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
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
