A Timeline of Britain


He also built up Britain’s navy until it was the


world’s best, complete with a new breed of warship that could carry guns below deck and fire broadsides. His favourite ship, the Mary Rose, sank tragically off Portsmouth in 1545, after 33 years of service. Her remains, along with more than 20,000 artefacts, were recovered from the silt of the Solent in 1982, and are now on display at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, offering a captivating insight into Tudor maritime life.


Henry died in 1547, and there followed a turbulent


period as Crown and country lurched between Protestant and Catholic loyalties. Under Edward VI, Jane Seymour’s sickly son, a more hard-line Protestantism gained the ascendancy. Stained-glass windows and crucifixes were torn from churches, altars gave way to communion tables, and rood screens to pulpits and lecterns. Perhaps most momentously, The Book of Common Prayer was introduced.


1580 Francis Drake becomes the first Englishman to circumnavigate the world


1587 Execution of Mary Stuart


Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots


1585 War with Spain


First world map and Sir Francis Drake


1592 Trinity College is incorporated in Dublin


www.britain-magazine.com 1588 Defeat of the Spanish Armada


1590 The first part of Spenser’s epic poem The Faerie Queene is published


1598 Irish forces defeat the English at the Battle of Yellow Ford during the Nine Years’ War. The O’Neill revolt is finally suppressed in 1603


1601 Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, is executed following a failed rebellion


1603


East India Company ship: Red Dragon


1600 The British East India Company is incorporated, to form trade links with southern and eastern


Asia. This would


become the major force in British imperial expansion in the 17th and 18th centuries


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1603 King James VI of Scotland succeeds Elizabeth to become King James I of England


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