2. Reign of Henry VIII
1509: Becomes King and
Marries Catherine of
Aragon (his deceased
brother’s widow)
1516: Catherine gives
birth to Mary I
1533: HVII divorces
Catherine and marries
Anne Boleyn
1533: Elizabeth born
1536: Anne Executed
3. Religion under Henry VII
Beginnings of the Reformation in England
1517: Martin Luther Protests Catholic
Church at Wittenberg
1533: Divorce causes rift with Rome
Henry declares himself Supreme Head
of English Church
English Church becomes increasingly
Protestant
4. Edward VI
1537-1547-1553
1537: Edward VI born to Jane
Seymour
1547: HVIII dies; Protestant
Edward takes throne at age 10
1549: Edward VI abolishes
Purgatory and “cult of the
dead”
5. Key differences between Catholics and
Protestants in the 16th Century:
Catholics pledge Highest spiritual
allegiance to the Pope authority in England is
the Monarch
Catholics believe in
transubstantiation Protestants celebrate
Lord’s Supper as
Catholic faith in symbolic
hierarchy and
authority of the Protestants suspicious
Roman Church of spectacle, images,
ritual, icons
6. 1553: The Catholic Mary Tudor
(daughter of Catherine of Aragon)
comes into power
Called “Bloody Mary”
for persecution of
Protestants
Attempts to make
England Catholic
again
Marries Phillip II of
Spain
7. 1558: Queen Elizabeth (daughter of Anne
Boleyn) takes the throne
Protestant
Persecutes
Catholics for
Allegiance
Institutes
Common Prayer
Book
8. QEI Perpetuates Image of “Virgin Queen”
Uses Suitors for
Political Leverage
Anxiety of Heirless
Realm
Challenges and
Perpetuates
Gender Roles
9. Queen Elizabeth broadens British “Empire”
Britain enters into slave trade
1583: Charter for Colony of Virginia Granted
11. Phillip II sends Spanish Armada (the
superior naval force in Europe) to invade
England
A storm destroys the Armada
This defeat is celebrated as an “act of
God”
Back on the island, QEI is centralizing
power in monarchy
12. QEI addresses the troops at Tillbury in full armor
“I know I have the body of a weak and
feeble woman; but I have the heart and
stomach of a king, and a king of
England too, and think foul scorn that
Parma or Spain, or any prince of Europe,
should dare to invade the borders of my
realm; to which rather than any
dishonour shall grow by me, I myself
will take up arms.”
13. The Rainbow
Portrait: 1600
Imagery:
Fertility
Supremacy
Surveillance
Passion Checked by
Reason
14. 1601: Essex
Rebellion
Essex fails to quell rebellion
in Ireland
Attempts to overthrow the
Queen
Stages Richard II
Executed
15. 1603: QEI dies heirless; Scottish James I comes into power
16. James I of Scotland comes to the Throne
King James I brings
peace but not faith in
the monarchy
Squanders funds
1611: Commissions
King James Bible
