15471548Iconocl

asm

Invasion of

Scotland

Somerset’s

Protectorship

Chantries

Factional

rivalry

Debasement

& Inflatio

n

Enclosure

Influenza

15491550Act of

Uniformity

Western

Seymour

Kett’s

Somerset falls

Book of Commo

n Prayer

Northumberland

Lord PresidentRepeal

of Sheep

Tax

Treaty of

Boulogne

15521553

2nd Act of

Uniformity

Scotland

Somerset

42 Article

s Book of

Common Prayer

Marian Rising

Edward

Act of Repeal

Devise & LJG

1554 1555 1556Papacy

Restored

Marriage to Philip Wyatts

Heresy ActsBurnings Cramn

er

Harvest

failure &

famine Jane Grey

2nd Act of

Repeal

15571558

War with France

Harvest fails

(M)Loss of Calais

Mary Elizabe

th (E)Privy Council

Cecil appointe

d

Influenza

1559 1560 1562

Act of Uniformity

Cateau-Cambré

sis

Elizabeth’s

coronation

Lords of Cong.

Smallpox

crisis

Act of Suprem

acy39 Article

s Edinburgh

Support for

French

Hug’ts

15631564

39 Article

s

Parliament: pressure to marry

TroyesConvocationFoxe’s Book

of Martyr

s

Neth’ds trade embargo

Parliament: pressure to marry

15661567Parker’

s Advertise

mentsVestments

controversy

Duke of Alba to the

Netherlands

Faction:

marriage to

Charles

Parliament: pressure to marry

MQS abdicat

es

15681569

Douai

San Juan

MQS in Englan

d

Scottish

Border issue

MQS/Norfolk marria

ge conspir

acy

Northern

Spanish Bullion

15701571Excommun

ication

of Elizabe

th Earl of Moray

Treasons Act

Northern suppressed

Ridolfi Plot

W. Cecil =

Ld Burghl

ey

Parliament

in sessio

n

39 Article

s

1572 1573 1574

Admonitions

Sea Beggar

sDrake in W.I.

Walsingham Sec of State

Blois

St Bart’s Massacre, Paris

Missio

nary Priests Arrive

Neths trade returns

Parl. pressure over heir Norfolk

15751576Grindal made ABC New

Spanish offensiv

e in Netherl

ands

Spanish

‘Fury’

Parl: Peter

Wentworth

Act for relief of

poor

Pacification

of Ghent

15771578

Cutherbert Mayne

(Sem Priest)

Drake begins circumnavigation

Faction:Marriage

& successio

n

Anjou marriage negotiations

Faction:

supporting

Netherlands

Grindal suspended

Prophesyings

?

15791580

Faction:

marriage to Anjou

& succes

sion Jesuits

Spain annexes Portugal

Prophesyings

15811582Act of Due Obedience

Classis system emerg

es throug

hout 1580s

Campion(Jesuit)

15831584Whitgift made ABC

Throckmorton Plot

Spanish Ambassad

or expelled

Bond of

Association

Whitgift’s Articles

Catholic League FormedWilliam of

Orange assassinate

dJoinville

15851586

Act agains

t Jesuits

and Sem.

Priests

Nonsuch

Parliament in session

Parry plot

Babington Plot

Food riots

in Hampsh

ire

Mary, Queen of Scots

15871588Bill and BookAttack

on Cadiz

Marprelate Tracts ARMAD

A!

Leicester

1589 1590 1591Archpri

estDrake’

s expedition to Portug

al

Walsingham

Hatton

Cecil promote

d

1592 1593 1594Drake

attacks Lisbon

Faction: Essex joins

council

Madre de Dios

=£££

Frobisher and Cumberland, twice

Bad harvests start

15951596

Drake and

Hawkins fail

in West Indies

Sack of Cadiz

Cecil Sec of State

Worst harvest

of century

Tyrone’s

Anti enclosure and food riots in South

Faction:

Essex’s poor

leadership

15971598

Poor Law

Poor harvest

Raid on

Puerto Rico

Burghley

Famine

Parliament in session

Relief of Poor

ActRiots in London across 1590s

15991600

Cecil Master of the Rolls

Mountjoy

replaces

Essex in

Ireland

Monopolies

issue Revised Poor

Law

Essex returns

form Ireland

1601 1602 1603

Golden Speech

Essex

Elizabeth

Tyrone’s

Parliament in session

James

End of War with

Spain in

1604