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This act denied papal jurisdiction in England and ended appeals of court cases to Rome. -
Henry VIII becomes sole and supreme head of the Church. -
King Edward VI ascended the throne at the age of nine and died at the age of 15 due to tuberculosis.
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Queen Mary was the very first female ruler of England who ruled for five years and died due an illness. She was a devoted Roman Catholic, she attempted to restore Catholicism there, mainly through reasoned persuasion, but her regime's persecution of Protestant dissenters led to hundreds of executions which earned her the name "Bloody Mary".
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This is period when Queen Elizabeth the first ruled England from the age of 25 until her death at 69 years old. Many historians call this era the golden age in English history because during this period there were many changes that led England to a very powerful position.
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The act of supremacy: It abolished all foreign jurisdiction over the Church and recognized the Queen as its supreme governor. The act of uniformity: It outlawed Catholic liturgy and required all clergy to use a new Book of Common Prayer instead. -
It was a conspiracy to kill the protestant Queen Elizabeth so that her catholic cousin Mary, queen of Scots could replace her. The plot was led by Anthony Babington. -
Mary queen of Scots was convicted executed involvement in the "Babington plot" on 25th October 1586 but she was executed only after ten months. -
The natural body: It is a mortal body and subject to age and infirmities as any human's body would be. The political body: It is a metaphysical entity consisting of policy and government and is 'utterly void of Infancy and old Age, and other natural Defects and Imbecilities'. -
James becomes the King of England after the death of Queen Elizabeth the first. After James the first was crowned, he moved south immediately, and would have liked his two kingdoms to be completely united. However, Scotland retained its own parliament, established Church and legal and educational systems. -
The Gunpowder Plot was a failed attempt to assassinate King James I of England during the Opening of Parliament in November 1605. The plan was organized by Robert Catesby, a devout English Catholic who hoped to kill the Protestant King James and establish Catholic rule in England. -
In 1607, english men arrived in North America to start a settlement, which was the very first English settlement and the place where they settled was named Jamestown, it was named after their King, James the first. -
From 1609 to 1610, the colonists were hit by the starving time, it was a time when people died because of shortage of drinkable water, insufficient amount of crops and the conflict with the native tribe, only 60 out of 500 people survived it.
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The Thirty Years' War aimed to establish freedom of religion, which was at times at stake. The leading cause was that Emperor Ferdinand forced Catholicism throughout the region, which made Protestants fear losing their rights to worship. -
The Personal Rule (also known as the Eleven Years' Tyranny) was the period in England from 1629 to 1640 when King Charles I ruled as an autocratic absolute monarch without recourse to Parliament.
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The First English Civil War was fought primarily over the correct balance of power between Parliament and Charles I.
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Colonel Thomas Pride and his soldiers stood outside the entrance to St Stephen's Chapel and, as the Commons convened that morning, arrested 45 Members and excluded a further 186 whom the Army thought were unlikely to support its goal of punishing the King. -
Charles was convicted of treason and executed on 30 January 1649 outside the Banqueting House in Whitehall. -
After the civil war, the monarchy and the House of Lords are abolished. The House of Lords was abolished by an Act of Parliament, which declared that "The Commons of England [find] by too long experience that the House of Lords is useless and dangerous to the people of England." -
The Declaration of Breda was a set of promises made by Charles the Second in return for his restoration to the throne after spending years in exile. One of the promise was a general pardon for crimes committed during the English Civil War and the Interregnum for all those who recognized Charles as the lawful king. -
The declaration of Breda was successful and Monarchy was restored in England. Charles the second returns from his exile from France and becomes the King of England. -
It was a rumored plot organised by French to assassinate King Charles the Second in order to bring his Roman Catholic brother, duke of York to the throne. -
The revolution involved the overthrow of the Catholic King James II, who was replaced by his Protestant daughter Mary and her Dutch husband, William of Orange. It was called the "Glorious Revolution" because it didn't involved bloodshed.
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Bill of Rights is an ACT that firmly establishes the principles of frequent parliaments, free elections and freedom of speech within Parliament and today it is known as Parliamentary Privilege. -
It was an era of great social, political and cultural changes. It includes the start of the Industrial Revolution, the emergence of Romanticism in art and literature, and the expansion and dominance of the British Empire through exploration and war. It is called the Georgian Era because this era is named after the Hanoverian kings George I, George II, George III and George IV.
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It was a series of sweeping military conflicts that resulted from the Frenc revolution.
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The United Irishmen launched a full-fledged revolt against British rule but the revolution was short lived and left over 30,000 Irish people dead. -
It was a legislative agreement uniting Great Britain (England and Scotland) and Ireland under the name of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. -
This act was passed to give the right to vote to 5 percent of the population.