key dates

• 17 march 1554 - elizabeth 1 was imprisoned in tower of london by mary 1
• 17 november 1558 - elizabeth became queen
• 1570-80 - seminary priests
• 1571 - treason act
• 1571 - excommunication - banned from the catholic church
• 1571 - ridolfi plot
• 1572 - st Bartholomew's day massacre - wiping out thousands of protestants
• 1580 - campion's mission
• 1569 - northern rebellion
• 1586 - babington plot
• 1568 - arrival of mary queen of scots
• 1583 - throckmorton plot
• 1583 - murder of william of orange
• 1585 - bond of association
• 1585 - war with spain
• 1587 - mary queen of scots execution
• 1588 - spanish armada