ELIZABETHAN TIMELINE - EVERY. SINGLE. ONE......................

Question 1

a. 1566

Answer 1

Parliament were discussing Elizabeths marriage openly

Question 1

a. 1562

Answer 1

Elizabeth almost dies of smallpox

Question 2

a. 1568

Answer 2

Mary QoS comes to England

Question 3

a. 1569

Answer 3

Northern Rebellion

Question 4

a. 1571

Answer 4

Ridolfi Plot.
Treason Act.

Question 5

a. 1573

Answer 5

Robert Devereux becomes Earl of Essex

Question 6

a. 1584

Answer 6

Throckmorton Plot

Question 7

a. 1586

Answer 7

Babington Plot

Question 8

a. 1587

Answer 8

Mary QoS executed

Question 9

a. 1588

Answer 9

Spanish Armada

Question 10

a. 1590

Answer 10

Sir Francis Walsingham dies

Question 11

a. 1595

Answer 11

Essex made a Privvy Councillor

Question 12

a. 1596

Answer 12

Military success against the Spanish

Question 13

a. 1598

Answer 13

William Cecil dies

Question 14

a. 1599

Answer 14

Essex made Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
Failure and financial ruin made him fall out of favour with Elizabeth

Question 15

a. 1601

Answer 15

Poor Laws.
Essex Rebellion.

Question 16

a. 1603

Answer 16

Elizabeth dies

Question 17

b. 1559

Answer 17

Act of Uniformity.
Act of Supremacy.

Question 18

b. 1561

Answer 18

Mary QoS arrives in Scottland from France

Question 19

b. 1570

Answer 19

Elizabeth excommunicated by the Pope

Question 20

b. 1571

Answer 20

Rosary beads banned

Question 21

b. 1574

Answer 21

Catholic Missionaries start arriving in England

Question 22

b. 1580

Answer 22

Jesuit priests arrive in England from Europe

Question 23

b. 1581

Answer 23

Separatist (Protestant) Church established under Robert Browne

Question 24

b. 1585

Answer 24

Any Catholic ordained after 1559 considered traitors. Act against Jesuits and Seminary Priests.

Question 25

b. 1587

Answer 25

Singeing of the Spanish King's Beard

Question 25

b. 1593

Answer 25

The 'Statute of Confinement' - Catholics could not travel more than 5 miles from their home without permission. The Act Against Seditious Sectaries made Puritanism an offence.

Question 26

c. 1555

Answer 26

Muscovy company set up

Question 27

c. 1563

Answer 27

Statue of Artificers. A poor law seeking to fix prices, impose minimum wages and regulate training.

Question 28

c. 1564

Answer 28

Sir John Hawkins started the slave trade. Shakespeare was born.

Question 29

c. 1567

Answer 29

First London theatre was built

Question 30

c. 1572

Answer 30

Poverty now a problem of the local government

Question 31

c. 1577-80

Answer 31

Drake circumnavigated the globe

Question 31

c. 1576

Answer 31

Local government required to provide work for the poor

Question 32

c. 1579

Answer 32

The Eastland Company established. Traded timber, tar, canvas and rope with Scandinavia and the Baltic.

Question 33

c. 1581

Answer 33

Drake knighted and becomes Sir Francis Drake. The Levant Company traded in the Mediterranean with currants and dyes.

Question 34

c. 1584

Answer 34

Sir Walter Raleigh given permission to explore and rule any land that was not already claimed

Question 34

c. 1582

Answer 34

Elizabeth sent Ralph Fitch to India and the far east to investigate the possibility of trade there

Question 35

c. 1599

Answer 35

Globe theatre was built

Question 35

c. 1597

Answer 35

Overseers of the poor were created

Question 36

c. 1600

Answer 36

East India Trading Company was set up

Question 37

c. 1601

Answer 37

First Elizabethan Poor Law