King James Biography & The Gunpowder Plot

By katyf3
  • Period: Apr 19, 1533 to Apr 18, 1540

    King Henry VIII has control of the English Church

    Catholics struggle in a mainly Protestant country
  • Jun 19, 1566

    The birth of King James

    ~Born at Edinburgh Castle
  • Feb 10, 1567

    King James I father dies.

    Lord Darnley Henry Stuart
  • Apr 19, 1567

    Mary, Queen of Scots forced to renounce throne to her infant son

  • Jul 29, 1567

    Crowned King James IV of Scotland

    ~at Stirling Castle

  • Mary, Queen of Scots executed for sanctioning the attempted assassination of Elizabeth

    ~ Mary is beheaded by the order of Queen Elizabeth I of England.

  • Married

    Anne, Daughter of Frederick II of Denmark and Norway, on November 23, 1589

  • Ascended to the throne

    ~36 years old

  • Plot against James to set his cousin Arabella Stuart on the throne.

    ~Sir Walter Raleigh is implicated and imprisoned.

  • Crowned

    ~at Westminster Abbey

  • James imposes a tax on tobacco

  • James publishes his translation of the bible

  • James VI forces episcopacy on the Church of Scotland through the Five Articles of Perth.

  • Died

    ~at Theobalds Park, Hertfordshire
    ~58 years, 9 months, and 7 days~Buried at Westminster Abbey