Elizabeth

• Elizabeth inherits the throne


  1558
• Religious Settlement 


  February 1559
• Death of Francis of France. Mary QoS returns to Scotland 


  1961
• Mary Queen of Scots arrives in England


  1968
• Reboot of the Northern Earls


  Nov-Dec 1969
• Pope excommunicates Elizabeth 


  1570
• Ridolfi Plot


  1571
• Vagabonds Act


  1572
• Walsingham is Secretary of State and 'spymaster'


  1573
• Act for the Relief of the Poor (first House of Correction- Bridewell)


  1576
• The Theatre (first since Roman times) opens just outside London 


  1576
• Drake completes circumnavigation 


  1580
• Throckmorton Plot 


  1583
• Bond of Association 


  1584
• Reconnaissance of Virginia 


  1584
• Assassination of William of Orange 


  1584
• Raleigh's first attempt to colonise Virginia 


  1585
• Dudley sent to the Netherlands with troops = War with Spain 


  1585
• Babington Plot


  1586
• Execution of Mary Queen of Scots


  8 Feb 1587
• Raleigh's second attempt to colonise Virginia- The Lost Colony 


  1587
• Spanish Armada


  July-Sep 1588