Dates

• Act of Supremacy

  1559
• Act of Uniformity

  1559
• Royal injunctions

  1559
• Rebellion of Northern Earls

  1560
• Excommunication of Elizabeth

  1570
• Ridolfi

  1571
• Throckmorton

  1583
• Babington

  1586
• Mary Queen of Scots executed

  1587
• Genoese Loan £85,000

  1568
• Spanish Fury

  1576
• Catholic League

  1584
• Treaty of Nonsuch (Elizabeth send 7400 troops to Netherlands)


  1585
• Drake Circumnavigated the globe

  1577 - 1580
• Treaty of Nonsuch

  1586
• Singeing of the king of Spains Beard ( attack on Cadiz)

  1587
• Armada

  1588
• Establishing an English colony in North America

  1580s
• Raleigh landed at Roanoke Island + brought back 2 Native American

  1584
• Roanoke colonisation - ‘Virginia’

  1585
• Francis drake visited and brought back colony to England

  1586
• Second attempt to colonise Roanoke

  1587
• Poor harvest and food shortages

  1550 - 1560s
• Statute of Artificers

  1563
• Vagabonds Act

  1572
• Poor Relief Act

  1576
• Catholic Rebels in Northern Earl Rebellion

  4500 rebels
• Elizabeth troops in Northern Earls Rebellion

  14,000
• Throckmorton Catholics involved

  11,000
• Spanish and French troops in Babington

  60,000
• Genoese loan

  £85,000
• Pacification of Ghent

  17 Dutch provinces demand Spanish troop to leave , political freedom and end to religious persecution
• Treaty of Nonsuch

  7400 troops
• Francis Drake first stealing from Spanish

  £40,000 of Spanish silver
• Francis Drake second stealing from Spanish

  £400,000 , claimed California