Early modern period

  • Period: 1509 to 1547

    Henry VIII's reign

  • Martin Luther's Ninety-Five Theses
    1517

    Martin Luther's Ninety-Five Theses

    Martin Luther wrote and published the Ninety-Five Theses
  • The Tyndale Bible
    1526

    The Tyndale Bible

    The New Testatment was translated into English by William Tyndale
  • Act of supremacy 1534
    1534

    Act of supremacy 1534

    Defined the right of Henry VIII to be supreme head of the Church of England
  • Period: 1536 to 1537

    Pilgrimage of Grace

    The monasteries dissolution process was interrupted by rebellions in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire
  • Permission for an English bible
    1537

    Permission for an English bible

    English bible was allowed (instead of a Latin one) and soon made mandatory in every Church
  • Period: 1547 to 1553

    Edward VI's reign

    Edward VI died at the age of 15 from tuberculosis
  • Publication of the book of common prayer
    1549

    Publication of the book of common prayer

    Was allowed under the reign of Edward VI thanks to the revision of the mass-book
  • Period: 1553 to 1558

    Mary I's reign

  • Restauration of Catholicism
    1554

    Restauration of Catholicism

    Mary I restored Catholicism in 18 months
  • Period: 1558 to

    Elizabeth I's reign

  • Act of Uniformity
    1559

    Act of Uniformity

    Legislation stating that :
    - every parish had to use the book of common prayer
    - people who did not attend an anligan service were fined
  • Elizabethan religious settlement
    1559

    Elizabethan religious settlement

    Queen Elizabeth wished to create a new moderate religious settlement derived from her father's (Henry the VIII) with both catholic and protestant ideas
  • 1559

    Act of supremacy 1559

    Legislation of Elizabeth the first which made her « superme governor of the church of england »
  • Period: 1563 to 1571

    39 articles of faith

    3 important changes :
    - new ecclisiology (conception of the church)
    - new doctrine of Salvation (how we can be sent to heaven)
    - new definition of sacraments and of the mass
  • The Northern Rebellion
    1569

    The Northern Rebellion

    Rebellion against religious reforms
    Attempt to replace E. by Mary Queen of Scots
    Led by the earls of Westmorland and Northumberland
  • Pope Pius's Papal Bull « Regnans in excelsis »
    1570

    Pope Pius's Papal Bull « Regnans in excelsis »

    A violent text which excommunicated Elizabeth I
  • 1571

    The Treasons Act

    made it treason for anyone to say that Elizabeth was not the true Queen of England and Wales
  • The 1581 Act
    1581

    The 1581 Act

    • provided death penalty for any catholic prsn
    • prohibited to participate to a catholic mass
    • 163 catholics were killed in 26y (1577-1603)
  • The Babington plot

    The Babington plot

    A plot made by young catholics to kill Elizabeth and replace her with Mary Queen of Scots
  • Execution of Mary Queen of Scots

    Execution of Mary Queen of Scots

    Mary Queen of Scots was executed after many years of imprisonment (19y) because of the Babington plot
  • The defeat of the Spanish Armada

    The defeat of the Spanish Armada

    King of Spain (involved in several plots against E.) attempted to invade England but failed, England was victorious
  • Period: to

    James I's reign

    • son of Mary Queen of Scots
    • Both King of England (James I) and King of Scotland (James VI)
  • The Gunpowder plot

    The Gunpowder plot

    a plot devised by a small group of Catholics to blow up Parliament and kill James I
  • Dissmission of Parliarment

    Dissmission of Parliarment

    - James I attempted to introduce the "Great Contract" : he would receive a fixed sum by parliarment
    MPs refused and Parliarment was dissmised
  • Period: to

    The Thirty Years' war

  • Period: to

    Charles I's reign

    • favoured arminians
    • was EXECUTED
  • Petition of Rights

    Petition made by MPs, basically to get Charles I to recognise that there were limits to his powers
  • The Three Resolutions

    The Three Resolutions

    Mps passed a law that declared that was considered enemy of the kingdom :
    - whoever tried to bring in “Popery or Arminianism” / to alter the protestant forms of the Church of England
    - whoever advised the King to collect custom duties without Parliament’s consent
  • Period: to

    The Personal Rule

    • 11 y when the King ruled without a parliament
    • called “The Eleven Years Tyranny”
  • Period: to

    The Scottish Crisis

    rebelion of the Scottish against Charles I because he attempted to draw the Church of Scotland (Calvinist) into line with the Church of England (Anglican)
  • The Militia Act

    The Militia Act

    Act that held that army should be placed under the control of a general appointed by Parliament
  • The Grand Remonstrance of 1641

    an important document voted by Parliament that summerized all the wrong doing of Charles I
    - concluded on “revolutionary” demands:
    • right of the House of commons to choose the King’s ministers
    • right for Parliament to control any army sent to Ireland
    • right for Parliament to reform the Church
  • The Irish Rebellion

    The Irish Rebellion

    Irish Catholic rebels rose up against English/Scottish Protestant settlers send by James I (plantation policy)
  • Arrestation of 5 MPs by Charles I in the House Of Commons

    Charles I marched into the House of Commons with troops and attempted to arrest 5 MPs
    He believed that 5 MPs were plotting against the queen
  • Charles I declared war on Parliarment

    Charles I declared war on Parliarment

    22 August 1642, Charles formally declared war on Parliament.
  • Period: to

    First Civil War

    Parliarlent was victorious
  • Battle of Naseby

    Battle of Naseby

    the Royalist forces were weakened
  • Charles I and the Royalists surrendered

    Charles I and the Royalists surrendered

    the king was then put in army custody
  • Charles I escaped from army custody

    Charles I escaped from army custody

    • he allied with the Scots
    • promised them to introduce Presbyterianism/Calvinism into England in return for the invasion of the Scottish army in England to restore him to power
  • Period: to

    The Second Civil war

  • England was declared a Commonwealth (Republic)

    Monarchy and House of Lords were abolished
  • Massacre of the Irish Royalist troops and civilians in Drogheda

    Massacre of the Irish Royalist troops and civilians in Drogheda

    • Royalist revolts (in support of monarchy) took place in Ireland and Scotland - were brutally repressed by Cromwell (Wexford massacre [every man, woman children killed])
  • Period: to

    Interregnum

    period between 2 reigns/kings
  • Period: to

    The Commonwealth

    England was governed by its people without a King (=republic)
  • Execution of Charles I

    Execution of Charles I

    after he was put on trial for high treason, Charles I was executed = Regicide
  • Cromwell defeated the Scots Army

    Cromwell defeated the Scots Army

  • Blasphemy Act 1650

    Blasphemy Act 1650

    blasphemy = attack on God
  • Cromwell crushed the uprising of the Scots Royalist force led by Charles II

    Cromwell crushed the uprising of the Scots Royalist force led by Charles II

  • The Instrument of Government

    The Instrument of Government

    →England’s first and only written constitution
  • Cromwell dissolved the Parliament

    Cromwell dissolved the Parliament

    Because of problems with Parliament:​
    - Slow progress with electoral reform​
    - Tensions between Army and Parliament​
  • Period: to

    The “Military Protectorate”

    England was ruled by Cromwell
  • Period: to

    The Cromwellian Protectorate

  • Charles II issued the Declaration of Breda

    Charles II issued the Declaration of Breda

    In return for the restoration of monarchy, it promised:
    •A general amnesty (pardon)
    •To continue religious toleration
    •To share power with Parliament
  • Period: to

    Charles II's reign

  • The restauration

    The king (Charles II) was restaured
  • The Act of uniformity 1662

    The Act of uniformity 1662

    All ministers had to swear to conform to the Book of Common Prayer
  • 1665 Outbreak of Plague

    1665 Outbreak of Plague

    • the last in a long series of plague epidemics that first began in London in June 1499
    • killed between 75,000 and 100,000 ppl
  • 1666 Great Fire of London​  ​

    1666 Great Fire of London​ ​

    • great fire that swept through central London from Sunday 2 September to Thursday 6 September 1666
    • 6 ppl died
  • The Popish Plot

    The Popish Plot

    • Rumour of a plot organised by French ppl to murder Charles II and replace him by his Catholic brother James II
  • Period: to

    Exclusion crisis

    • Parliament attempted to debar James II from the succession to the English throne - Parliament was dissolved
  • Period: to

    James II's reign

    • under his reign, ppl feared catholic absolutism
  • Parliament invited the William of Orange to invade England and seize the crown

    Parliament invited the William of Orange to invade England and seize the crown

    • was James II's son in law -landed with an army of 15 000 men and met no resistance​
  • Toleration Act 1689

    • established religious pluralism and freedom of worship for all Protestants​
  • The Bill of Rights

    The Bill of Rights

    A key political text presented to William III and Mary (his wife) that :
    - limited the monarch’s power (for the first time)
    - Set out the rights of Parliament​
    - Set out basic civil rights​
    - Listed James' misdeeds
  • The  Act of Settlement 1701

    The Act of Settlement 1701

    Ensured a Protestant succession, because William and Mary had no heir
    - ignored dozens of Catholic heirs​
  • Act of Union between England and Scotland​

    - Creation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain: England,Wales and Scotland
  • Act of union (1801)

    Act of union (1801)

    legislative agreement uniting GB (England and Scotland) and Ireland under the name of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

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