Tudors 1547-1603

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  • Sep 9, 1543

    Mary Crowned Queen of Scots

  • Jan 1, 1544

    Henry VIII begins a series of raids against Scotland known as the "Rough Wooing",

    led by the Earl of Hertford. Abbeys of Holyrood Palace, Jedburgh, Kelso and Dryburgh are looted and burnt. Crops and ships are stolen.
  • Jan 28, 1547

    Death of Henry VIII

  • Jan 28, 1547

    Reign of Edward VI begins

  • Feb 4, 1547

    Edward Seymour, Earl of Hartford becomes Duke of Somerset and Protecter of England

    Edward Seymour is Edward VI uncle
  • Sep 10, 1547

    English army defeat the Scots

    This is the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh which is part of the attenpt to force a marriage between Edward VI and Wueen Mary of Scots
  • Jan 1, 1549

    Edward VI introduces a uniform protestant service in England based on his book of common prayer

  • Jun 20, 1549

    Norfolk Rebellion begins, the largest popular uprising of Tudor times

    A dispute over hedges in the village of Attleborough near Norwich exploded into possibly the largest Tudor popular rebellion. Having captured Norwich, the rebels were only defeated in a pitched battle by an army sent from London. The rebellion arose over a complex number of issues, some local, some resulting from Edward Seymour, the Duke of Somerset's policies. Unlike the other popular risings of this period, it did not include a call for the return of the old church.
  • Aug 8, 1549

    The French declare war on England

  • Jan 1, 1550

    The Duke of Somerset is deposed as Protector of England, and is replaced by John Dudley, Earl of Warwick, who creates himself Duke of Northumberland.

  • Jan 22, 1552

    Duke of Somerset executed

  • Jan 1, 1553

    The Duke of Northumberland persades Edward to nominate his daughter in law Lady Jane Grey as his heir

  • Jul 6, 1553

    Edward VI dies of Tuberculosis

  • Jul 6, 1553

    Reign of Mary I begins

  • Jan 26, 1554

    Protestant rebellion led by Sir Thomas Wyatt he Younger

  • Feb 12, 1554

    Lady Jane Grey and her Husband executed

  • Mar 18, 1554

    Princess Elizabeth imprisoned in the tower of London for 8 weeks

  • Jul 25, 1554

    Philip of Spain marrys Queen Mary I

  • Nov 1, 1554

    Queen Mary I returns England to Roman Catholocism

  • Dec 1, 1554

    300 Protestants are burnt at the stake

  • Oct 16, 1555

    Protestant churchmen Latimer and Ridley are burned at the stake

  • Jan 16, 1556

    Philip becomes king of Spain

  • Mar 21, 1556

    Thomas Crammer, form Archbishop of Canterbury is burned at the stake

  • Jan 1, 1558

    Loss of Calais, the last English possesion in France

  • Nov 17, 1558

    Mary I dies

  • Nov 19, 1558

    Elizibeth I becomes Queen

  • Jan 1, 1559

    Elizabeth I establishes the Protestant Church in England

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabethan_settlement
  • Jan 15, 1559

    Elizabeth I corination

  • Jun 24, 1559

    Elizabeth I prayer book first used

  • Jul 5, 1560

    Treaty of Edinburgh between England, France and Scotland

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Edinburgh
  • Aug 19, 1561

    Return of Mary Queen of Scots to Scotland

  • Sep 20, 1561

    Treaty signed at Hampton Court, Elizabeth I pledges support of the french French Huguenots

  • Jul 29, 1565

    Mary Stuart marries her cousin Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley

  • Feb 10, 1567

    Mary Stuart's husband, Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, is killed

  • Jul 24, 1567

    Mary Stuart abdicates

    Following the marriage of Mary Stuart (Mary I of Scotland) to James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell, the Scottish nobility rebelled. She was imprisoned in Loch Leven Castle and forced to abdicate in favour of her infant son James (crowned James VI). She escaped in May 1568 and raised an army, which was decisively beaten at the Battle of Langside, south of the river Clyde, by forces under the command of her half-brother, James Stewart, Earl of Moray.
  • May 16, 1568

    Mary Stuart arrives in England and demands help against the Scottish rebels

    After the defeat of Mary Stuart's army at the Battle of Langside, near Glasgow, on 13 May, she fled to England and demanded Elizabeth I's support in reclaiming her throne. Elizabeth refused until Mary had established her innocence in the murder of her husband, Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley. The inquiry found that guilt could not be proven, but Mary was nonetheless detained in England where she would become the focus of many plots to overthrow Elizabeth.
  • Nov 14, 1569

    Northern earls rebel in support of Mary Stuart

    The rebellion of northern Catholics was led by Thomas Percy, Earl of Northumberland, and Charles Neville, Earl of Westmorland. Its apparent objective was to replace Elizabeth I as queen of England with Mary Stuart. The rising was crushed, Westmorland fled into exile and Northumberland was captured and executed.
  • Aug 17, 1579

    François, Duke of Anjou proposes marriage to Elizabeth I

    Elizabeth I rejected the proposal
  • Dec 31, 1580

    Earl of Morton is arrested in connection with Lord Darnley's murder

  • First Treaty of Nonsuch sparks conflict with Spain

    The treaty of assistance to the United Provinces (a collection of territories in the Low Countries) was signed at the Palace of Nonsuch in Surrey. It provided English military aid for the relief of Antwerp, which was besieged by Spanish forces. Antwerp fell on 17 August. Nonetheless, the treaty was perceived as an act of war by Philip II of Spain and would lead, by a series of events, to sending of the Armada to invade England.

  • Execution of Mary Queen of Scots

  • The Spanish Armada

  • Irish forces defeat the English at the Battle of Yellow Ford

    The Nine Years War broke out in 1594 when the territorial ambitions of Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, clashed with those of England. At the Battle of Yellow Ford in 1598, English forces suffered a heavy defeat, with 2,000 killed, including their commander, Sir Henry Bagenal. In late 1601, the English routed the rebels at the Battle of Kinsale, but it would still take more than a year to finally subdue the rebellion.

  • Poor Law passed

  • Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex attempts to seize London

    Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex was a great favourite of Elizabeth I. Throughout the 1590s he traded on his popularity, persuading the queen to appoint him lord lieutenant of Ireland in 1599. His military campaign during the Irish Nine Years' War ended in a humiliating and unauthorised truce with the rebel Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone. Furious, Elizabeth stripped him of his titles. He raised a rebellion, but was captured and executed for treason on 25 February.

  • Elizabeth I dies