1553
21st June: Devise for the succession bastardizes both Mary and Elizabeth
6th July: Edward dies and Mary heads straight out of London to avoid arrest. She gets support from those who are unhappy about the changes in the succession
9th July: Mary sends a letter to the Privy Council outlining her claim to the throne and includes letters to the localities calling upon her supporters
10th July: Lady Jane Grey is declared Queen
14th July: Northumberland feels London for Cambridge and Mary moves to the Kenninghall Castle
19th July: Mary is proclaimed Queen after the "greatest demonstration of mass loyalty ever accorded to a Tudor"
24th July: Northumberland is arrested
3rd August: Mary enters London
7th August: Cranmer conducts Edward's funeral
30th September: Mary's coronation
6th July: Edward dies and Mary heads straight out of London to avoid arrest. She gets support from those who are unhappy about the changes in the succession
9th July: Mary sends a letter to the Privy Council outlining her claim to the throne and includes letters to the localities calling upon her supporters
10th July: Lady Jane Grey is declared Queen
14th July: Northumberland feels London for Cambridge and Mary moves to the Kenninghall Castle
19th July: Mary is proclaimed Queen after the "greatest demonstration of mass loyalty ever accorded to a Tudor"
24th July: Northumberland is arrested
3rd August: Mary enters London
7th August: Cranmer conducts Edward's funeral
30th September: Mary's coronation
1554
Heresy laws revived
Reconstruction of the Crown's finances re-establishes the court of the Exchequer
14th January: Terms of the marriage treaty are announced
Reconstruction of the Crown's finances re-establishes the court of the Exchequer
14th January: Terms of the marriage treaty are announced
Wyatt's Rebellion
18th January: The Wyatt's rebellion plot is discovered
21st January: The scale of the Wyatt's rebellion - The lack of nationally known people amongst the group mean that they were unable to attract others to join their cause and therefore turn it into a large scale rebellion. However, it was still a cause for concern for the government.
25th January: Wyatt raised his standard at Maidstone and within 2 days had established his headquarters at Rochester. He was soon joined by further forces from other areas of the country which had been rallied by the anti-Spanish propaganda issuing from Wyatt's camp. This propaganda made it difficult for loyalists in Kent to rally forces against him.
29th January: Mary acted before the troops grew any larger or stronger and her response was to send troops under the aged Duke of Norfolk to meet the rebels. However, this was not successful as as many of the rebels deserted the Duke of Norfolk to join the rebels.
3rd February: Wyatt eventually reaches the Thames. This was a grave mistake as it gave London a chance to prepare for their attack. Upon arrival, the rebels waited, uncertain of their next action. It was not until Feb 6th that they finally crossed the River Thames at Knightsbridge.
9th February: Princess Elizabeth is arrested for her supposed involvement in the plot.
12th February: The main body of the rebels were attacked, but Wyatt was able to proceed to Charing Cross where government forces fled at the first shot. It appeared that the rebellion would be success and the government would be defeated, but this was not the case. Ludgate remained closed, and the rebels were forced to surrender. Executed of Lady Jane Grey.
21st January: The scale of the Wyatt's rebellion - The lack of nationally known people amongst the group mean that they were unable to attract others to join their cause and therefore turn it into a large scale rebellion. However, it was still a cause for concern for the government.
25th January: Wyatt raised his standard at Maidstone and within 2 days had established his headquarters at Rochester. He was soon joined by further forces from other areas of the country which had been rallied by the anti-Spanish propaganda issuing from Wyatt's camp. This propaganda made it difficult for loyalists in Kent to rally forces against him.
29th January: Mary acted before the troops grew any larger or stronger and her response was to send troops under the aged Duke of Norfolk to meet the rebels. However, this was not successful as as many of the rebels deserted the Duke of Norfolk to join the rebels.
3rd February: Wyatt eventually reaches the Thames. This was a grave mistake as it gave London a chance to prepare for their attack. Upon arrival, the rebels waited, uncertain of their next action. It was not until Feb 6th that they finally crossed the River Thames at Knightsbridge.
9th February: Princess Elizabeth is arrested for her supposed involvement in the plot.
12th February: The main body of the rebels were attacked, but Wyatt was able to proceed to Charing Cross where government forces fled at the first shot. It appeared that the rebellion would be success and the government would be defeated, but this was not the case. Ludgate remained closed, and the rebels were forced to surrender. Executed of Lady Jane Grey.
July: Philip arrives in England and marries Mary
November: Reginald Pole arrives as the Papal Legate
1555
Pole is appointed Archbishop of Canterbury
Beginning of the naval rebuilding programme
Poor harvest
January: Act restoring Papal Supremacy
February: Beginning of the heresy persecutions, burning of Latimer and Ridley
Beginning of the naval rebuilding programme
Poor harvest
January: Act restoring Papal Supremacy
February: Beginning of the heresy persecutions, burning of Latimer and Ridley
Dudley Conspiricy
- The idea was depose Mary and Philip, and raise Elizabeth to the throne. It was also intended to secure her marriage to Edward Courtenay
January: Henry Dudley and his agents moved, to conceal stores of ammunition at strategic locations, and also secluded an amount of money totaling £50, 000, previously withdrawn and removed from the Exchequer, (where Dudley was a familiar visitor and had a number of friends) to make ready for an invasion planned to be executed by mercenaries and exiles. The money was to be sent to France where his Protestant exile supporters would follow the initiative through
March: Henry returned to France and was engaged in rising the invasion force, with the intention of landing it on the Isle of Wight to march on London
July: Henry Peckham (one of Henry Dudley allies who worked on the plan to obtain funds by robbing the Exchequer) was detected and was put in the Tower as a prisoner. He and his assistants were hanged for treason. As Dudley was in France at the time that the plot was uncovered, he remained in exile there.
1556
Another poor harvest
Beginning of "sweating sickness" epidemic
Plans for full recoinage drawn up - but not implemented
Burning of Cranmer
January: Philip becomes King of Spain
Beginning of "sweating sickness" epidemic
Plans for full recoinage drawn up - but not implemented
Burning of Cranmer
January: Philip becomes King of Spain
1557
War with France
Pole deprived of legateship and under investigation by Rome for heresy
Continuation of "sweating sickness" epidemic
Pole deprived of legateship and under investigation by Rome for heresy
Continuation of "sweating sickness" epidemic
Stafford Conspiricy
- The unsuccessful uprising launched against Mary in April - Thomas Stafford believed that he had a right to the English throne
18th April: Stafford sailed from Dieppe with two ships and over 30 men.
25th April: Ships land in Scarborough and he walks into the unprotected Castle and appoints himself Protector of the Realm - attempting to incite a new revolt by denouncing the Spanish marriage. Stafford claimed he had seen letters at Dieppe showing that Scarborough and 12 other castles would be given to Philip II and garrisoned with 12,000 Spanish soldiers before his coronation. Having been apprised of Stafford's activities by Dr. Nicholas Wotton, its ambassador in France, the English government knew about the invasion with-in hours.
28th April: A force of local levies under Henry Neville, Earl of Westmorland, retook the castle and captured Stafford, whose enterprise had generated no support. Imprisoned with 30 of his adherents, Stafford was convicted of treason
28th May: Stafford was beheaded for treason and his 32 followers were executed after the rebellion
1558
Loss of Calais
Militia system reformed
New Book of Rates
November: death of Mary
Militia system reformed
New Book of Rates
November: death of Mary