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Queen Elizabeth I was born on September 7, 1533 unto King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn and they were very disapointed that she was a girl.
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Elizabeth was declared illegitimate as a queen for political machinations.
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May 2nd 1536 Anne Boleyn arrested and taken to the Tower of London to be executed. King Henry prosecuted her on the likely false charges of adultry.
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Her half-brother Edward was born in 1537 by Henry VIII's third wife, Jane Seymour.
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On January 28, 1547, Elizabeth's father, King Henry VIII died. He had many diseases but no one really knows wether he died of old age or not. He was a great influence to Elizabeth's life. She was then taken care of by her step-mother: Catherine Parr.
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Only a few months after King Henry died, Catherine Parr married Seymour.
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Thomas Seymour was found guilty of planning to marry Elizabeth in order to gain power and was executed.
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Edward died in 1553 at the age of 16
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Thomas Wyatt organized a rebellion against Mary in 1554 with the hopes of making Protestant-raised Elizabeth queen.
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Princess Elizabeth was imprisoned in the Tower for eight weeks under the reign of Queen Mary I. The Wyatt Rebellion was dicovered and as a result Mary jailed Elizabeth.
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Queen Elizabeth was moved to Woodstock just two months after being imprisoned in The Tower of London. She was released in April, 1555
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King Eric XIV of Sweden proposed ot Elizabeth but she said no. He was greatly in love with her and set her love letters in latin when his people began to talk bad about him. Then he went insane and started executing people for the crime of "annoying the king" and eventually he was poisoned in his soup.
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Queen Elizabeth almost dies of Smallpox
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Mary was imprisoned at Fotheringhay Castle.
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Francis, Duke of Anjou, visits Queen Elizabeth at Greenwich hoping to marry her but Elizabeth declines the offer.
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Queen Mary of Scots was executed.
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Philip of Spain II proposed to Elizabeth in an attempt to remain King of England after Queen Mary I died.
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Queen Elizabeth sends to aid King Henry IV of France lead by Sir John Norris with 3000 men
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Queen Elizabeth I grants charter to East India Company. She was hoping to break the Dutch monopoly of the spice trade in what is now Indonesia.
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She died of blood poisoning.
