ELIZABETH

• 1553


  Elizabeth is born
• 1536

  Anne Boelyn executed
• 1547

  Edward VI becomes king
• 1549


  Edward orders execution of Thomas Seymour
• 1553

  Mary I becomes Queen
• 1554 


  Mary imprisons Elizabeth
• 1558


  Elizabeth becomes Queen
• Parliament in Elizabethan England

  • influence over taxers and passed new laws
  • members were wealthy and educated gentry
  • Elizabeth decided whether to listen to them or not
• Privy council

  • Elizabeth’s main advisors who ran the country day to day
  • selected by Elizabeth
  • dealt with a range of issues including religion and military
  • leader of the privy council was also know and Secretary of State
• Lord lieutenants

  • took care of administration at a local level
  • in charge of raising the militia
  • postion of influence and power
• Justices of the peace

  • selected from the local gentry
  • enforced laws
  • like judges
  • respected figure at the local level
• 1566


  Parliament begins to openly discuss possible marriages
• Robert Dudley

  • Elizabeth’s childhood friend and one of her favourites
  • senior member of the prive council
  • wife died in a fall but was unable to marry elizabeth after rumours saying he killed his wife deliberately