Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Elizabeth Dates 1581-1603
- Advisers, Court + Factions
- 1593- Essex is promoted into the privy council
- 1603- By her death Elizabeth's
privy council had few people inside.
- 1598- Essex draws his sword
- 1601- Essex Rebellion and execution
- 1588- Elizabeth limits patronage
- 1587- Earl Of Essex elizabeths
favourite courtier
- 1581- Cecil dominates government
- 1591- Robert Cecil appointed into Privy Council
- Babington Plot- 1586- Letter from Mary with
plot against Elizabeth= Mary Queen of Scots
executed 1587
- 1598- Lord Burghley dies.
- 1596- Francis Bacon not promoted.
- 1603- Robert Cecil oversees
arrangements for the
succession of James to the
throne after elizabeths death.
- Ireland
- 1596- Start of Irish rebellion
- Hugh o Neill- Earl of Tyrone
- Officially ends in 1603
- Gained help from Spain
- wanted independence from England
- 1585- Hugh O Neill made Earl Of Tyrone
- Battle of Yellowford- 1598- 2,000 troops killed after
being ambushed. heaviest defeat suffered by England
in Ireland.
- 1599- Earl of Essex sets out for Ireland. 16,000 men to Ireland. Essex made a truce with
Tyrone against orders and then left Ireland without permission and stormed into Elizabeths
chamber. Put under house arrest and stripped of titles and income.
- Lord Mountjoy is appointed general in Ireland.
- 1603- Tyrone surrenders in Ireland, allowed to keep
official title but stripped of powers.
- Spain
- 1588- Failed Spanish Armada
- 1584- Start of Anglo-Spanish war
- Cost of war by Elizabeth's death- £400,000+
- 1589- Retaliating naval expedition-
83 ships and 2,000 soldiers
- 1598- Spain sends out another armada
- Religion
- Act Of Supremacy- declares monarch head of the Church of England
- Puritans
- Protest (Church of England)
- Catholics
- Copes Bill and a Book 1587- bill
to change church government
- 1590- Death of key Presbyterians
- 1591- Hacket declares himself the new Messiah
- 1585- Act against
catholic priests. 123
priests killed between
1586-1603
- 1583- Calvinist Whitgift
made Archbishop of
Canterbury
- 1588- Marprelate Tracts Published
- 1592- Royal Proclamation to find Jesuit priests
- 1584- 24 articles- clergy forced to sign
24 articles, helped isolate them and
prosecute those who could try and make
a rebellion against elizabeth
- 1595- Lambeth Articles
- 1601- James wife converts to Catholicism.
- Economy/Finance
- Poor Laws
- Poverty and Vagrancy
- All Fines given to Poor
- Monopolies Crisis- 1596 +1601
- Monopolies act 1601
- Elizabeth left a debt of £400,000 after death
- 1592- Plague outbreak
- Series of poor harvests 1586-87
- 1590-Forced Loan
- 1594- Series of poor
harvests leading to a high
mortality rate
- 1599- Corruption Endemic- Burghleys income
was £3,301 but his official income was £133 .
- 1599- Increased income from court
of wards. income from wardships
rose by 48% in 3 years
- 1603- War with Ireland cost £2,000,000
- 1600- expenditure in both
domestic and foreign affairs
estimated at £459,840. Main
expenditure on Ireland. Queens
income was £374,000
- 1603-extraordinary revenue increased in
£326,006 from "258,419 in 1588
- Parliament
- Throckmorton Plot- 1587
- Monopolies crisis- 1601-1597
- 1584-85- Elizabeth's fifth parliament
- 1587- Sir Peter Wentworth pamphlet on succession-
urges Elizabeth to name a successor
- 1586-87- Elizabeth's sixth Parliament
- 1593- Elizabeth's 8th Parliament
- 1593- Subsidy Bill-
All passed without
complaint
- 1589- Elizabeth's 7th Parliament
- 1589- MP's express concerns about strains of war
- Subsidy Bill-1593
- Social Unrest
- 1587- Plague outbreak
- 1595- Food Riots in London
- series of poor harvests 1594-96
- 1596-protests in London an
East Anglia over ship
money
- 1598- Vagrancy Act- houses of
correction, rouges sent overseas
and convicted vagabonds to be
whipped.
- 1598- Poor Law Acts- pauper
apprenticeships. all parishes to
appoint oversees to the poor
- 1596- Oxfordshire Rising- 3 men and a dog all executed.
- Poor law acts 1601- Remained for
200 years. Redistribution of wealth
from rich to poor was minimal.
- 1601- Forced Loan
- Foreign Policy
- 1589- Henry Navarre crowned King of
France- Elizabeth sends 3,600 troops to
support him.
- 1593- Henry Navarre tactically chose to convert to Catholicism.
- 1584- Catholic league established and signs Treaty
- 1581- Elizabeth begins to fund Dutch rebels
- 1585- Treaty of Nonesuch-
Assassination of William of Orange
leads to treaty. signed by Dutch
Rebels
- 1595- Henry Navarre formally declares War on Spain
- 1598- Treaty of Vervins between Spain and France.
- 1601- Force sent from Spain to Ireland.
allowed Mountjoy to defeat first Tyrone then
Spain.