Dates and Facts Flashcards
(130 cards)
1
Q
when did HVIII, become king and marry Catherine of Aragon?
A
1509
2
Q
when was Mary I born?
A
1516
3
Q
when was William Cecil born?
A
1520
4
Q
when was Francis Walsingham born?
A
1532
5
Q
when did HVIII divorce Catherine of Aragon & marry Anne Boleyn?
A
1533
6
Q
when were Liz and Robert Dudley born?
A
1533
7
Q
when did HVIII marry Jane Seymour?
A
1536
8
Q
when was Edward VI born?
A
1537
9
Q
when was the dissolution of the monasteries?
A
1536-41
10
Q
when was Christopher Hatton born?
A
1540
11
Q
when was Drake born?
A
c.1540
12
Q
when did MQoS become queen (at 6 days old)?
A
1542
13
Q
when was the new Act of Succession?
A
1544
14
Q
when did HVIII die and Edward VI become king?
A
1547
15
Q
when did Edward VI die and Mary I become queen?
A
1553
16
Q
when was Liz accused of conspiring against Mary I?
A
1554
17
Q
When was the Muscovy Company est.?
A
1555
18
Q
when did Philip II become king of Spain?
A
1556
19
Q
when did Mary I and Liz become queen?
A
1558
20
Q
when was William Cecil made Secretary of State?
A
November 1558
21
Q
when did Francis Walsingham become an MP?
A
1558
22
Q
when did MQoS marry the heir to the french throne, Francis II?
A
1558
23
Q
when did Drake begin working for the Hawkins?
A
1558
24
Q
when was the Act of Supremacy, Act of Uniformity, and the Royal Injunctions?
A
1559
25
when was Matthew Parker made the Archbishop of Canterbury?
1559
26
when did King Philip II propose to Liz?
1559
27
when was the poor rate introduced?
1560s
28
when did MQoS’s husband (Francis II) die and she returned to Scotland?
1560
29
when did Robert Dudley become a Privy Councillor?
1562
30
when did Liz contract smallpox and her doctors told Cecil she wouldn’t survive?
1562
31
when did the civil war in France begin?
1562
32
when did Drake make a trip to the Sierra Leone coast?
1562
33
when did parliament and the privy council ask Liz to find a husband?
1563
34
when were the 39 Articles?
1563
35
when were taxes approved to fund wars against France and Scotland?
1563
36
when did Liz make Robert Dudley the Earl of Leicester?
1563
37
when did MQoS marry Lord Darnley?
1565
38
when did parliament urge liz to marry or nominate an heir?
1566
39
when was Rizzio murdered by Scottish nobles?
1566
40
when did James VI become king of Scotland?
1567
41
when was Darnley murdered?
1567
42
when did MQoS arrive in England?
1568
43
when did Walsingham start working for the government?
1568
44
when did William Allen establish a seminary in Douai?
1568
45
when was Drake attacked at San Juan de Ulua?
1568
46
when was the Northern Rebellion?
1569
47
when were the Thomas Cartwright Cambridge lectures?
1570
48
when was the Papal Bull?
1570
49
when was Walsingham an ambassador in Paris?
1570s
50
when did Liz give William Cecil the title Lord Burghley?
1571
51
when was the Treason Act?
1571
52
when was the Ridolfi Plot?
1571
53
when were taxes approved to help defeat a rebellion in the North?
1571
54
when did Liz make William Cecil Lord High Treasurer?
1572
55
when were harsh punishments for undeserving poor introduced?
1572
56
when were Puritan printing presses destroyed?
1572
57
when was St Bartholomew’s Day Massacre?
1572
58
when did Drake attack Nombre de Dios?
1572
59
when did Francis Walsingham take over from William Cecil as Principal Secretary with special responsibility for foreign affairs?
1573
60
when did Drake return to england after his trip to Nombre de Dios?
1573
61
when did the first of William Allen’s seminary priests arrive in England?
1574
62
when was Edmund Grindal made Archbishop of Canterbury?
1575
63
when were MPs no longer allowed to discuss religion without Liz’s permission?
1576
64
when did Peter Wentworth complain MPs couldn’t discuss what they liked and was sent to the Tower of London for a month?
1576
65
when were taxes raised even though England was at peace?
1576
66
when did Martin Frobisher lead an expedition to investigate the Strait of Anian?
1576
67
when was Francis Walsingham knighted?
1577
68
when did Raleigh first visit America?
1578
69
when did Duke of Parma’s army try to restore control and Parma made Governor of the Netherlands?
1578
70
when was the Eastland company est.?
1579
71
when was John Fields banned from preaching?
1580
72
when were the Brownists est.?
1580
73
when did Jesuits arrive in England?
1580
74
when was the Levant company est.?
1581
75
when did Walter Raleigh come to court?
1581
76
when was Edmund Campion executed?
1581
77
when were recusancy fines increased to £20?
1581
78
when were taxes approved to pay for army to send to Ireland?
1581
79
when did Elizabeth receive a crown as a new year gift?
1581
80
when was John Whitgift made Archbishop of Canterbury and issued the ‘Three Articles’?
1583
81
when was the Throckmorton Plot?
1583
82
when did Robert Devereux come to Court?
1584
83
when was the Bond of Association?
1584
84
when was William the Silent assassinated?
1584
85
when was Raleigh given a Royal Charter to establish colonies in North America and sent Philip Amada and Arthur Barlowe on an exploratory mission?
1584
86
when was the Act Against Jesuits and Seminary Priests?
1585
87
when did Raleigh send 108 settlers to establish a permanent colony on Roanoke Island, Virginia, and was knighted?
1585
88
when was the Babington Plot?
1586
89
when did Drake visit the now-abandoned colony on Roanoke Island, Virginia?
1586
90
when were taxes approved for war against Spain?
1586, 1593
91
when was MQoS executed?
1587
92
when did Liz make Christopher Hatton the Lord Chancellor?
1587
93
when did the second group of settlers reach Roanoke?
1587
94
when did Drake attack Cadiz?
1587
95
when did Robert Dudley die?
1588
96
when was the Spanish Armada launched?
1588
97
when were the Marprelate Tracts discovered?
1589
98
when were taxes raised to pay cost of defeating armada in ‘88?
1589
99
when did Sir Francis Walsingham and Blache Perry die?
1590
100
when did supply ships reach Roanoke but all planters had disappeared?
1590
101
when was Thomas Cartwright imprisoned?
1590
102
when did Christopher Hatton die?
1591
103
when did James Lancaster sail to India around the Cape of Good Hope?
1591
104
when was Thomas Cartwright imprisoned again?
1591
105
when was Raleigh disgraced?
1592
106
when did Liz make Robert Devereux a member of the Privy Council?
1593
107
when were Henry Barrow and John Greenwood hung?
1593
108
when was the Act Against Seditious Sectaries?
1593
109
when was the State of Confinement?
1593
110
when did the Nine Years’ War or Tyrone’s Rebellion, in Ireland, begin?
1594
111
when was the Poor Law?
1597
112
when did William Cecil and Katherine, Countess of Nottingham, die?
1598
113
when did the civil war in france end?
1598
114
when did Liz send Essex to deal with Tyrone’s Rebellion?
1599
115
when was East India Company set up?
1600
116
when did Liz take away Essex’s monopoly on the distribution of sweet wines?
November 1600
117
when was the final Poor Law?
1591
118
when was Essex executed for treason?
25th Feb. 1601
119
when was the Essex Rebellion?
8th Feb. 1601
120
when did Liz die, James I is king of England and Scotland?
1603
121
what did the 1544 Act of Succession do?
returned both Mary and Elizabeth to the line of succession behind Edward, any potential children of Edward, and any potential children of Henry by his then wife, Catherine Parr, or any future wife Henry might have.
122
what did the act of supremacy say?
declared Elizabeth the Supreme Governor of the Church of England, instituted an Oath of Supremacy, requiring anyone taking public or church office to swear allegiance to the monarch as head of the Church and state.
123
what did the act of uniformity say?
set out the groundwork for the Elizabethan church: eg restored 1552 version of the English Prayer Book but kept many of the familiar old practices and allowed for two interpretations of communion, one Catholic and one Protestant.
124
what were the Royal Injunctions?
A set of instructions to the clergy. Included instructions on how people should worship God, how religious services were to be conducted, to ban 'fake' miracles and to ban and report recusants
125
when did the Tudor family begin their rule?
when HVII became king in 1485
126
when was Liz courted by Duke Francis of Anjou?
1570s
127
when were the first theatres built?
1570s
128
when did english sailors begin to take an interest in global exploration?
from the 1560s
129
when did english merchants become interested in trade with asia and begin exploring routes there?
from the 1570s
130
