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Period: 1500 to
Early Modern Period
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Period: 1509 to 1547
Reign of King Henry VIII
He's the son of the 1st Tudor king and became the king when he was 17 years old. He initiated the schism: the church of England was separated from the Roman Catholic Church.
He is one of the most famous and emblematic English Kings. -
Oct 31, 1517
Martin Luther wrote the Ninety-Five Theses
Critique of the indulgences(+catholicism): according to him, salvation was free, one didn't have to pay anything to obtain it -
1521
Excomunication of Martin Luther from the catholic church
Since he criticised the catholicism in the Ninety Five Theses, he was excommunicated from the church and declared a heretic -
1526
Publication of the Tysdale Bible
William Tysdale translated the New Testament into English -
1534
Act of Supremacy (1)
Established the Anglican church and made King Henry VIII the sole and supreme head of the church -
Period: 1534 to 1553
Protestant Reformation
Separation of the Church of England from the Roman Catholic Church, England became Protestant -
Period: 1536 to 1537
Pilgrimage of Grace
They were greatest rebellions ever faced by a Tudor monarch and lasted 6 months. They happened in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire.
People were against the dissolution of the monasteries and the Reformation, they had few demands and economic grievances were also a cause of the rebellions -
1537
Permission for an English Bible
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Period: 1545 to 1563
Council of Trent
Attempt of the Catholic Church to correct some of the abuses of the church. It was held in Trent, Italia.
During that time, the Pope’s hostility to the Elizabethan religious settlement was growing
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Period: 1547 to 1553
Reign of Edward VI: The young king
Son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour, he was only 9 years old when his father died and during his reign a series of measures pushed England towards Protestantism. -
Period: 1553 to 1558
Reign of Mary I
She was the daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon and she restored Catholicism in 18 months.
She repealed the Protestant legislation of her father and half-brother. -
Period: 1553 to 1554
Restauration of the Catholicism by Mary I
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Period: 1555 to 1558
Bloody Mary
During this period, Protestantism was confined to secrecy and over 200 Protestants were burnt alive, they were considered as heretics -
Period: 1558 to
Reign of Elizabeth I
She was the half sister of Mary I, an unmarried woman who became the queen at 25 years old.
Her reign is associated with the idea of a Golden Age for the country.
She was a sincere protestant and didn't pursue her sister's dream with the catholicism, and chose to restore the protestantism -
1559
Act of Supremacy (2)
Elizabeth I abolished the authority of the Pope
and restored the authority of the Queen over the Church. She became “Supreme Governor of the Church of England”. -
1559
The Act of Uniformity
Religious belief were every parish had to use the Book of Common Prayer.
People who did not attend an Anglican service were fined. -
Period: 1563 to
The 39 articles of Faith
Beginning of the doctrine of the Church which is a religious belief (still in use today)
They were 3 important changes a new conception of the Church) / a new doctrine of Salvation and a new definition of sacraments and of the mass -
1570
Excommunication of Elizabeth I by the Pope
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1571
Treasons Act
Made it treason for anyone to say that Elizabeth was not the true Queen of England and Wales -
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 (Mary STUART)
She was the daughter of King James V of Scotland and Mary of Guise.
In 1568, Mary was involved in a civil war in Scotland, and had to flee to England. After this was kept her under close watch by Elisabeth in England for 19 years because she was a threat to her: for catholics she was the legitimate heir and many plotted to replace Elizabeth by Mary Stuart. -
Speech to the troops at Tilbury
The queen made this speech in Tilbury, Essex, in order to rally the troops who were preparing to repel the invasion of the Spanish Armada -
The Defeat of the Spanish Armada
Philip II, the Catholic King of Spain supported several plots against Elizabeth because to support the cause of Protestantism, Elizabeth supported the Dutch Revolt against Spain.
As a result, the King of Spain attempted to invade England
The England ended victorious, this victory acted as proof of the extraordinary qualities of Elizabeth -
Union Act of 1801
Union of the United Kingdom, Great Britain and Ireland, creating the Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland