Elizabeth I of England [1533-1603] -- Queen of England and Ireland (1558-1603)
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England (1558-1603), QueenGloriana
Good Queen Bess
Ireland (1558-1603), Queen
Virgin Queen, The
Wiki: Elizabeth I of England
Elizabeth acceded to the throne at 25, in November of 1558, at a low point in England's history, and became in her forty-five year reign one of England's best and most loved rulers. The date of her accession was celebrated as a national holiday for 200 years.
With her accession, the persecution of Protestants carried on by her Catholic predecessor and half-sister, Mary I -- a/k/a Bloody Mary -- ceased. There followed a period relatively free of strife during which the arts, especially literature, flourished in England. This was the era that produced Shakespeare and Bacon.
Elizabeth wisely eschewed marriage, thereby avoiding foreign and domestic entanglements that might have drawn her or the country into dispute. She was not above using the possibility of her marriage to political advantage, however.
Her reign was an eventful one, marked by numerous events of significant historical import. Well-loved, she was nevertheless plagued by a seemingly endless succession of plots against her life.
Elizabeth was the last of the Tudor monarchs of England.
She was succeeded upon her death by her cousin, James I,
who was also King of Scotland (as James VI),
thereby uniting the kingdoms of England and Scotland
to become "Great Britain". 
Chronology |
1533/09/07 | She is born |
1536/04/19 | Her mother, Anne Boleyn is executed on trumped-up charges by her father, King Henry VIII |
1536/07/01 | Elizabeth (and half-sister Mary) declared illegitimate by Parliament |
1554 | Lady Jane Grey, the 9-day queen, executed by Mary, who takes the throne as Mary I |
1554 | Elizabeth sent to The Tower for supposed complicity in Wyatt's rebellion at culmination of the Grey incident |
1555-1558 | Mary, a Catholic, persecutes English protestants, earning her the sobriquet "Bloody Mary" |
1558/11/17 | Elizabeth accedes to the throne on the death Mary, who was her half-sister |
1559/04/08 | Acts of Supremacy and Uniformity, implements Religious Settlement |
1559/07/10 | Mary, Queen of Scots, declares herself Queen of England |
1562/10 | Elizabeth seriously ill with smallpox |
1563 | Plague in London |
1567/07/24 | Mary, Queen of Scots, forced to abdicate. Son James is King of Scotland (future king of England, as well, as James I) |
1568 | Mary imprisoned |
1577-1580 | Sir Francis Drake circumnavigates the globe |
1582 | Plague in London |
1585 | First English colony in America at Roanoke Island, Virginia |
1586 | The Babington Plot; Mary, Queen of Scots, implicated, tried, sentenced, executed Feb. 1587 |
1588/08/08 | Defeat of the Spanish Armada |
1593 | Plague in London |
1601/11/20 | Elizabeth delivers her "Golden Speech" |
1603/03/24 | Death of Elizabeth I. James VI of Scotland also becomes James I of England. |
Bookmarks (off-site links) |
- General
- Works by
- Analyses, critiques and interpretations
- Quotations
- For sale
- Elizabeth I - Act of Supremacy, 1559 After the brief and bloody reign of her sister, Mary I, who executed numerous Protestants for the cause of Roman Catholicism, this document states Elizabeth's intention to reaffirm the English Church's independence from Rome.
- Modern History Sourcebook: Queen Elizabeth I of England: Selected Writing and Speeches
- The Works of Elizabeth I Including her letters and her poems.
- Elizabeth I Tudor at Old Poetry
- Works about
- Elizabeth I of England
- Biographical
There is no shortage of Elizabeth I biographical sites around the web; This is but a selection.
- Specific periods, events, aspects
- Queen Elizabeth Tudor Character biography. The Guilde of St. George is a troupe that recreates the English court at the time of Queen Elizabeth I at the Bristol Renaissance Faire in Bristol, WI. (archive)
- Chronologies, synopses
- History of the Monarchy > The Tudors > Elizabeth I The official Royal site
- Queen Elizabeth I Tudor of England (1533-1603)
- Royalty.nu - Tudor Royal History - Queen Elizabeth I
- Elizabeth Tudor - National Park Service - Fort Raleigh National Historic Site Heritage Education Program: At the Fort Raleigh National Historic Site (US)
- Biography of Elizabeth Tudor (ARCHIVE)
- Elizabeth I: British Monarchs Encyclopedia Britannica
- Specific periods, events, aspects
- Genealogy
- Memorials, tributes, shrines
- Suites
- Elizabeth I at the Tudor History site
- Star Fleet Record Huh? A starship? USS Elizabeth Tudor NCC-76505
- Suites
- Bibliographies and Link Farms
- Search engines
- Contents: The Life and Times of Queen Elizabeth I Heather Thomas's comprehensive suite
- Elizabeth I, England (Royals)
- Elizabeth I (1533-1603)
- Elizabeth I - Treasons Act, 1571 Forbidding criticism of Queen Elizabeth.
- Elizabeth I - Act Against Papists, 1593 Parliament's tough words against those who would attempt to depose Elizabeth for her Protestantism.
- Collections, archives - Papers
- Historical context, background
- Places (residences, etc)
- TudorHistory.org Excellent reference site
- The Marriage of Elizabeth Tudor Being an exhaustive inquiry into her alleged Marriage with the Earl of Leicester and the alleged Births of her Two Sons, Francis Bacon and the Earl of Essex: an historical research based on one of the themes in "Shakespeare's Sonnets" By ALFRED DODD
- Elizabeth I and Tudor England
- The State of Ireland Under Elizabeth Tudor (in The Last King booklet)
- Elizabethan Costuming Page Drea Leed
- Tudor England Bibliography
- Sixteenth-century Tudor Poems
- Renaissance, The Elizabethan World Links to several scholarly sites treating aspects of the Elizabethan era.
- Gallery
- elizabeth I tudor - Google Image Search
- IMDb character search Films in which Queen Elizabeth is portrayed
- Elizabeth I Gallery
- Elizabeth I, Gallery no. 2
- Elizabeth Gallery No. 3
