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Date |
Event(s) |
| 1 | 1542 | - 14 Dec 1542—14 Dec 1542: Death of King James V of Scots; his baby daughter Mary ?Queen of Scots'
succeeds him just 6 days old
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| 2 | 1543 | - 9 Sep 1543—9 Sep 1543: Mary Stuart, at nine months old, is officially crowned Queen of Scots' in
Stirling (spelling of the royal house changes from Stewart to Stuart)
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| 3 | 1545 | - 20 Jul 1545—20 Jul 1545: Mary Rose, flagship of Henry VIII, sinks in the Solent - raised in 1982
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| 4 | 1547 | - 1547—1547: English replaced Latin in church services in England and Wales
- 28 Jan 1547—28 Jan 1547: Death of Henry VIII (succeeded by Edward VI, aged 9, to 1553)
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| 5 | 1549 | - 1549—1549: Wedding ring finger changed from right to left hand
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| 6 | 1552 | - Mar 1552—Mar 1552: An 'Act of Uniformity' imposes the Protestant prayerbook of 1552 in England
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| 7 | 1553 | - 19 Jul 1553—19 Jul 1553: Mary Tudor ('Bloody Mary') comes to the throne
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| 8 | 1556 | - 21 Mar 1556—21 Mar 1556: Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer burned at the stake in Oxford
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| 9 | 1558 | - 1558—1558: Scottish parish registers start
- 17 Nov 1558—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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| 10 | 1559 | - 1559—1559: Tobacco introduced to Europe
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| 11 | 1562 | - 1562—1562: Earliest English slave-trading expedition, under John Hawkins - between Guinea and
the West Indies
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| 12 | 1564 | - 26 Apr 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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| 13 | 1570 | - 25 Feb 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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| 14 | 1580 | - 1580—1580: Colonisation of Ireland
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| 15 | 1584 | - 4 Jun 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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| 16 | 1587 | - 1587—1587: Introduction of potatoes to England
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| 17 | 1588 | - 1588—1588: Invention of shorthand by Dr Timothy Bright
- 29 Jul 1588—29 Jul 1588: Defeat of Spanish Armada off Gravelines
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| 18 | 1600 | - 31 Dec 1600—31 Dec 1600: British East India Company founded
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| 19 | 1601 | - 1601—1601: First use of fruit juice as a preventative for scurvy by James Lancaster
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| 20 | 1602 | - 8 Nov 1602—8 Nov 1602: Bodleian Library at Oxford University opened to the public
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| 21 | 1603 | - 24 Mar 1603—24 Mar 1603: Death of Elizabeth I: union of Scottish and English crowns - under King James
VI of Scots and I of England (d. 1625)
- 25 Jul 1603—25 Jul 1603: Coronation - James VI of Scotland is crowned first king of Great Britain
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| 22 | 1604 | - 1 Nov 1604—1 Nov 1604: Shakespeare: Othello' first presented
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| 23 | 1605 | - 5 Nov 1605—5 Nov 1605: Gunpowder plot at Westminster (Guy Fawkes, etc)
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| 24 | 1608 | - 1608—1608: First use of telescope by Galileo - he observed the moons of Jupiter two years later in
Jan 1610
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| 25 | 1611 | - 1611—1611: Authorised (King James) Version of Bible in Britain
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| 26 | 1616 | - 23 Apr 1616—23 Apr 1616: Tuesday Apr 23 (Julian calendar): Death of Shakespeare
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| 27 | 1620 | - 21 Dec 1620—21 Dec 1620: (Dec 16 old style): The Mayflower reaches America - founds Plymouth, New
England (had initially set sail from Southampton on Aug 5)
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| 28 | 1622 | - 1622—1622: First English newspaper appeared - Weekly News'
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| 29 | 1635 | - 1635—1635: Flintlock small arms invented around this time (replaces matchlock)
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| 30 | 1640 | - 3 Nov 1640—3 Nov 1640: Charles I forced to recall Parliament (the 'Long Parliament') due to Scottish
invasion
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| 31 | 1642 | - 22 Aug 1642—22 Aug 1642: Charles I raises his standard at Nottingham - First Civil War in England (to
1649)
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| 32 | 1644 | - 2 Jul 1644—2 Jul 1644: Battle of Marston Moor, near York - Parliamentarian forces beat the Royalists
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| 33 | 1645 | - 14 Jun 1645—14 Jun 1645: Battle of Naseby: Parliament's New Model Army crushes the Royalist forces
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| 34 | 1648 | - 1648—1648: Society of Friends (Quakers) founded by George Fox
- 1648—1648: First practical thermometers made
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| 35 | 1649 | - 30 Jan 1649—30 Jan 1649: King Charles I executed
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| 36 | 1650 | - 1650—1650: Coffee brought to England about this time
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