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1605 The Gunpowder Plot is discovered

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1566 Birth of Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex
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1555 Death of Bishop Stephen Gardiner, Catholic bishop and Mary I’s Lord Chancellor

1586 Parliament petitioned Elizabeth I to sign Mary Queen of Scots’s death warrant

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1501 Marriage of Prince Arthur and Catherine of Aragon

1532 St Erkenwald’s Day – Possible secret marriage between Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII

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1558 Death of Mary I, accession of Elizabeth I
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1591 Death of Sir Christopher Hatton, Lord Chancellor and one of Elizabeth I’s favourites
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1558 Elizabeth I enters London
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1542 Battle of Solway Moss

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1533 Marriage of Henry Fitzroy (Henry VIII’s illegitimate son) and Mary Howard
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1582 Marriage bond between William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway

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1489 Birth of Margaret Tudor
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1554 Birth of poet Philip Sidney