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Time Line House Of Tudor 1552 - 1603

	Previous Time Line
1553	Edward VI dies ; Accession of Queen Mary, to the throne ( who died 1558 ) .
	Northumberland's plot on behalf of Lady Jane Grey fails: he is executed
	Mary begins a Catholic Counter Reformation
	Chancellor discovers Archangel.
1554	Pole returns; reunion with Rome; Wyatt's Rebellion is suppressed
	Mary marries Philip of Spain.
	England absolved by Cardinal Pole.
	Parliament re-establishes Catholicism
1555	Persecution of Protestants begins
	Bishops Hooper, Ridley and Latimer are burnt
1556	Burning of Archbishop Cranmer.
1557	War with France
	Burnings of Protestants at Smithfield discredit Catholicism
1558	New Book of Rates;
	Loss of Calais to the French.
	Accession of Queen Elizabeth I. ( who died 1603.)
	Sir William Cecil (later Lord Burghley) becomes Principal Secretary
1559	Peace of Cateau - Cambrtsis; religious Settlement in England
	The Elizabethan Settlement establishes the Protestant Church of England restores Royal Supremacy
	and English Prayer Book.
1560	War in Scotland.
	The Treaty of Edinburgh ends French influence in Scotland and ensures a Scottish Reformation
1561	Mary Stuart lands in Scotland.
1562	Rebellion of Shane O'Neill in, Ulster.
	Elizabeth supports, French Huguenots. Hawkins begins Slave Trade with Africa.
	The Thirty-Nine Articles are promulgated
1563	First penal statute against Catholics. English driven, out of Havre.
	Thirty-nine Articles imposed on clergy.
1565	Mary marries Darnley.
1566	Archbishop Parker's Advertisements demand religious conformity
	Darnley murders Rizzio.
	Royal Exchange built.
1567	Murder of Darnley.
	Defeat and death of Shane O'Neill.
1568	Mary Queen of Scot's flees to England.
1569	Revolt of the Northern Earls is suppressed .
1570	Bull of Deposition published. Elizabeth excommunicated and deposed
1571	Conspiracy and death of Norfolk.
1572	Rising of the Low Countries against Alva
	Cartwright's "Admonition to the Parliament ".
	Burghley becomes Lord Treasurer
1575	Queen refuses Netherlands.
1576	First public Theatre in Blackfriars - Landing of the Seminary Priests.
1577	Drake sets sail for the Pacific.
1577 - 80	Francis Drake circumnavigates the world
1579	Lyly's " Euphues ". - Spenser publishes " Shepherd's Calendar."
1580	Jesuit missionaries arrive in England
	Campian and Parsons in England.
	Revolt of the Desmonds.
	Massacre of Smerwick.
1583	Plots to assassinate Elizabeth.
	New powers given to Ecclesiastical Commission.
1584	Murder of Prince of Orange.
	Armada gathers in the Tagus.
	Colonization of Virginia.
1585	War with Spain ;
	The English Army under the Earl of Leicester's sent to Netherlands.
	Drake on the Spanish Coast.
1586	Battle of Zutphen. - Babington's Plot.
1587	Execution of Mary Stuart
	Shakespeare in London. - Marlowe's " Tamburlsaine."
	Drake burns Spanish fleet at Cadiz .
	Mary Stuart Queen of Scots is executed
	Drake sacks Cadiz
1588	Defeat of the Spanish Armada
	Martin Marprelate Tracts.
1589	Drake plunders Corunna.
1590	Publication of Edmund Spencer's " Faerie Queen "
	Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia
	William Shakespeare begins writing Henry VI. And Titus Andronicus are published
1593	Shakespeare " Venus and Adonis ."
	Christopher Marlowe dies. aged 29
1594	Hooker's " Ecclesiastical Polity ."
1594	Bad harvests begin
1596	Jonson's " Every man in his Humour ."
	Descent upon Cadiz.
	Lord Howard of Effingham and the Earl of Essex sack Cadiz
1597	Ruin of the second Armada
	Bacon's " Essays."
1598	Revolt of Hugh O'Neill.
	Burghley and Philip II die
1599	Expedition of Earl of Essex in Ireland.
	Essex mismanages the war in Ireland and is replaced by Lord Mountjoy
1601	Essex's rebellion, execution of Essex.
1603	Death of Elizabeth; James VI of Scotland succeeds Elizabeth I as James I of England
	Union of the crown of England & Scotland
	Mountjoy completes the conquest of Ireland, peace in Ireland;
	Millenary Petition of the Puritans
	Coninues