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.