November - Mary I dies, Elizabeth is Queen

January  - coronation

Drafting of Religious Settlement

January - May Parliamentary session

June - Elizabethan Prayer Book first used

July - Treaty of Edinburgh

September - Dudley's wife found dead

Elizabeth almost dies of small pox

Sends aid to French Huguenots

January - April parliamentary session

39 articles

Plague outbreak

Trade embargo between England and the Netherlands

Peace of Troyes beween England and France

ELizabeth takes profit from John Hawkins' slave trade

March - murder of David Rizzio

June - Mary gives birth to her son James (VI)

September - parliamentary session begins

January - end of parliamentary session

February - Lord Darnley is murdered

Mary marries the Earl of Bothwell causing rebellion in Scotand

May - Mary is imprisioned

July - Mary abdicates leaving her son James VI

Philip sends army to the Netherlands to restore Spanish control

ELizabeth allows Dutch Sea Beggars to use English harbours

MQS imprisioned by Elizabeth at Fortheringay Castle

Spanish fleet attack John Hawkins

Cecil order bullion to be taken off Spanish ships sheltering in English ports

Spanish retaliate by placing embargo on on all English property in the Netherlands

Trade between England and Spain stops