Elizabeth I Flashcards
(176 cards)
1
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Henry dies
A
1547
2
Q
Succession act
A
1544
3
Q
Elizabeth’s coronation becomes a public holiday/holy day
A
1576
4
Q
Elizabeths Coronation
A
January 1559
5
Q
Anointed
A
15 January 1559
6
Q
Cateau-cambresis
A
Easter 1559
7
Q
Act of supremacy
A
May 1559
8
Q
Act of uniformity
A
May 1559
9
Q
Royal injunctions
A
57 of them – July 1559
10
Q
Prayer book
A
1559
11
Q
Thirty nine articles
A
1563
12
Q
How many refused the religious settlement
A
400
13
Q
Act of exchange
A
1559
14
Q
Phillip offers to marry Elizabeth
A
1559
15
Q
Treaty of Edinburgh
A
1560
16
Q
French state collapses
A
1562
17
Q
Treaty of Hampton court
A
September 1562
18
Q
Peace of Troyes
A
1564
19
Q
La Harve surrenders
A
June 1563
20
Q
Council of Trent begins
A
1545
21
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Council of Trent ends
A
1563
22
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Phillip banned the import of English cloth to the Netherlands
A
1563
23
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Both sides back down on trade bans
A
1564
24
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Dudley and Elizabeth in a serious romance
A
1560
25
Amy Robsart dies
September 1560
26
Elizabeth gets small pox
October 1562
27
Elizabeth chooses no marriage policy
1563
28
Negotiations with Archduke Charles
1560s
29
Duke of Alencon
1579
30
Gentry class makes up one percent of population
Wolsey’s survey in 1524 (4,500 families)
31
Number of peers (1st data)
51 in 1547
32
Number of peers (2nd data)
55 1603
33
Number of knights changes from – to
300 to 600
34
What percentage of nobility did knights own
Less than 10%
35
Population in 1520s
2.3 million
36
Population 1550
3 million
37
Population at the end of Elizabeths reign
4 million
38
Bad harvest
1549
39
Outbreaks of plague
1551 and 1552
40
Outbreaks of influenza
1556 and 1558
41
Good harvests
1537 – 1542, 1546 – 1548
42
Bad harvests
1549 – 1551
43
Inflation across 16th century
400 per cent
44
Attempt to control beggars
1552
45
Attempt to control vagabonds -Statute of Artificers
1563
46
Act of parliament – distinction between idle and unemployed
1572
47
Poor relief act
1572
48
Houses of correction
1576
49
Social problems are acute
1590
50
Food rebellions in London
1595
51
Food rebellions in East Anglia
1596-97
52
Poor law act
1597
53
Poor law act (2)
1601
54
Royal progresses under Elizabeth
25
55
Votes on Elizabeth allowance – How much? When?
£40,000 in 1563
56
Icons the queen compared herself to
Goddess Astrada, Virgin Mary, Fairie Queen (Gloriana)
57
Sargent painter
1563
58
Royal household employed
15,000 people
59
Dudley Earl of Leicester
1564
60
Cecil becomes lord Burghley
1571
61
Hatton taken ill
1573
62
Walter Raleigh becomes a favourite of Elizabeth
1580s
63
Sir Francis Walsingham – one of the Queens principle secretaries
1573-1590
64
Walsingham’s spry network
1580s
65
Half peers had town houses in London
1590
66
Annual hunting tournament
1572
67
Number of musical instruments Elizabeth had
Over 60
68
Play Richard II – Essex Rebellion
1601
69
2760 books published
Up to 1579
70
4370 books published
1580 onwards
71
Number of Privy council – Mary’s reign
Between 40 to 50
72
Number of Privy Council Eliz reign
Under 20
73
Instructions to the major and city corporations of Newcastle regarding the arrival of German miners
July 1565
74
Instructions about arrest of catholic troublemakers in Lancashire
November 1574
75
During what period did the council meet 6 times a week
1590s
76
Average 50 Jps per county
1600
77
MPs anger Elizabeth about succession question
1566
78
A puritan party is formed
1563-66
79
Peter Wentworth campaigns for freedom of speech and is put in the tower
1576
80
Norfolk election case commons asserted its right to dispute the results of an election
1586
81
Puritan members of commons furious at Archbishops attack of preachers
1584
82
Queen does not want MPS talking about the church (free speech argument)
1593
83
Parliament clash with the queen about monopolies
1601
84
Parliaments called in Eliz time
13 – short sessions
85
Why did queen usually use the veto
To get them to redraft bills
86
Parliament meet about monopolies
1597-8
87
Church lands sold off raising -
£800,000
88
Parliament passes a law – those who refuse oath of supremacy twice will be sentenced to death and any priest taking giving mass will be sentenced to death
1563
89
No catholic priest executed for mass until
1577
90
Pope hostile to religious settlement instructs Catholics not to go to church
1567
91
Spanish Duke of Alba sent to the Netherlands – fears in England – Spanish power close
1567
92
Mary queen of Scots seeking sanctuary
1568
93
Seminary for priests founded in Douai by William Allen
1568
94
Revolt of the northern earls
1569
95
Elizabeth is excommunicated
1570
96
Ridolfi Plot
1571
97
Bartholomew’s day slaughter
1572
98
A new treason act imposed
1572
99
First four missionary priests arrive in England
1574
100
100 missionary priests
1590s
101
Jesuit priests arrive
1580s
102
Edward Campion – Jesuit priest executed
1581
103
Parliament act saying mass had a 200 mark fine and imprisonment and failure to attend church £20
1581
104
Act against Jesuit priests – leave within 40 days
1585
105
Vesteruan Controversy
1566
106
Book of advertisements
1566
107
Thomas Cartwright gives lectures
1570
108
John field publishes admonishments of parliament
1572
109
Thomas Strickland suggests changes to the structure of the church
1571
110
Not debate religious matters in parliament
1576
111
News reaches Elizabeth about prophesising
1576
112
Edmund Grindal dies
1583
113
John Whitgift appointed Canterbury
1583
114
Demands in parliament by Anthony cope for a Presbyterian structure
1586-87
115
John copping and Elias Thacker hanged for distributing pamphlets
1583
116
Marprelete tracks
1588-89
117
Robert hooker and the laws of Ecclesiastical polity
1593
118
Mary Queen of Scots Born
1542
119
MQS goes to France
1545
120
MQS marries heir of French throne
1558
121
MQS husband becomes French King
1559
122
MQS husband dies
1560
123
MQS goes to Scotland
1561
124
MQS marries Lord Darnley
1565
125
MQS has a son
1566
126
MQS lover David Rizzo killed in front of her
1566
127
Darnley ill
1567
128
Plot to kill Darnley by Earl of Bothwell
Feb 1567
129
MQS forced to abdicate
1567
130
MQS flees to England
1568
131
MQS deposition legally examined
1568-69
132
Acting regent of Scotland
Earl of Murrey
133
Ridolfi plot
1571
134
Throckmorton plot
1583-4
135
Babington plot
1586
136
Execution of MQS
Feb 1587
137
Phillip inherits Netherlands
1555
138
Phillip protests to Elizabeth about her support for the Huguenots rebels
1562
139
Outbreak of revolt in Netherlands Alba sent over
1566-7
140
Spanish ambassador expelled
1568
141
Spanish ships attack John Hawkins fleet
1568
142
Elizabeth intercepts bullion intended for albas army
1568 December
143
Trade restored
1573
144
Elizabeth considers marriage with Anjou
1570
145
Treaty of Blois
1572
146
Rebels seize port of brill
1572
147
Unpaid Spanish solders mutinied
1576
148
Elizabeth begins to fund resistance to Parma in the Netherlands
1581
149
Treaty of Joinville – French and Spanish
1584
150
Treaty of nonsuch
1585
151
Spain attempt to invade England
1588
152
Battle of Gravelines
29 July 1588
153
Drake’s raid on Cadiz harbour
1587
154
Spanish armada defeated
1588
155
Drake led a failed expedition to Portugal
1589
156
Drake and Hawkins led expedition to Caribbean
1595
157
Raids on Spain and attempted Spanish Armadas
1596-97
158
Death of Phillip II
1598
159
Fourth Spanish armada lands in Ireland
1601
160
Peace between Ireland and Spain
1603
161
Muscovy Company Established
1553
162
John Hawkins established Trade war Africa
1562
163
Frobisher’s expeditions to Canada looking for north-west Route
1576-78
164
Drakes voyage around the world
1577-80
165
Publication by Richard Hakluyt
1587
166
Lancaster set up trade with the east indies
1591
167
Raliegh sailed up the Orinoco in Guiana
1597
168
East India company established
1600
169
Fist series of bad harvests – closing years
1594
170
Food riots In various parts of the country
1595-97
171
Rebellion in Ireland led by Hugh O’Neil
1598-1603
172
Essex rebellion
1601
173
Spanish defeated at Kinsale
1602
174
Elizabeth dies
24th March 1603
175
Treaty of Nonsuch troops and cavalry given to spain
5,000 troops, 1,000 cavalry
176
What did England get in return for helping rebels
Flushing and Brill and Elizabeth accepted title of lord protector of Netherlands
