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The Act of Supremacy is when the King Henry VIII was made "Supreme Head of the Church of England". -
Became monarch in 1509
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Henry decided that the monasteries were bastions of "popery" and disbanded them.
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The dissolution process was interrupted by rebellions in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire.
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It was held in the Italian city of Trent --> the symbol of Counter Reformation.
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Henry VIII hands over his power to his son Edward VI -
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Book of Common Prayer published in 1549. -
He was 15 when he died. -
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For Church organisation.
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A Religious belief.
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Stated the doctrine of the Church.
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A Rebellion against religious reforms.
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Pope Pius issued the papal bull "Regnans in Excelsis". -
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The Act to retain the Queen's Majesty's Subjects in their due Obedience.
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Young Catholics had sworn to kill Elizabeth and put Mary Stuart on the throne.
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She was convicted for complicity and sentenced to death.
She was executed in 1587 in Fotheringham Castle. -
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The Queen made this speech in Tilbury, Essex, in order to rally the troops who were preparing to repel the invasion of the Spanish Armada. -
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He was a British Monarch and one of the stuarts.
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It was a conspiracy devised by a small group of Catholics to blow up the Parliament and kill James I.
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The Great Contract was the centrepiece of the financial reforms.
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A new translation of the Bible completed in 1611. -
The longest and most destructive conflicts in European history.
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He was a British Monarch and one of the stuarts as well.
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MP's complaints : they requested the King to recognise the illegality of extra-parliamentary taxation, billeting, martial law, imprisonment without trial.
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The MPs passed the Three Resolutions as an act of open defiance.
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The Eleven Years Tyranny : 11 years when the King ruled without calling a parliament.
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Book of Common Prayer. -
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The Long Parliament was determined to remedy 11 years of grievances and wanted to ensure regular parliaments.
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In October 1641, an armed revolt broke out in Ireland. Irish Catholics rebels rose up against Protestant settlers.
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Parliament passed the Militia Act : The army should be placed under the control of a general appointed by Parliament.
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An important document voted by Parliament after heated debates. It summarized all the wrong doing of Charles I and concluded on "revolutionary" demands. -
Charles I marched into the House of Commons with troops and attempted to arrest the 5 MPs who he believed were plotting plotting against the Queen. -
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Charles formally declared war on Parliament.
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The First Civil war would cost the lives of 190 000 Englishmen.
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A new army created in 1644 by the Parliamentarians. -
The New Model Army seized the King in June 1647.
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The Army issued the Agreement of the People in Nov 1647.
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The King escaped from army custody and allied himself with the Scots in November 1647.
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In December 1648, Colonel Pride Army entered the House of Commons, stopped the vote and arrested the 45 conservative leader MPs.
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In March 1649, Monarchy and House of Commons abolished, England was declared a Commonwealth (a republic).
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The Interregnum between 2 reigns and 2 kings.
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King Charles I was executed. -
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England's first and only written constitution. -
Cromwell declared Britain as ‘The Commonwealth’ in 1649 and went on to become its Lord Protector.
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The end of the Commonwealth and start of the Protectorate.
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Picture of the wax death mask of Oliver Cromwell above. -
Oliver Cromwell's son Richard became Lord Protector but resigned after 6 months
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Charles II issued the Declaration of Breda.
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A series of laws passed during the first 5 years of Restoration.
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The King restored on 29th May 1660. -
All ministers had to swear to conform to the Book of Common Prayer.
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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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Parliament attempted to debar James II from the succession to the English throne.
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James’ second wife gave birth to a son.
A Catholic Heir which was a threat to Protestantism and to Parliament’s powers. -
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James II fled to France and William of Orange became King William III. -
Toleration Act of 1689 established religious pluralism, and freedom of worship for all Protestants.
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Mary II : 1689-1694
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The Bill of Rights limited the monarch’s power for the first time. -
The Act of Settlement put an end to the 16th and 17th quarrel between King and Parliament. -
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Anne was a monarch till 1714
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Creation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain: England (and Wales) and Scotland.