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Queen Mary died. Over 280 Protestants were burned under her rule. Elizabeth I ascended to the throne. With her reign, came a new statement of doctrine by the Church of England.
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The change for the better lead to Protestants returning home from Geneva and Zurich where they had fled during the reign of Mary I.
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An act of supremacy defined Queen Elizabeth I as the supreme governor of the Church of England. Some 200 Catholics were strangled and disemboweled after she commenced her reign
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These wars raged between the Huguenots (Calvinists) and the Catholics, commencing with the Battle of Dreux. The Huguenot leader signed the Treaty of Hampton Court with Queen Elizabeth I that called for the English troops to occupy Dieppe and La Havre
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This ended the first war of religion in France. The Huguenots gained limited tolerance. The French regained La Havre from the English
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This drastically revised the 42 Articles of the Church of England. The 39 Articles combined Protestant doctrine with Catholic Church organisation to establish the Church of England.
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Also known as King James IV of Scotland
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A thousand Scottish nobles cornered Mary, Queen of Scots, who fled the castle by jumping out the window, disguised as a pageboy. The nobles cornered her and her husband, and demanded her husband's head and Mary's renunciation of her husband and his influence.
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She was forced to abdicate her thrown to her one year old son, James IV
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Upon her arrival in England, she is imprisoned by Elizabeth I
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Over a thousand people are killed
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This became a source of enteratinment and profit
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The slaughter of French Protestants at the hands of Catholics behan in Paris. Charles, under the sway of his mother, Catherine de Medici, believed the Huguenot Protestants were plotting a revolution
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He produced an atlas with 37 county maps and a large country map
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After five months it ends with the Peace of Bergerac. The Huguenots gain more concessions.
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The Curtain opened close to London's first playhouse, The Theatre, and was one of a number of early theatres built outside the city's walls. It was the main arena for Shakespeare's play between 1597 to 1599 until the Globe was completed in Southwark
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France's seventh war of religion broke out and ended with the Peace of Fleix
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Pope Gregory announced a correction, "The Gregorian Adjustment" and had 4 October followed by 15 October.
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This was the first English settlement in the New World. His colony subsequently disappeared.
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He made a full confession of the Throckmorton Plot to overthrow Queen Elizabeth I and retore papal authority.
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He went on to settle the Virginia colony of Roanoke Island (North Carolina), naming it after the Virgin Queen
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She was accused of committing treason against Elizabeth I. Mary was beheaded in February 1587
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It was demolished after 1606 when the Globe Theatre surpassed it in popularity.
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It tells the fictional story of Titus, a general in the Roman Army, who is engaged in a cycle of revenge with Tamora, Queen of the Goths
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He established the 25 member "Lord Chamberlain's Men" of which William Shakespeare was one
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He was buried at sea
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The Tudor establishment, deeply concerned by the possibility of social upheaval brought on by an agricultural crisis and increasing urban migration, introduced this Act to promot philanthropy amongst the aristocracy and burgeoning merchant classes
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They and partners (that included William Shakespeare) used the timbers to build the Globe theatre.
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It was first published in the folio of 1623 and included a monologue that begins with "all the world's a stage" and catalogues seven stages of a man's life (the seven ages of man)
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The 20 sided timber building was constructed on the South Bank of the Thams. The new structure held 3,000 spectators in three galleries.
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To carry on the trade in the East Indies in competition with the Dutch who controlled nutmeg from the Banda Islands
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This ended the 19 year long Anglo-Spainish war
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Known as the Union Jack, which combined the flags of England and Scotland
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The original text of Shakespeare's 154 sonnets was also published
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The commission was probably made to celebrate the marriage of one of King James' daughters
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