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Timeline: Elizabethan England
Events at home
1558
Elizabeth I is
crowned Queen of
England after the
death of her sister,
Mary I
1559
Elizabeth
implements
her Religious
Settlement,
including the Act of
Supremacy, Act of
Uniformity and the
Royal Injunctions
1563
Statute of Artificers
1568
Mary, Queen of
Scots, flees to
England from
Scotland
1569
The Revolt of the
Northern Earls to
place Mary, Queen of
Scots, on the throne
1570
Pope Pius V
excommunicates
Elizabeth from the
Catholic Church
1572
Vagabonds Act
1571
The Ridolfi plot
1576
Poor Relief Act
1583
The Throckmorton
plot
1585
All Catholic priests
are ordered to leave
the country
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1559
Treaty of Cateau-Cambrésis
1560
Treaty of Edinburgh
1566
Dutch Revolt
1568
Genoese Loan
1576
The Spanish
Fury
1576
Pacification of
Ghent
Draft material
1577–80
Francis Drake
circumnavigates
the world
1580
Francis Drake
is knighted on
the deck of the
Golden Hind
1584
Treaty of
Joinville
1586
The Babington
plot
1587
Mary, Queen
of Scots, is
executed
1585
Treaty of Nonsuch
1585
War begins between
England and Spain
1587
Colony is established at Roanoke
1587
Drake ‘singes the King of Spain’s beard’ by leading
an assault on the Spanish fleet in Cadiz harbour
1585
First English colony in
Virginia is established
1586
Surviving colonists abandon
Virginia and return to England
1590
English sailors arrive at
Roanoke to find it abandoned
1603
Death of
Elizabeth
Draft material
Events abroad
1588
Philip II of Spain launches the Armada
The Spanish are ultimately defeated at The Battle of Gravelines
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