A Place in Time

Timeline of some important events in the early modern age; a place in time; living in the early modern age - going up in the world, women's lives, children, country people, food, disease and medicine; a changing world; kings - good, bad or a bit of both? - Henry VI, Edward IV, the Wars of the Roses, Henry VII, Henry VIII, the great cardinal, James IV of Scotland; Crown and Church - Henry VIII supreme head of the Church of England, the end of the monasteries, the Bible in English, Edward VI the Protestant king, the new Queen, Mary, Queen of Scots - threat to Elizabeth, traitors or martyrs, the Spanish Armada 1588; Elizabethan people - Elizabeth I and her courtiers, Bess of Hardwick, members of parliament, Londoners, poor people; unpopular kings - James I, the Gunpowder plot, puritans and pilgrims; Charles I; the Long Parliament; Cavaliers and Roundheads - divided families, choosing a headquarters, soldiers and weapons, women in wartime, Prince Rupert, Oliver Cromwell and the Ironsides, trial and execution, Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector ;changing times - Ireland, Scotland, Samuel Pepys and his times, Plague 1665, the Great Fire of London 1666, the rebuilding of London, new goods to buy, slaves, the East, an important day in Tichborne.