Elizabethan England key dates

Question 1

When does Elizabeth become Queen?

Answer 1

1558

Question 2

When did Earl of Essex become a Privy Council member?

Answer 2

1595

Question 3

When did Earl of Essex rebel?

Answer 3

February 1601

Question 4

When was the Earl of Essex executed

Answer 4

25 February 1601

Question 5

When was England hit by bad harvests?

Answer 5

Between 1594 and 1598

Question 6

When was the bad outbreak of the flu causing workers involved in food to be killed?

Answer 6

1556

Question 7

When was ‘The Theatre’ opened and by who?

Answer 7

1576 by James Burbage

Question 8

When was the book about the scams and tricks used by beggars (beggars being criminals) published and by who?

Answer 8

1567 and by Thomas Harman

Question 9

When was the act for setting the poor on work and what did it do?

Answer 9

1576 Act - placed responsibility for finding work for the poor in the hands of the local authorities

Question 10

When was the first ever Poor Law introduced?

Answer 10

1601

Question 11

What did the 1601 poor law state?

Answer 11

The wealthy would be taxed to pay for the care and support of the vulnerable (old and sick)
Fit and healthy paupers were to be given work.
Those who refused to work could be whipped or placed into a House of Corrections

Question 12

What did the 1531 laws state about the poor?

Answer 12

Beggars were publicly whipped
Caught a second time would have a hole burned in their ear
Caught a third time would be hanged

Question 13

Between what years did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?

Answer 13

1577-1580

Question 14

When was Francis Drake knighted?

Answer 14

1581

Question 15

When was Sir Walter Raleigh given permission to explore the Americas?

Answer 15

1584

Question 16

What was North America named after Drake discovered it?

Answer 16

New Albion

Question 17

When did John Hawkins kidnap several hundred West Africans?

Answer 17

1564

Question 18

When was the East India company set up?

Answer 18

1600

Question 19

When did the Pope issue the papal bull?

Answer 19

27 April 1570

Question 20

When was the Northern Rebellion

Answer 20

1569

Question 21

When was the Ridolfi plot?

Answer 21

1571

Question 22

When was the Throckmorton plot

Answer 22

1583

Question 23

When was the Babington plot?

Answer 23

1586

Question 24

When was the law that made it treason to attend a Catholic mass passed or convert to Catholicism?

Answer 24

1581

Question 25

When was the second act that stated that any Catholic Priest that had been ordained after 1559 was considered a traitor?

Answer 25

1585

Question 26

When was the ‘statue of confinement’ which forbade Catholics from travelling further than 5 miles from their house passed?

Answer 26

1593

Question 27

When did William Allen establish a seminary at Douai to train priests?

Answer 27

1568

Question 28

When did the first priests arrive in England as missionaries?

Answer 28

1574

Question 29

When were the recusany fines raised to £20

Answer 29

1581

Question 30

When was the Act agasint Jesuits and Seminary Priests that called for all of them to be driven out of England, with many executed?

Answer 30

1585

Question 31

When did the Jesuits begin their mission in England and who lead it?

Answer 31

1580
Robert Parsons and Edmund Campion

Question 32

When was Edmund Campion arrested?

Answer 32

14 July 1581

Question 33

When was Edmund Campion found guilty for treason and then hung?

Answer 33

20 November 1581

Question 34

What was the counter-reformation?

Answer 34

Attempt by Catholic Church to bring Protestants back to Catholicism

Question 35

By which year had most Puritans accepted Elizabeth’s changes and reluctantly conformed and accepted to wear the surplice?

Answer 35

1568

Question 36

In what decade did meetings known as prophesyings become popular?

Answer 36

1570s

Question 37

In what year was a new separatist church established in Norwich by Robert Browne?

Answer 37

1580

Question 38

When was the second separatist church set up in London by Henry Barrow and John Greenwood?

Answer 38

1592

Question 39

When did the new Archbishop of Canterbury, John Whitgift introduce rules to crack down on Puritanism?

Answer 39

1583

Question 40

What were the rules introduced against Puritans?

Answer 40

Banned unlicensed preaching
Enforced attendance at church by imposing recusancy fines
New High Commission given the power to fine and imprison Puritans who didn’t conform
Punishment of printers for spreading Puritan message

Question 41

Which puritan printer was punished for criticising marriage talks with a Catholic French prince?

Answer 41

John Stubbs, right hand chopped off

Question 42

When was John Field, a prominent and strict Puritan banned from preaching?

Answer 42

1580

Question 43

What were strict Puritans called?

Answer 43

Presbyterians

Question 44

When was Thomas Cartwright, puritan imprisoned?

Answer 44

1590

Question 45

When did Mary’s husband, the French King die?

Answer 45

1560

Question 46

When was Mary’s son, James crowned the King of Scotland?

Answer 46

1567

Question 47

How many years was Mary Elizabeth’s prisoner?

Answer 47

19 years

Question 48

When was Mary put on trial before a court of 36 noblemen?

Answer 48

October 1586

Question 49

When was Mary Queen of Scots executed?

Answer 49

8 February 1586

Question 50

When did Drake lead a raid on the port of Cadiz?

Answer 50

1587

Question 51

When was there a Protestant uprising in the Spanish Netherlands?

Answer 51

1566

Question 52

When did Elizabeth allow 7000 English troops to support fellow protestants in the Spanish Netherlands, a clear act of war against Spain?

Answer 52

December 1585

Question 53

In what year did the Spanish Armada take place?

Answer 53

1588

Question 54

Of 151 Spanish ships, how many returned to Spain?

Answer 54

Only 65