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Date |
Event(s) |
| 1 | 1556 | - 21 Mar 1556: Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer burned at the stake in Oxford
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| 2 | 1558 | - 1558: Scottish parish registers start
- 1558: System of Counties adopted
- 7 Jan 1558: French take Calais, last English possession in France
- 24 Apr 1558: Marriage of Mary, Queen of Scots to Franηois the Dauphin of France in Paris
- 17 Nov 1558: Queen Mary Tudor of England dies and is succeeded by her half-sister
Elizabeth Protestantism restored in England
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| 3 | 1559 | - 1559: John Knox returns from Continent strengthens case for Presbyterianism in Scotland
- 1559: Tobacco introduced to Europe
- 15 Jan 1559: Elizabeth crowned in Westminster Abbey by Owen Oglethorpe, the Bishop of
Carlisle
- 29 Apr 1559: Acts of Supremacy passed in Parliament, ending papal jurisdiction over England
& Wales; established Church of England
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| 4 | 1560 | - 1560: Establishment of Protestantism in Scotland commissary courts thrown into confusion
some records lost
- 27 Feb 1560: Treaty of Berwick between Duc du Chatelherault (as governor of Scotland) and
the English, agreeing to act jointly to expel the French from Scotland
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| 5 | 1561 | - 1561: Spire of St Paul's, highest in England, destroyed by fire
- 1561: The first coins produced by machinery (known as a 'mill') rather than by hand, but it
was a slow process and did not replace hand struck coinage until new machinery was
introduced in 1663
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| 6 | 1562 | - 1562: Earliest English slave-trading expedition, under John Hawkins between Guinea and
the West Indies
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| 7 | 1563 | - 28 Jul 1563: The English surrender Le Havre to the French after a siege
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| 8 | 1564 | - 26 Apr 1564: Shakespeare baptised he is said to have been born on Apr 23, St George's
Day; he certainly died on Apr 23, 1616
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| 9 | 1565 | - 29 Jul 1565: Marriage of Mary, Queen of Scots to Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, her first
cousin
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| 10 | 1566 | - 9 Mar 1566: Murder of David Riccio (or Rizzio) in Holyrood House
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| 11 | 1567 | - 10 Feb 1567: Murder of Darnley outside Holyrood House in an explosion
- 15 May 1567: Marriage of Mary Queen of Scots to James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell
- 24 Jul 1567: Mary Queen of Scots deposed and replaced by her 1 year old son James VI
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| 12 | 1568 | - 13 May 1568: Battle of Langside Mary's flight to England and her imprisonment by Queen
Elizabeth I
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| 13 | 1569 | - 1569: Elizabeth I approved Sunday sports
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| 14 | 1570 | - 25 Feb 1570: Pope Pius V issued the papal bull 'Regnans in Excelsis' to excommunicate
Elizabeth I and her followers in the Church of England
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| 15 | 1571 | - 1571: Beginning of penal legislation against Catholics in England
- 1571: Presbyterianism introduced into England by Thomas Cartwright
- 1571: Repeal of Act prohibiting lending of money on interest gradual change from
'subsistence economy' to 'cash economy' resulted
- 23 Jan 1571: Opening of the Royal Exchange in London, founded by Sir Thomas Gresham
this building destroyed in Great Fire of London 1666
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| 16 | 1577 | - 1577: James Burbage opens first theatre in London
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| 17 | 1579 | - 1579: Act of Uniformity in matters of religion enforced
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| 18 | 1580 | - 1580: Colonisation of Ireland
- 1580: Congregational movement founded by Robert Browne about this time
- 6 Apr 1580: Dover Straits earthquake, largest in the recorded history of England, mentioned
by Shakespeare dozens of ships sunk and a tsunami hit Calais
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| 19 | 1581 | - 1581: English Levant Company founded
- 16 Jan 1581: English Parliament outlaws Roman Catholicism
- 4 Apr 1581: Francis Drake knighted by Elizabeth I aboard the Golden Hind after
circumnavigating the world
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| 20 | 1583 | - 1583: Foundation of Cambridge University Press by Thomas Thomas
- 1583: University of Edinburgh founded
- Aug 1583: Sir Humphrey Gilbert attempts to establish English authority at St John's,
Newfoundland
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| 21 | 1584 | - 4 Jun 1584: Sir Walter Raleigh establishes first English colony in the New World, on
Roanoke Island, Virginia (now in North Carolina) the so-called 'Lost Colony'
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| 22 | 1585 | - 1585: Foundation of Oxford University Press
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| 23 | 1587 | - 1587: Introduction of potatoes to England
- 8 Feb 1587: Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, at Fotheringay Castle, near Peterborough
- 19 Apr 1587: Sir Francis Drake sinks the Spanish fleet in Cadiz harbour
- 11 Aug 1587: Raleigh's second expedition to New World lands in North Carolina first child
born in the New World of English parents was Virginia Dare (Aug 18)
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| 24 | 1588 | - 1588: Invention of shorthand by Dr Timothy Bright
- 19 Jul 1588: Spanish Armada sighted off the Lizard (had set sail from Lisbon in late May)
- 29 Jul 1588: Defeat of Spanish Armada off Gravelines
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| 25 | 1591 | - 1591: Trinity College, Dublin, founded
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| 26 | 1592 | - 1592: A Congregational (or Independent) Church formed in London
- 1592: Scotland: Presbyterian Church formally established all ministers equal no bishops
secular commissaries appointed by the Crown
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| 27 | 1593 | - 1593: British statute mile established by law
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| 28 | 1594 | - 1594: Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, leads Irish rebellion against English rule (-1603)
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