Summary AQA AS and A-Level History Revision Notes Elizabeth I Timeline

Year Government Finances Foreign Policy Other

1558 9 new council members Debt of Death of Mary I
£300,000

1559 Coronation Of Elizabeth Calais French Treaty of Cateau-
I January possession for 8 Cambresis with
Crowned on the 15th years France and Spain
Death of Henry II

1560 Treaty of Berwick:
with Lords of the
Congregation
Sends troops to
scotland
Treaty of Edinburgh,
France, Scotland and
England

1561 Francis II dies
Mary returns to
Scotland

1562 Council of Trent French conflict with
Protestants and
Catholics

1563

1564 Treaty of Troyes
signed between the
English and French

1565 Mary married Lord
Darnley

1566

1567 Darnley is murdered
Mary married
Bothwell
Mary forced to
abdicate throne

1568 Earl of Sussex Dutch war of
president of the council Independence
of the north

1569

, 1570

1571

1572 Treaty of Blois
between England
and France

1573

1574

1575

1576

1577

1578

1579

1580

1581

1582

1582

1583

1584

1585 Army to aid
Protestant Dutch
rebels fighting King
Philip II of Spain
Treaty of Nonsuch
between England
and the Neverlands

1586

1587

1588 Defeat of Spanish
Armada

1589

1590