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Text which criticise Cathlicism, with the selling of indulgences etc. Marks the start of the European Reformation. -
The bible is now translated in the vernacular so people don't need priest to interpret it for them. Helped by the invention of the printing press. -
Stars the religious Schism. Divorces his wife. -
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Revision of the mass book, the common book of prayer replaced latin services ans led to rebellions in Cornwall and Devon. -
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Compromise between protestant and catholic church. Elizabeth kept Catholic features and adopted new Protestant ones. -
madi it treason for anyone to say that Elizabeth was not the true Queen. -
After Francis Walsingham told Elizabeth that Mary Queen of Scots was ploting against her (The Babington plot), she decided to execute her, so she could not be replace by her cousin.
Mary was executed wearing a red dress, colour of Catholic martyrs. -
Spain decided to invade England but under Elizabeth a new fleet was constructed and many Spanish ships were wrecked by storms.
The people saw that as a divine sign which had an effect on how they were seeing Elizabeth. -
Son of Mary Queen of Scots.
He was a Calvinist but decided to continue Elizabeth I laws on religion. -
James I had enemies because of how he treated the Catholics (following Elizabeth's example). Some Catholics then decided to blow the parliament up with the King in it. -
James I started this war to help his daughter and son-in-law but died at the beginning of it. His son, Charles I then had to take the lead of it. It had major consequences on the country's finances and also the relationship between Charles I and the Parliament.
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Charles, during his reign, went through: the Thirty Years' War, many parliaments (since he was only dissolving it), The Personal Rule, two Civil Wars, and finally was executed on the 30 Jan. 1649.
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The tensions between Charles I and the parliament resulted in a war. Regarding the flaws and qualities of each, The parliamentarians won the war.
The Parliamentarians, in 1644 created a new army: The New Model Army -
After Being kept prisoner and escaping in 1647, Charles II allied with the Scots but the royalists ended up defeated by Cromwell and Charles II was executed.
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England declared a commonwealth ruled by Cromwell.
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Cromwell became Lord Protector and led the country in a dictarorship way.
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After the death of Cromwell, the government changed seven times in less than a year. Charles promised to forgive all the people who killed his father and to work with the parliament so the people accept him back on the throne. -
The great plague started because of rats and flees and seven thousand people each week and ended with the Great Fire of London in 1666, which burnt most of the rats.
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James II was a catholic so the people decided to invite his daughter, Mary, and her husband William of Orange to invade England and take the power.