Timeline

By Jibhel
  • Period: 1509 to 1547

    Henry VIII reign

    One of most famous british king. He was known for having plenty of wife and bringing protestantism to his country
  • 1517

    Marthin Luther writting the Ninety-Five These

  • 1526

    The Tyndale Bible

  • 1534

    Act of Supremacy

    It was introduced as a mean for the king Henry VIII to become the Supreme Head of the Church of England which led to a gradual schism of England from the Roman Catholic Church
  • Period: 1547 to 1553

    Edward VI reign

    Young son of Henry VIII who was protestant. His reign was short due to his death caused by a tuberculosis
  • Period: 1553 to 1558

    Mary I reign

    Called Bloody Mary because of all the death of protestant she ordered. She was hated by her people to the point that her death was welcomed.
  • Period: 1558 to

    Elizabeth I reign

    During her reign this period was considered as the golden age of the country.
  • The Act of uniformity
    1559

    The Act of uniformity

    This act was meant to control people beliefs: every parish had to use the Book of Common Prayer and people who did not attend an Anglican service were fined.
  • 1559

    The Act of supremacy

    This act was meant to add changes to the church organisation. First this abolished the authority of the Pope, then it restored the authority of the Queen over the Church and she became “Supreme Governor of the Church of England”.
  • 1567

    James I becomes king of Scotland

  • The northern rebellion
    1569

    The northern rebellion

    This rebellion was composed of 6000 insurgents and they were against religious reforms. It was an attempt to replace Queen Elizabeth by Mary, Queen of Scots.
  • The papal bull
    1570

    The papal bull

    This text written by the Pope inform that the queen Elizabeth was excommunicated. He also critises the queen and insult her of heretic. This lead to many plot against the queen to arise as it was not a crime anymore for Rome.
  • 1571

    The treason act

    The 1571 Treasons Act made it treason for anyone to say that Elizabeth was not the true Queen of England and Wales
  • 1581

    The 1581 Act

    This act brought a new set of rules to fight the catholics: It provided for the death penalty for any person converting, or already converted to Catholicism. It was now forbidden to participate or celebrate the Catholic Mass and anglican services were compulsory: £20 per month fine.
  • The Babington plot

    The Babington plot

    Thanks to Francis Walsingham, a spy of the queen, ability this plot was discovered by deciphering a coded letter. It was meant, like many, to kill the queen for Mary to be the next on the throne.
  • Mary Queen of Scots execution

    Mary Queen of Scots execution

    The event of Bobington led to the queen to make the choice of killing her cousin due to the threath she was.
  • The defeat of the spanish armada

    The defeat of the spanish armada

    This defeat greaty helped to strenghten the queen as legitimate and chosen by god. The spanish armada was reknown to be invicible but thanks to a storm that reduce the spanish fleet, and faster, more maneuverable ship she accomplished a feat that many thought impossible.

  • James becomes king of England

  • The gunpowder plot

  • The Great Contract

  • King James's Bible

  • Period: to

    The Thirty Years' War

  • Petition of rights

  • The Three Resolutions

  • Period: to

    Personal rule

  • Scottish National covenant

  • Treaty of Ripon

  • Militia Act

  • Period: to

    English civil war

  • Massacre

    irish royalist troop and civilians were killed

  • Blasphemy act

    The Quaker James Nayler who imitated Christ’s entry into Jerusalem was harshly punished

  • Cromwell dissolved the rump

  • Cromwell died in 1658

  • Declaration of Breda

  • The popish plot

    Rumour of a plot organised by the French to murder Charles II and replace him by his Catholic brother James II
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    The exclusion crisis

    Parliament attempted to debar James II from the succession to the English throne

  • The Bill of Rights

    Lists King James’ misdeeds, fixed limitations on the sovereign’s power, set out the rights of Parliament, Set out basic civil rights and it was a key political text.

  • the Act of Settlement

    Settled the order of succession and ensured a Protestant succession, ignoring dozens of Catholic. This made Hanoverian descendants of James I as the succesor. He had a Key role in the formation of the Kingdom of Great Britain

  • Act of Union between England and Scotland

    Creation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain: England (and Wales) and Scotland

  • Act of Union