Key dates

Question 1

1558

Answer 1

Elizabeth is crowned Queen of England, aged 25

Question 2

What year was the Ridolfi Plot?

Answer 2

1571

Question 3

What year was the Ridolfi Plot?

Answer 3

1571

Question 4

1559

Answer 4

The religious settlement created to attempt to ease tensions between Protestants and Catholics

Question 5

What year did Francis Drake circumnavigate the Earth?

Answer 5

1580

Question 6

What year was the Northern Rebellion?

Answer 6

1569

Question 7

Mary Queen of Scots arrives in England, becoming a threat to Elizabeth

Answer 7

1568

Question 8

What year was the Babington Plot?

Answer 8

1586

Question 9

What year did the Pope excommunicate Elizabeth from the church, and what was the decree called?

Answer 9

The Papal Bull, issued in 1570

Question 10

What year was the Throckmorton plot?

Answer 10

1583

Question 11

Which two important events happened in 1587?

Answer 11

MQS executed for her role in the Babington plot

A small English colony was founded at Roanoke, off of North Carolina, the first British colony in North America

Question 12

When did construction of Hardwick Hall begin?

Answer 12

1590

Question 13

What happened in 1588?

Answer 13

King Phillip of Spain launches the Spanish Armada, an attempted naval invasion of Britain

Question 14

What happened in 1599?

Answer 14

The Globe Theatre is opened

Question 15

What law was passed in 1601?

Answer 15

The Poor Law

Question 16

What year was the Essex rebellion?

Answer 16

1601

Question 17

What happened in 1603?

Answer 17

Elizabeth dies and is succeeded by James I