Timeline of events

Question 1

1558

Answer 1

Elizabeth I is crowned queen of England after the death of her sister Mary I

Question 2

1559

Answer 2

Elizabeth implements her religious settlement, including the Act of Supremacy, Act of Uniformity and the Royal injuctions.

Question 3

1560

Answer 3

Treaty of Edinburgh

Treaty of Cateau-Cambresis

Question 4

1563

Answer 4

Statue of Artificers

Question 5

1566

Answer 5

Dutch Revolt

Question 6

1568

Answer 6

Genoese Loan

Mary Queen of Scots flees to England from Scotland

Question 7

1568

Answer 7

Genoese Loan

Mary Queen of Scots flees to England from Scotland

Question 8

1569

Answer 8

Revolt of the Northern Earls to place MQS on the throne.

Question 9

1570

Answer 9

Pope Pius V excommunicates Elizabeth from the Catholic Church

Question 10

1571

Answer 10

The Ridolfi plot

Question 11

1572

Answer 11

Vagabonds act

Question 12

1576

Answer 12

Poor relief act
The Spanish Fury
Pacification of Ghent

Question 13

1577-80

Answer 13

Francis Drake circumnavigates the world

Question 14

1580

Answer 14

Francis Drake is knighted on the deck of the Golden Hind

Question 15

1583

Answer 15

The Throckmorton plot

Question 16

1584

Answer 16

Treaty of Joinville

Question 17

1585

Answer 17

Treaty of Nonsuch
All Catholic priests are ordered to leave the country.
War begins between England and Spain
First English colony is established in Virginia

Question 18

1586

Answer 18

The Babbington plot

Surviving colonists abandon Virgina and return to England

Question 19

1587

Answer 19

Mary Queen of Scots is executed
Second attempt to colonise Roanoke
Colony is established in Roanoke
Singing of the King’s beard by assaulting Spanish fleet in Cadiz harbour.

Question 20

1588

Answer 20

Phillip II launches the Armada

Armada is defeated at the Battle of Gravelines

Question 21

1603

Answer 21

Elizabeth dies.