November 17 1558 - Elizabeth becomes Queen of England.
January 15 1559 -Coronation of Elizabeth.
May 8 1559- Act of Supremacy; restores anti-papal laws of Henry VIII and reasserts Crown's power over the Church.
May 10 1559- Act of Uniformity: imposes revised Book of Common Prayer in churches.
1562 October;- Queen Elizabeth gravely ill from smallpox at Hampton Cour.
1562 October -John Hawkins begins African slave trade from Sierra Leone to
Hispaniola
1563 March -Poor Relief Act; comples rich paishes to help poorer ones
1563 June-October: -severe outbreak of plague, over 20,000 die in London
1564 April 11- Peace Treaty of Troyes with france, Queen elizabeth receives 222,000 crowns to renounce claims to Calais
1564-5- Hawkins's second voage to South America, he introduces tobacco to England
1568 May 16,- Mary, Queen of Scots arrives in England after being forced to abdicate the throne of Scotland.
1568 October -Conference of York: anglo-Scottish inquiry into Queen Mary's alleged complicity in the murder of her husband Darnley, Elizabeth transfers inquiry to Westminster in late November
1569 January 10: Queen Elizabeth declares murder complicty of mary, Queen of Scots not proven
1570 May -Papal bull of 25 Feb, Regnans in Excelsis, exommunicating Queen Elizabeth, made public in London
1570 -Potatoes introduced into Spain from America
1572 -Treaty of Blois, Anglo-French cooperation against Spain, projected royal marriage with Francois, Duke of Alencon.
1575 March: Queen elizabeth agrees to top aiding dutch rebels in return for Spanish opening of Antwerp to english traders
1575 November 14 -Queen Elizabeth declines sovereignty of the Netherlands
1579 -Treaty of alliance with Dutch, under William of Orange
1580 September 26- Drake completes circumnavigation of the globe, his ship is renamed The Golden Hind
1581- Act against Reconciliation to Rome; heavy fines for hearing mass and for recusancy (non-attendance at the parish church)
1581 October- Duc d'alencon comes to Whitehall Palace to sign marriage treaty with Elizabeth, 20 years his senior in age. Renewed Commons oppossition to Alencon marriage.
1585 July 7 -Roanoke colony established in Virginia
1585 September 3,-Treaty of Nonesuch, promises dutch an expeditionary force, sent under Earl of Leicester, 17 Dec
1587 February 8- Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots
1588 July -August :Spanish Armada defeated by English fleet.
1594 -Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, leads Catholic rising in Ulster
1598 -Poor Relief Act, local poor rate, workhouses set up.
1501 -Earl of Essex leads abortive revolt in London against Queen Elizabeth, he is executed for treason February 25
1603 -March 24 Queen Elizabeth dies at Richmond Palace
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