| Event | Year |
| First Spanish Armada | |
| Treaty of Nonsuch | |
| Death of Henry VIII | |
| Papal Excommunication of Elizabeth | |
| Act of Uniformity | |
| Act of Supremacy | |
| Elizabeths death | |
| Throckmorton Plot | |
| Wyatts rebellion | |
| Northern Rebellion | |
| Ketts Rebellion | |
| | Event | Year |
| Execution of MQS | |
| Babington Plot | |
| Gold Bullion Affair | |
| St Bartholemews massacre | |
| Protectorate of Northumberland begins | |
| Treaty of Berwick | |
| First Book of Common Prayer Issued | |
| Elizabeth Pressed to marry by parliament | |
| First priests from English College at Douai arrive in England | |
| Start of mary's war with France | |
| Loss of Calais | |
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