elizabeth i key dates and statistics

Question 1

When was Elizabeth’s reign?

Answer 1

1558-1603

Question 2

Religious settlement

Answer 2

1559

Question 3

39 Articles

Answer 3

1563

Question 4

How many clergy refused to accept the religious settlement?

Answer 4

400

Question 5

When was there a succession crisis when Elizabeth fell ill with smallpox?

Answer 5

1562

Question 6

Northern Rebellion

Answer 6

1569

Question 7

Royal army number to deal with the Northern Rebellion

Answer 7

7000

Question 8

Oxfordshire Rising

Answer 8

1596

Question 9

Essex Rebellion

Answer 9

1601

Question 10

How many supporters were there of the Essex Rebellion?

Answer 10

300

Question 11

How many royal progresses did Elizabeth go on during her reign?

Answer 11

25

Question 12

How many parliament sessions were there? How many of these concerned tax?

Answer 12

13
11

Question 13

How many acts were passed?

Answer 13

438

Question 14

How much income was made from crown lands?

Answer 14

£600,000

Question 15

How much money did rents on remaining crown lands make per annum?

Answer 15

£100,000 pa

Question 16

Impact variable from the Madre de Dois?

Answer 16

£77,000

Question 17

As a result of Paulet and Cecil’s work when war broke out with Spain, Mary had paid off Mary’s debt - how much? And built up a reserve of how much?

Answer 17

£300,000
£300,000

Question 18

Tyrone’s rebellion in Ulster

Answer 18

1594-1603

Question 19

Battle of Yellow Ford

Answer 19

1598

Question 20

How many was Essex sent with to Tyrone’s rebellion?

Answer 20

17,000

Question 21

Government ordered all debased money to be returned

Answer 21

December 1560

Question 22

Statute of Artificers

Answer 22

1564

Question 23

Genoese Loan

Answer 23

1568

Question 24

How much money was the Genoese Loan?

Answer 24

£80,000

Question 25

In the 1590s, how much did prices rise by?

Answer 25

36%

Question 26

The Act for the Punishment of Vagabonds and for the Relief of the Poor

Answer 26

1572

Question 27

Act for the Punishment of Rogues, Vagabonds and Sturdy Beggars

Answer 27

1590s

Question 28

What were the fines introduced in 1563 for officials who refused to help the poor?

Answer 28

£2-£20

Question 29

1st time a national poor law tax introduced

Answer 29

1572

Question 30

Act for Setting the Poor to Work and Avoiding Idleness

Answer 30

1576

Question 31

How long did the 1579-1601 Poor Law Acts remain in place for?

Answer 31

250 years

Question 32

East India Company created

Answer 32

1600

Question 33

Treaty of Blois

Answer 33

1572

Question 34

Massacre of the Hugenots

Answer 34

August 1572

Question 35

How many protestants were killed in the Massacre of the Hugenots?

Answer 35

5000

Question 36

Treaty of Joinville

Answer 36

1584

Question 37

Treaty of Vernins

Answer 37

1598

Question 38

Embargo placed of English exports to Antwerp

Answer 38

1563-64

Question 39

Mary Queen of Scots in England

Answer 39

1568

Question 40

Spanish Fury

Answer 40

1576

Question 41

William of Orange assassinated

Answer 41

1584

Question 42

Treaty of Nonsuch

Answer 42

1584

Question 43

Spanish Armarda

Answer 43

1588

Question 44

Further Armardas

Answer 44

1596 and 1597

Question 45

Parker's Book of Advertisements

Answer 45

1566

Question 46

How many clergy refused the Book of Advertisements

Answer 46

37

Question 47

Cartwright's Presbytarian lectures

Answer 47

1570

Question 48

How many ministers were suspended in the South because of the 3 Articles?

Answer 48

300

Question 49

Marprelate Tracts

Answer 49

1588-9

Question 50

Parliament Act against Seditious Sectaries

Answer 50

1593

Question 51

New Treason Act

Answer 51

1571

Question 52

Papal Excommunication Bull

Answer 52

1570

Question 53

How much a month was recusancy?

Answer 53

£20

Question 54

How quick did Catholic priests have to leave in?

Answer 54

40 days

Question 55

In 1603, how many had Catholic sympathies?

Answer 55

10%

Question 56

How many were active recusants in 1603?

Answer 56

2%

Question 57

Throckmorton Plot

Answer 57

1583

Question 58

Babington Plot

Answer 58

1586

Question 59

Ridolfi Plot

Answer 59

1571

Question 60

Mary Queen of Scot's Execution

Answer 60

8th February 1587

Question 61

How many rebels were there in the Northern rebellion?

Answer 61

3500-4000

Question 62

How many did Elizabeth order dead after the Northern rebellion? In reality how many were actually executed?

Answer 62

700 450