588 - The Spanish Armada of 132 ships is defeated by the English fleet of 34 ships and 163 armed merchant vessels under Lord Howard of Effingham, Sir Francis Drake, and Sir John Hawkins ( war between Spain and England continues until 1603 )
Sep 4, 1588 - Lord Robert Dudley dies

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1592 2

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Thomas Cavendish, English sailor and explorer dies ( he was born in 1555)
January 30 1592 - The death of Pope Innocent IX during the previous year had left the Papal throne vacant. Ippolito Aldobrandini is elected Pope Clement VIII.

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Apr 17, 1591 - Queen Elizabeth sends to aid King Henry IV of France lead by Sir John Norris with 3000 men
Sep 5, 1591 - Sir Richard Grenville dies.

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1593 3

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1593 London Theatres close due to the Bubonic Plague (The Black Death)
Queen Elizabeth tells Parliament that she has the right to assent or dissent from anything they do
Penalties are proposed for people who refuse to attend Church of England services and to make it a crime to attend Catholic services

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1596 1

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English fleet under the Earl of Essex and Lord Howard of Effingham capture Cadiz

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1597 3

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Irish rebellion under Hugh O’Neill, Earl of Tyrone (finally put down 1601)
King Philip II sends a second armada against England - a storm scatters his ships
Elizabeth makes Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex the Earl Marshal of England

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1599 2

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The Queen’s favourite Robert, Earl of Essex was placed in charge of a large English army to suppress Irish rebels. Instead, Essex signed an unauthorized truce with the Earl of Tyrone - the greatest rebel
Queen Elizabeth deprives Essex of his titles and ordered his arrest

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1600 1

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Queen Elizabeth I grants charter to East India Company

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1601 3

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Elizabethan Poor Law charges the parishes with providing for the needy
Essex attempts rebellion
25th February 1601 Robert Devereux (1566-1601), Earl of Essex is executed on Tower Green

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1603 2

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Queen Elizabeth dies on 24 March 1603 of of blood poisoning

James I of England, James VI of Scotland, (great-great-grandson of Henry VII) is proclaimed King

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