Cards (50)

  • 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 - 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 - 1604
  • Thirty-Nine Articles
    1563