History Flashcards
Elizabeth’s reign begins
1558
Elizabeth’s religious settlement aka The Middle Way
1559
Execution of Mary Queen of the Scotts
1587
Romeo and Juliet first performed
1597
Elizabeth’s reign ends
1603
Lord Mountbatten is assassinated
1979
Battle of Britain
1940
Thatcher wins third election
1987
Oasis are formed
1991
Alonso de Zuazo letter
1518
Description of Africa by Leo Africanus
1526
Sir John Hawkins leads England’s first slave voyage
1562
Privy Council’s ‘those kin of people’ letter
1596
Visit of the Moroccan ambassador to England
1600
Othello first performed
1603
Jamestown Massacre
1622
Massachusetts Body of Liberties
1641
Psuedodoxia Epidemica released
1646
Elizabeth key case
1657
Barbados slave code
1661
Jamaican slave act
1688