ELIZABETHAN TIMELINE - EVERY. SINGLE. ONE...................... Flashcards

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a. 1566

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Parliament were discussing Elizabeths marriage openly

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a. 1562

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Elizabeth almost dies of smallpox

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a. 1568

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Mary QoS comes to England

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3
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a. 1569

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Northern Rebellion

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4
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a. 1571

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Ridolfi Plot.
Treason Act.

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5
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a. 1573

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Robert Devereux becomes Earl of Essex

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6
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a. 1584

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Throckmorton Plot

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7
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a. 1586

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Babington Plot

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8
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a. 1587

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Mary QoS executed

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9
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a. 1588

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Spanish Armada

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10
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a. 1590

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Sir Francis Walsingham dies

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11
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a. 1595

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Essex made a Privvy Councillor

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12
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a. 1596

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Military success against the Spanish

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13
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a. 1598

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William Cecil dies

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14
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a. 1599

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Essex made Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
Failure and financial ruin made him fall out of favour with Elizabeth

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a. 1601

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Poor Laws.
Essex Rebellion.

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16
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a. 1603

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Elizabeth dies

17
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b. 1559

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Act of Uniformity.
Act of Supremacy.

18
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b. 1561

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Mary QoS arrives in Scottland from France

19
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b. 1570

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Elizabeth excommunicated by the Pope

20
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b. 1571

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Rosary beads banned

21
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b. 1574

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Catholic Missionaries start arriving in England

22
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b. 1580

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Jesuit priests arrive in England from Europe

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b. 1581

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Separatist (Protestant) Church established under Robert Browne

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b. 1585

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Any Catholic ordained after 1559 considered traitors.
Act against Jesuits and Seminary Priests.

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b. 1587

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Singeing of the Spanish King’s Beard

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b. 1593

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The ‘Statute of Confinement’ - Catholics could not travel more than 5 miles from their home without permission.
The Act Against Seditious Sectaries made Puritanism an offence.

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c. 1555

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Muscovy company set up

27
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c. 1563

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Statue of Artificers.
A poor law seeking to fix prices, impose minimum wages and regulate training.

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c. 1564

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Sir John Hawkins started the slave trade.
Shakespeare was born.

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c. 1567

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First London theatre was built

30
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c. 1572

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Poverty now a problem of the local government

31
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c. 1577-80

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Drake circumnavigated the globe

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c. 1576

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Local government required to provide work for the poor

32
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c. 1579

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The Eastland Company established.
Traded timber, tar, canvas and rope with Scandinavia and the Baltic.

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c. 1581

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Drake knighted and becomes Sir Francis Drake.
The Levant Company traded in the Mediterranean with currants and dyes.

34
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c. 1584

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Sir Walter Raleigh given permission to explore and rule any land that was not already claimed

34
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c. 1582

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Elizabeth sent Ralph Fitch to India and the far east to investigate the possibility of trade there

35
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c. 1599

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Globe theatre was built

35
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c. 1597

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Overseers of the poor were created

36
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c. 1600

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East India Trading Company was set up

37
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c. 1601

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First Elizabethan Poor Law