Early Modern Period (1534-1801)

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  • Period: 1509 to 1547

    Reign of Henry VIII

  • 1517

    Publication of the Ninety-five Theses by Martin Luther

    Martin Luther denounced in his book the Indulgences and criticked that are given by the Catholic Church
  • 1526

    Appearance of the Tyndale Bible

    The New Testatment
    translated into English by William Tyndale
  • 1534

    Act of Supremacy

    Act of Supremacy that founded the Anglican Church and made King Henry VIII the sole and supreme head of the Church
  • 1534

    Schism

    The church of England separated from the
    Roman Catholic Church
  • Period: 1547 to 1553

    Reign of Edward VI

  • Period: 1553 to 1558

    Reign of Mary Stuart

  • Period: 1558 to

    Reign of Elisabeth I

  • 1559

    The Act of Uniformity

    About Religious belief:
    • every parish had to use the Book of Common Prayer
    • people who did not attend an Anglican service were fined.
  • 1559

    The Act of Supremacy

    New Church organisation as:
    • the authority of the Pope is abolished
    • the authority of the Queen over the Church is restored
    • The Queen Elisabeth I became “Supreme Governor of the Church of England”
  • 1563

    The 39 articles of faith

    (1563-1571): establishment of a new Doctrine that:
    • stated the doctrine (religious belief) of the Church
    • raised 3 important changes : a new ecclesiology (conception of the Church) / a new doctrine of
    Salvation (doctrine du salut) / a new definition of sacraments and of the mass
    • still in use today
  • 1570

    Appearance of the Papal Bull

    Pope Pius V issued the papal bull “Regnans in
    Excelsis”
  • 1571

    The 1571 Treasons Act

    This Act made treason for anyone to say that Elizabeth was not
    the true Queen of England and Wales
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    War with the Spanish Armada

  • The Babington plot

    Young Catholics had sworn to kill Elizabeth and put Mary
    Stuart on the throne but their strategies were discovered
    by Francis Walsingham, when he managed to decipher a
    coded letter between Marie Stuart and this group.

  • execution of Mary Queen of Scots

    She was purposely convicted for complicity and sentenced to death by the Queen Elisabeth I

  • The Gun Powder Plot

    A conspiracy devised by a small group of Catholics to blow up Parliament and kills James I.

  • The Great Contract

    The King would recieve a fixed sum but some MPs members feared the King would not need to call up Parliaments anymore to get money= the King would be independent.
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    The Firthy years War

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    Reign of Charles I

  • Petition of Rights

    They requested the King to recognise the illegality of extra-parliamentary taxation, billeting, martial law, imprisonment without trial.
    Wanted to get Charles to recognise that there were limits to his powers
    Charles reluctantly signed it but was furious, and as MPs were discussing impeaching Lord Buckingham again, he suspended parliament seating.

  • Three Resolutions

    Declared that whoever tried to bring in “Popery or Arminianism” or to alter the protestant forms of the Church of England was an enemy of the Kingdom
    as well as anyone advising the King to collect custom duties without Parliament’s consent

  • The Militia Act

    The army should be placed under the control of a general appointed by Parliament.
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    English Civil War

  • England becomes a Repubilc

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    The Interregnum

    England declared a “Commonwealth” = governed by its people without a King but fails to reach stability and creation of a military protectorate ruled by Cromwell.

  • End of the Commonwealth and start of the Protectorate

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    The Cromwellian Protectorate

    The protectorate(government leads by a protector here, Cromwell)was a military dictarorship in which the country was lead as a republic with a powerful leader.

  • Restoration of the Monarchy

    Charles II delivered the Declaration of Breda. It was a proclamation by Charles II of England in which he promised a general pardon for crimes committed during the English Civil War and the Interregnum for all those who recognized Charles as the lawful king.
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    Reign of Charles II

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    The Clarendon Code

    Is a series of laws passed during the first 5 years of Restoration. Repressive laws towards non conformists and dissenters( people who lived their faith separate from the Anglican church, except for Catholics).
    The Five Miles Act or The act of uniformity 1666 in which all ministers had to swear to conform to the Book of Common Prayer and lead to the restoration of bishops to the House of Lords and to their place in the Church.

  • Outbreak of Plague

  • Great Fire of London

  • The Popish Plot

    Rumour of a plot organised by the French to murder Charles II and replace him by his Catholic brother James II.
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    The Exclusion crisis

    Parliament attempted to debar James II from the succession to the English throne. Charles II in response, dissolved the Parliament.
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    Reign of James II

  • Toleration Act 1689

    established religious pluralism and freedom of worship for all Protestants
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    Reign of Guillaume III

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    Reign of Mary II

  • The Bill of Rights

    It lists King James’ misdeeds and set out the rights of Parliament with basic civil rights. It saw as a political key as it was an essential document of the uncodified British constitution and constitued a model for the US Bill of rights. It was also influenced by John Locke (as: the role of the government is to protect its citizen’s natural rights)

  • The 1701 Act of Settlement

    -Ensured a Protestant succession, ignoring dozens of Catholic heirs
    -made Hanoverian descendants of James I
    -represented a Key role in the formation of the Kingdom of Great Britain