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Not a good time to be the wife of a King, Henry VIII has six in a row but at least the Spanish Armada doesn't make it either. Guy Fawkes tries to blow up Parliament and everyone wishes he had made it, the British still celebrate the attempt each year on November 5th. And then along came Oliver Cromwell who made a complete mess of things or perhaps he was just 350 years to early? |
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1515 |
Thomas Wolsey becomes Chancellor |
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1534 |
The Act of Supremacy, Henry VIII seizes control of the English Church |
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1567 |
Deposition of Mary, Queen of Scots |
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1577 |
Drake begins voyage around the world |
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1588 |
The Spanish Armada is defeated |
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1600 |
The East India Company is founded |
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1605 |
The Gunpowder Plot |
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1606 |
The Union Jack becomes the national flag of Great Britain |
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1611 |
The King James Bible is published |
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1614 |
Napier publishes the first logarithms |
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1642 |
Start of the English Civil War |
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1649 |
Charles I executed |
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1653 |
Oliver Cromwell becomes Lord Protector |
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1658 |
Cromwell dies |
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