1558 |
(Nov) The Count of Feria’s embassy to Queen Mary’s court; Feria meets Princess Elizabeth |
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(17 Nov) Accession of Elizabeth as Queen of England and Ireland |
1559 |
(Jan–May) Parliament passes Act of Supremacy, making Elizabeth supreme governor of the Church of England, and Act of Uniformity, putting into law a Protestant prayer book |
1568 |
(May) Mary Queen of Scots seeks asylum in England |
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(Oct–Dec) Tribunal at York and Westminster examines the Casket Letters |
1569 |
(Dec) The Northern Rising of the earls of Northumberland and Westmorland |
1570 |
(Feb) Pope Pius V excommunicates Queen Elizabeth |
1571 |
(Apr–Aug) The Ridolfi Plot |
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Parliament’s Treasons Act |
1572 |
(June) Duke of Norfolk executed for treason |
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(Aug) Saint Bartholomew’s Day massacre in Paris |
1579 |
(Feb) Anthony Munday arrives in Rome |
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(July) Charles Sledd arrives in Rome |
1580 |
(May) Sledd arrives in London |
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(June) Edmund Campion and Robert Persons enter England |
1581 |
(July) Campion captured |
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(Nov) Campion tried |
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(Dec) Campion executed |
1583 |
(June) Duke of Guise plans the invasion of England |
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(Sept) Charles Paget, alias Mope, arrives secretly in England |
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(Oct) John Somerville sets out to kill Elizabeth |
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(Nov) Francis Throckmorton arrested; Lord Paget leaves England secretly |
1584 |
A True, Sincere, and Modest Defence of English Catholicques, by William Allen, printed in Rouen |
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(July) Francis Throckmorton executed for treason; William of Nassau, Prince of Orange assassinated |
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(Oct) Privy Council subscribes to the Instrument of Association |
1585 |
(Feb) William Parry tried for treason |
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(Mar) Parry executed; Act for the Queen’s Surety |
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(Dec) Gilbert Gifford leaves Paris for England |
1586 |
(June–Aug) Babington Plot |
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(July) Mary Queen of Scots composes the ‘bloody letter’ |
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(Aug) Gilbert Gifford leaves England secretly for Paris |
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(Sept) Anthony Babington and his group tried and executed |
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(Oct) Commission under Act for the Queen’s Surety (1585) tries Mary Queen of Scots |
1587 |
(Feb) Queen Elizabeth signs Mary Queen of Scots’s death warrant; Mary executed |
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(July) King Philip of Spain and Pope Sixtus V agree on the Enterprise of England |
1588 |
(July) Philip launches his Great Armada against England |
1590 |
(Apr) Sir Francis Walsingham dies |
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(May) Lord Burghley conducts an audit of Walsingham’s espionage network |
1591 |
(May) John Snowden and John Fixer recruited to spy on William Allen; Thomas Phelippes courted by the Earl of Essex and Francis Bacon |
1592 |
(May) William Sterrell’s mission begins |
1594 |
(Jan–Feb) The Lopez Plot; Patrick O’Collun’s conspiracy discovered |
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(June) Roderigo Lopez hanged |
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(Aug) Edmund Yorke’s plot discovered |
1596 |
(early) Thomas Phelippes goes to prison |
1600 |
(Apr) Phelippes makes an offer of service to Sir Robert Cecil |
1601 |
(summer) Cecil begins a secret correspondence with James VI of Scotland concerning the English succession |
1603 |
(24 Mar) Queen Elizabeth dies at Richmond Palace; James VI of Scotland succeeds her as King of England and Ireland |