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Period: 1509 to 1547
Reign of Henry VIII
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1517
Martin Luther wrote the Ninety-Five Theses
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1526
The Tyndale Bible
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1534
The Act of Supremacy
Henry VIII became the 'Supreme Head of the Church of England'.
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Period: 1545 to 1563
The Council of Trent
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Period: 1547 to 1553
Reign of Edward VI
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1549
The Book of Common Prayer
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1553
Mary I became the first Queen of England
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Period: 1553 to 1558
Reign of Mary I
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Period: 1553 to
Poor Laws
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Period: 1558 to
Reign of Elizabeth I
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1559
The Act of Supremacy
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1559
The act of Uniformity
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Period: 1559 to 1579
Royal Progesses
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Period: 1563 to 1571
The 39 Articles of Faith
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1569
The Northern Rebellion
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1570
The Papal Bull "Regnans in Excelcis"
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1571
The Treason Act
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1581
The 1581 Act
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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. -
The Execution of Mary Stuart
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Speech to the troops at Tilbury
“I know I have the body of a weak woman but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and a King of England too”. -
The Defeat of the Spanish Armada
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Reign of James I
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the Gunpowder Plot
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The Great Contract
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The King James' Bible
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The Thirty Years' War
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Reign of Charles I
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The Petition of Rights
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The Three Resolutions
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Period: to
The Personal Rule
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Introduction of the New Prayer Book
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Period: to
The Scottish Crisis
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The Scottish National Covenant
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The Grand Remonstrance
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The Militia Act
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The Irish Rebellion
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Charles I marched on Parliament with armed troops
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Charles I officially declared war on Parliament
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The First Civil War
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The Battle of Naseby
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The King and Royalists surrendered
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The King escaped custody and allied himself to the Scottish
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The New Model Army seized the King
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The Agreement of the People
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The Pride's Purge
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Period: to
The Second Civil War
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Monarchy and House of Lords abolished, England was declared a Commonwealth
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Period: to
The Interregnum
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Period: to
The Commonwealth
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King Charles I was executed
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The Blasphemy Act
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The Instrument of Government
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Cromwell dissolved the Rump Parliament
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End of the Commonwealth
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Period: to
The Cromwellian Protectorate
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Cromwell died
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The Declaration of Breda
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Period: to
Reign of Charles II (Early Restoration)
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Period: to
The Clarendon Code
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Restoration of the King
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The Act of Uniformity
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The outbreak of the Plague
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The Great Fire of London
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The Popish Plot
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Period: to
The Exclusion Crisis
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Period: to
Reign of James II
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The King's wife gave birth to a son
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William of Orange became the King of England
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The Toleration Act
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The Bill of Rights
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The Act of Settlement
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The Act of Union Between England and Scotland