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Jan 28, 1547
Death of King Henry VIII
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Period: Jan 28, 1547 to Jun 6, 1553
Reign of Edward VI
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Jan 31, 1547
Edward Seymour appointed Lord Protector.
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Feb 20, 1547
Coronation of Edward VI
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Oct 14, 1549
Somerset sent to the Tower.
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Oct 11, 1551
Warwick made Duke of Northumberland.
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Dec 1, 1551
Somerset sentenced to death.
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Jan 22, 1552
Somerset Executed.
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Jun 12, 1553
Edward VI names Lady Jane Grey as successor.
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Jun 21, 1553
Royal Patent declares princesses Mary and Elizabeth illegitimate.
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Jul 6, 1553
Death of Edward VI.
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Jul 10, 1553
Lady Jane Grey proclaimed Queen.
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Aug 3, 1553
Mary acclaimed Queen in London, Lady Jane imprisoned.
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Aug 22, 1553
Northumberland executed for treason.
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Oct 1, 1553
Mary I Coronated.
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Period: Oct 1, 1553 to Nov 17, 1558
Reign of Mary I
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Feb 12, 1554
Lady Jane Grey executed, Elizabeth Imprisoned.
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Mar 6, 1554
Mary formally betrothed to Philip of spain.
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May 22, 1554
Elizabeth freed from the Tower.
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Jul 25, 1554
Mary marries Philip of spain.
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Jan 16, 1556
Charles V abdicates.
His son, Philip II, becomes king of spain and the netherlands. His uncle, Ferdinand, becomes Emperor. -
Mar 30, 1558
Mary I alters will to allow only her own children to succeed her.
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Period: Nov 17, 1558 to
Reign of Elizabeth I
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Jan 10, 1559
Philip II proposes to Elizabeth.
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Jan 15, 1559
Elizabeth I crowned in Westminster.
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Feb 10, 1559
Elizabeth declares to parliment she has no plans to marry.
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Jun 5, 1559
Elizabeth rejects marriage proposal from charles, archduke of austria.
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Jun 8, 1561
Sussex proclaims Tyrone traitor.
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Jul 13, 1561
Elizabeth refuses mary of scots safe passage to Scotland.
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Oct 28, 1562
Elizabeth ill with smallpox, Robert Dudley named protector.
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Mar 1, 1564
Elizabeth offers mary of scots Robert Dudley as husband.
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Feb 22, 1565
Archbishop of Armagh put in tower.
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Jul 29, 1565
Mary of scots marries henry stuart, lord darnley.
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Mar 9, 1566
Darnley involved in a coup, resulting in murder of david Rizzio.
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Jun 16, 1566
Birth of Prince James stuart.
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Aug 3, 1566
Shane o'Neill declared traitor after he burns Armagh cathedral.
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Oct 25, 1566
Mary of scots seriously ill at Roxburgh.
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Dec 24, 1566
Royal pardon for Rizzio's murderers.
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Feb 10, 1567
Darnley murdered at Kirk o'field.
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Apr 24, 1567
Mary abducted and imprisoned by Bothwell at Dunbar castle.
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Jun 2, 1567
O'neill killed in brawl.
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Jun 15, 1567
Scots nobles victory at carberry hill, Bothwell flees.
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Jun 20, 1567
Mary imprisoned for complicity in murder of Darnley.
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Jul 24, 1567
Mary abdicates in favour of year old son.
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Jul 29, 1567
prince james proclaimd King James VI of scotland.
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May 15, 1568
mary defeated by moray near glasgow., flees to workington.
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Period: Oct 1, 1568 to Jan 31, 1569
Commissioners at york and westminster hear Mary's case.
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Sep 1, 1569
Duke of norfolk plots against Elizabeth.
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Nov 1, 1569
Rebellion of Northern Earls.
Northern earls (Thomas Percy, Earl of Northumberland and Charles Neville, Earl Westmoreland.) rebel in favour of Mary of scots, held in sheffield castle. They flee to Liddesdale, scotland. -
Nov 1, 1569
Thomas howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, arrested.
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Jan 1, 1570
450 members of earls rebellion executed.
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Jul 8, 1570
Excommunication of Elizabeth by Pope pius V.
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Sep 3, 1571
Mary of scots supporters kill Earl of Lennox.
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Jan 16, 1572
Norfolk found guilty of treason.
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Jan 21, 1572
Queen Elizabeth defers Norfolk's execution.
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Jun 1, 1572
Elizabeth's name linked to duc d'Alencon, pressed for heir by parli.
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Jun 2, 1572
Norfolk executed.
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Aug 29, 1572
Sir Francis Drake siezes Spanish treasure in west indies.
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May 7, 1573
Elizabeth renews treaty of Blois.
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Aug 9, 1573
Drake returns to plymouth with enormous treasures.
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Jun 1, 1578
Elizabeth reconsiders marriage proposals to Duc Alencon.
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Aug 1, 1579
Francis, Duc of Alencon, woos Elizabeth I
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Nov 3, 1579
John Stubbs executed for objecting to marriage proposals between eliza & Alencon.
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Mar 18, 1581
Parli. dissolved after passing law declaring conversion to catholicism treason.
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Apr 4, 1581
Drake knighted aboard the 'Golden Hind'.
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Nov 2, 1581
Francis, Duc d'Alencon, arrives in London to Finalise Marriage negotiations.
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Feb 1, 1582
Alencon leaves England after negotiations fail.
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Death of Duc Alencon. Henri of Navarre heir to French throne.
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'Bond of association' given legal force.
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Spanish relations fall when Philip II has english ships in atlantic ports seized.
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drake sets sail for Spanish-America.
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Hawkins returns to england from spain, reports of planned invasion.
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Mary of scots trial at Fotheringay castle, Northamptonshire.
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Mary declared guilty of treason.
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Elizabeth reluctantly signs death warrant of Mary of scots.
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Execution of mary of scots.
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Drake sets sail from Plymouth to destroy spanish fleet.
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Spanish armada sets sail under Duke medina from Lisbon.
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Spanish armada damageed by fireship attack at calais, forced to flee.
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Storm off Ireland destroys at least 25 spanish ships.
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Murder of catholic king, Henry III of France.
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Spanish plot against James VI discovered.
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King Henry IV converts to catholicism.
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Plot to kill queen discovered.
Spanish assisting Father holt, sir william stanley and captain Edmund yorke. -
Banquet to celebrate 30 years on the throne.
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Sir walter raleigh sets sail to find 'El Dorado'.
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Raleigh returns empty handed.
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Fears of a new spanish armada.
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Spanish fleet headed for Ireland lost at sea.
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Elizabeth forbids publication of Lambeth Articles.
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Death of Drake at sea off panama.
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Spanish raid near plymouth.
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Wreck of spanish fleet bound for Ireland off Finisterre
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Spanish fleet bound for Ireland wrecked in bay of biscay.
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Queen refuses Essex's new year gift.
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Essex tried before private commission on 5 counts.
Desertion, failure in ireland, conferring of knighthoods and appointment of southampton against Queens orders, tone of his letters, meeting with Tyrone.
Queen partly pardons him: deprived of office and placed under house arrest. -
Court alive with talk of Queens imminent death.
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death of Elizabeth I at Richmond.
James VI named successor with dying breath.