Tudors 2.0

By AMMARAHYASINDD
  • Nov 1, 1558

    Elizabeth succeeds to the throne

    Elizabeth succeeds to the throne
    Succeeded to the throne after the death of Mary I. Elizabeth’s first priority on becoming Queen was to return England to the Protestant faith.
  • Apr 1, 1559

    Parliament passes Acts of Supremacy and Uniformity

    Parliament passes Acts of Supremacy and Uniformity
  • Jun 1, 1559

    Royal Injunctions are issued

    Royal Injunctions are issued
    Taken together with the Acts of Supremacy and Uniformity, the Royal Injunctions in July 1559, completed the settlement of religion upon which the Church of England is based. The hybrid thus created was a compromise that left numerous issues unresolved.
  • Jun 2, 1559

    Matthew Parker is appointed as Archbishop of Canterbury

  • Mar 1, 1566

    Parker’s Advertisements are published

  • May 1, 1568

    Mary, Queen of Scots, arrives in England and is put under house arrest

  • Period: Nov 1, 1569 to Feb 1, 1570

    Northern Rebellion

    Rebellion breaks out in the north, led by Catholic earls
  • Feb 1, 1570

    Pope Pius V excommunicates Elizabeth

    issues his bull, Regnans in Excelsis,
  • Apr 1, 1571

    Parliament passes the Treasons Act and an Act to ban the import of papal bulls

  • Apr 2, 1571

    William Strickland introduces his bill to reform the Book of Common Prayer

  • Jun 1, 1572

    An Admonition to the Parliament is published by John Field and Thomas Wilcox

  • May 1, 1574

    First seminary priests arrive from Douai

  • Dec 1, 1575

    Edmund Grindal becomes Archbishop of Canterbury

  • May 1, 1577

    Grindal is confined to his house for refusing to act against prophesyings

  • Nov 1, 1577

    First execution of a Catholic priest as a traitor

  • 1580

    First Jesuits arrive in England

  • John Whitgift becomes Archbishop of Canterbury

  • Whitgift issues his Three Articles

  • Parliament passes the Act against Jesuits...

    Parliament passes the Act against Jesuits, seminary priests and ‘other such like disobedient persons’

  • Mary, Queen of Scots, is executed at Fotheringhay

    Mary, Queen of Scots, is executed at Fotheringhay
    Mary had been tried in October 1586 for her involvement in the Babington Plot, a plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I, and had been found guilty.

  • Anthony Cope presents his ‘bill and book’ in the House of Commons

    Anthony Cope presents his ‘bill and book’ in the House of Commons
    Anthony Cope presented a new ‘bill and book’ in the 1586-7 Parliament, for which he and four other Members were imprisoned in the Tower. Cope’s bill was the last attempt to bring in legislation that would completely overhaul the Elizabethan Settlement

  • The first Marprelate Tracts are published

    The first Marprelate Tracts are published
    The Marprelate Tracts were a series of seven printed pamphlets appearing in late 1588. The tracts, whose authorship was a well-guarded secret, lampooned individual bishops in the Anglican church, and viciously attacked the church in general.