Key Dates

Question 1

When was Elizabeth I crowned Queen.

Answer 1

1558

Question 2

When was Elizabeth’s religious settlement?

Answer 2

1558

Question 3

When was the Treaty of Cateau-Cambresis?

Answer 3

1559

Question 4

When was the treaty of Edinburgh?

Answer 4

1560

Question 5

When was the statute of artificers?

Answer 5

1563

Question 6

When was the Dutch revolt?

Answer 6

1566

Question 7

When was the Genoese loan?

Answer 7

1568

Question 8

When did Mary Queen of Scots arrive in England?

Answer 8

1568

Question 9

When was the revolt of the northern Earls?

Answer 9

1569

Question 10

When was the papal bull?

Answer 10

1570

Question 11

When was the Ridolfi plot?

Answer 11

1571

Question 12

When was the vagabonds act?

Answer 12

1572

Question 13

When were Jesuits first smuggled into England?

Answer 13

1574

Question 14

When was the poor relief act

Answer 14

1576

Question 15

When was the Spanish fury?

Answer 15

1576

Question 16

When was the pacification of Ghent?

Answer 16

1576

Question 17

When does drake circumnavigate the world?

Answer 17

1577-80

Question 18

When is Francis Drake knighted on the Golden Hind.

Answer 18

1580

Question 19

When was the Throckmorton plot?

Answer 19

1583

Question 20

When was the Treaty of Joinville?

Answer 20

1584

Question 21

When was the Treaty of Nonsuch?

Answer 21

1585

Question 22

When are all Catholic priests ordered to leave England?

Answer 22

1585

Question 23

When is the first English colony in Virginia established?

Answer 23

1585

Question 24

When was the Treaty of Berwick?

Answer 24

1586

Question 25

When do surviving colonists abandon Virginia and return to England?

Answer 25

1586

Question 26

When was the Treaty of Berwick?

Answer 26

1586

Question 27

When was the Babington Plot?

Answer 27

1586

Question 28

When is Mary Queen of Scots executed?

Answer 28

1587

Question 29

When is colony established at Roanoke?

Answer 29

1587

Question 30

When was the ‘singeing of the King’s beard’?

Answer 30

1587

Question 31

When does Philip II of Spain launch the Armada?

Answer 31

1588

Question 32

When was the failure of the Armada?

Answer 32

1588

Question 33

When do English sailors land at Roanoke to find it abandoned?

Answer 33

1590

Question 34

When was the death of Elizabeth?

Answer 34

1603