ALL Elizabeth dates

• 1558 = Elizabeth ascends to throne

  given a country £300,000 in debt
• 1559 = The Religious Settlement

  1/3 English nobility and gentry were recusants - didn't agree with the settlement
• 1566 = 37 Puritan priests reign after refusing to wear new, ordered vestments
• 1570 = Pope's excommunication of Elizabeth
• 1569-70 = Northern Earl's Rebellion
• Ridolfi Plot = 1571
• 1583 = Throckmorton Plot

  • result = 11,000 Catholic sympathisers were imprisoned or kept under house arrest
• 1586 = Babington Plot
• February 1587 = Mary Queen of Scots is executed after Elizabeth signs her death warrant
• 1577-80 = Sir Francis Drake captured £400,000 worth of Spanish silver and gold

  by 1580, Spain can't afford to pay their troops in the Netherlands
• 1585 = En gland signs Treaty of Nonsuch with Dutch rebels - England would pay for £7400 soldiers to fight the Spanish
• April 1587 = Drake attacks Spanish port of Cadiz (singeing of the King's beard)
• 1588 = Phillip II Spain orders an armada
• 1588 = Battle of Gravelines
• 1577-80 = Drake's Circumnavigation of the Globe
• 1551-1601 = population grew by 1.2 million
• 1573 = a bad harvest year
• 1584-5 = Colonisation of Roanoke, Virginia expedition