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Period: 1509 to 1547
Henry VIII’s reign.
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1517
The Ninety-Five Theses by Martin Luther.
The start of the European Reformation. -
1526
Tyndale Bible.
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1533
Henry VIII married Ann Boleyn.
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1534
Act of Supremacy.
The king was made « Supreme Head » of the Church of England. -
1534
Schism.
Church of England separated from the Roman Catholic Church. -
1536
Monasteries were disbanded and the Crown appropriated their income and land.
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Period: 1536 to 1537
Pilgrimage of Grace.
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1537
Permission was given for an English Bible.
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Period: 1547 to 1553
Edward VI’s reign.
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1549
publication of the Book of Common Prayer.
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Period: 1553 to 1558
Mary I’s reign.
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Period: 1555 to 1558
Protestantism was confined to secrecy as heretics were burned between 1555 and 1558.
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1559
Act of Uniformity.
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Period: 1559 to 1563
The Anglican Compromise.
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1568
Mary become a prisoner in England for 19 years.
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1570
The Pope excommunicated Elizabeth.
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1570
Pope Pius V issued the papal bull "Regnans in Excelsis".
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1571
The 1571 Treasons Act.
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Period: 1577 to
163 persons killed during repression in 26 years.
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1581
The 1581 Act.
"Act to retain the Queen's Majesty's Subjects in their due Obedience". -
The Babington plot.
Young Catholics had sworn to kill Elizabeth and put Mary Stuart on the throne but their strategies were discovered by Francis Walsingham, when he managed to decipher a coded letter between Marie Stuart and this group. -
Execution of Mary Queen of Scots.
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The Defeat of the Spanish Armada.
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James I crowned King of England
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The Gunpowder Plot
a conspiracy devised by a small group of Catholics to blow up Parliament and kill James I -
The “Great Contract”
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The Thirty Years’ War
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James I summoned a Parliament to ask for money for war
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Petition of Rights
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Three Resolutions
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The Personal Rule/ The Eleven Years Tyranny
11 years when the King ruled without calling a parliament -
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The Scottish Crisis
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The Grand Remonstrance
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Charles I marched into The House of Commons with troops and attempted to arrest the 5 MPs
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The Civil War
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Charles declared war on Parliament
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Period: to
The First Civil War and the Victory of Parliament
190 000 Englishmen died -
The New Model Army
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The Royalists and the King surrendered
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Agreement of the People
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nov 1647 : The King escaped from army custody and allied himself with the Scots
nov 1647 : The King escaped from army custody and allied himself with the Scots -
The New Model Army seized the King
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Second Civil War jan/autumn 1648
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Pride’s Purge
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Monarchy and House of Lords abolished, England was declared a Commonwealth (a republic)
march -
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The Interregnum
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The Commonwealth
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King Charles I was executed
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The Instrument of Government
England’s first and only written Constitution -
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The Cromwellian Protectorate
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Cromwell dissolved the Rump
ordered the MPs to leave -
End of the Commonwealth and start of the Protectorate
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Cromwell died
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Charles II issued the Declaration of Breda
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Early Restoration
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Outbreak of Plague
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Great Fire of London
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The Popish Plot
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The Exclusion Crisis
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Charles II died
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The Bill of Rights
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The Act of Settlement
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Act of Union between England and Scotland
