January 15 1559 Coronation of Elizabeth
 May 8 1559 Act of Supremacy; restores anti-papal laws of henry VIII and reasserts Crown's power over the Church
May 10 1559 Act of Uniformity: imposes revised Book of Common Prayer in churches.
1562 october; Queen Elizabeth gravely ill from smallpox at Hampton Cour
1562 October John Hawkins begins African slave trade from Sierra Leone to Hispaniola
1563 March Poor Relief Act; comples rich paishes to help poorer ones
1563 June-October: severe outbreak of plague, over 20,000 die in London
1564 April 11 Peace Treaty of Troyes with france, Queen elizabeth receives 222,000 crowns to renounce claims to Calais
1564-5 Hawkins's second voage to South America, he introduces tobacco to England
1568 May 16, Mary, Queen of Scots arrives in England after being forced to abdicate the throne of Scotland.
1568 October Confere3nce of York: anglo-Scottish inquiry into Queen Mary's alleged complicity in the murder of her husband Darnley, Elizabeth transfers inquiry to Westminster in late November
1569 January 10: Queen Elizabeth declares murder complicty of mary, Queen of Scots not proven
1570 May Papal bull of 25 Feb, Regnans in Excelsis, exommunicating Queen Elizabeth, made public in London
1570 Potatoes introduced into Spain from America
1572 treaty of Blois, Anglo-French cooperation against Spain, projected royal marriage with Francois, Duke of Alencon.
1575 Mar: Queen elizabeth agrees to top aiding dutch rebels in return for Spanish opening of Antwerp to english traders
1575 November 14 Queen Elizabeth declines sovereignty of the Netherlands
1579 Treaty of alliance with Dutch, under William of Orange
1580 September 26 Drake completes circumnavigation of the globe, his ship is renamed The Golden Hind
1581 Act against Reconciliation to Rome; heavy fines for hearing mass and for recusancy (non-attendance at the parish church)
1581 october Duc d'alencon comes to Whitehall Palace to sign marriage treaty with elizabeth, 20 years his senior in age. Renewed Commons oppossition to Alencon marriage.
1585 July 7 Roanoke colony established in Virginia
1585 Sep 3, Treaty of Nonesuch, promises dutch an expeditionary force, sent under Earl of Leicester, 17 Dec
1587 February 8 Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots
1588 July -August Spanish Armada defeated by English fleet.
1594 Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, leads Catholic rising in Ulster
1598 Poor Relief Act, local poor rate, workhouses set up.
1501 Earl of Essex leads abortive revolt in London against Queen Elizabeth, he is executed for treason February 25
1603 March 24 Queen Elizabeth dies at Richmond Palace
