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Paper 2 Shaping the Nation
Section B - British depth studies
Elizabethan England
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Elizabeth becomes queen
1558
Cecil becomes secretary of state
1558
Mary Queen of Scots executed
1587
Elizabethan religious settlement
1559
Peter Wentworth imprisoned
1576
Deaths of Dudley, Walsingham and Cecil
1588
,
1590
,
1598
Oxfordshire Uprising (due to bad harvests)
1596
St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre
1572
James VI becomes king
1603
Essex's Rebellion
1601
(February)
Population grows from 3 million to 4 million:
1530
-
1600
Sumptuary
Laws
1574
Published plays required licence
1572
All theatres banned in city of London
1596
The Plague killed 17,000 Londoners
1563
Trade restrictions in the Netherlands
1580s
Poor Relief
Act
1576
Vagabonds Act
1572
Elizabethan Poor Law
1601
Drake's circumnavigation
1577-80
Drake captures £40,000 of Spanish silver
1572
Royal charter signed for Raleigh to explore new lands:
1584
Raleigh names Virginia
1586
Hawkins kidnaps 400 West Africans
1562
Drake and Hawkins travel to West Africa and enslave 1300:
1562
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67
Fitch went to be ambassador to China and talks about possible trade in the East:
1582
East India
Company founded
1600
Gilbert reached
Newfoundland
1583
Mercator Map
1569
Reformation
1532
Jesuit missionaries emerge
1580
Fine for recusancy increased to £20
1581
Act against Jesuits and Seminary Priests (becoming a priest = treason):
1585
Lambeth Articles (Calvinist ideas challenging religious settlement)
1595
Papal Bull
1570
Treason Act
1571
Act of Supremacy and Uniformity
1559
Puritan printing presses destroyed
1572
Whitgift
1583
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1604
Thirty-Nine Articles
1563
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