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England during Mary I and Elizabeth I's reign
Question | Answer |
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Lady Jane Grey | attempted to be put in place of Mary Tudor as Edward VI's successor, removed from throne and executed. |
Mary I | Catholic ruler who married Philip II of Spain, highly against Protestants. |
During Mary's reign, Parliament... | repealed the Protestant statutes of Edward and reverted to the Catholic religious practices of Henry VIII. |
Great Protestant leaders of the Edwardian Age | were executed for heresy under Mary I. |
Many Protestants were... | executed or fled the continent during Mary's reign. |
Elizabeth I | Mary's successor and half sister. Had much success in both domestic and foreign policies. Politique. |
Between 1559 and 1603 | Elizabeth and her adviser, Sir William Cecil, guided a religious settlement that prevented religious differences from tearing England apart. |
1559 | an Act of Supremacy was passed, repealing all the anti-Protestant legislation of Mary, and asserting Elizabeth's right as "supreme governor" over spiritual and temporal affairs. |
Act of Uniformity | every English parish mandated to have a revised version of the second Book of Common Prayer. |
Thirty-Nine Articles | (1563) made a moderate Protestantism the official religion of the Church of England. |
Mary, Queen of Scots | had a more legitimate claim to the English throne, plotted against Elizabeth, was executed. |
1567 | Spanish duke of Alba moves his army into the Netherlands, seemed to be a staging area for Spanish invasion of England. |
Pope Pius V | favored military conquest of Protestant England, excommunicated Elizabeth. |
1570's | John Hawkins and Sir Francis Drake begin preying of Spanish ships shipping to the Americas. |
1588 | Spain sends the Armada to England, later defeated by English and Netherlands' ships with the help of the "English wind." |
March 23, 1603 | Elizabeth I dies, leaving behind a strong nation ready to expand into a global empire. |