17.11.1558 Elizabeth I came to the throne.

The reign of Elizabeth I is often referred to as the Golden Age of England. She is widely regarded as a monarch who sought to reconcile religious intolerance.

Queen Elizabeth I of England and Ireland was born on 7 September 1533 and died on 24 March 1603. She was Queen of England from 1558 to 1603 and was known by the nicknames "The Virgin Queen" or "Good Queen Bath".

She is generally regarded as the most successful of the English monarchs. She became queen at the age of twenty-five after her younger brother Edward died of tuberculosis (1553) and her half-sister Mary subsequently died (1558). During Mary's reign, Elizabeth was imprisoned for two months in the dreaded Tower of London.

Her reign is often referred to as the Golden Age of England. "Shakespeare's plays were written and performed, the Spanish Armada was defeated and the diplomatic relations with the Ottoman Empire, exploration and settlement of the American colonies. Elizabeth employed Sir Francis Walsingham, the emerging man in charge of her network of spies, and used his services to great advantage," writes Matthew Reilly in The Tournament.

Elizabeth's reign was punctuated by war with Spain and the crushing of a large army, constant uprisingsCatholic rebellion, and other not entirely peaceful phenomena, it was more than forty years of steady development and growth. Elizabeth is most famous for having pushed through the beheading of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots and a Catholic.

In England, Elizabeth is regarded as the monarch who sought to reconcile religious intolerance. A different view is held by the Irish, who are more likely to recall 1582, when Elizabeth's troops slaughtered the Irish during the suppression of theof one of the many rebellions, some 30,000 Irishmen, many of them not rebels but civilians, including women and children.

The English army employed scorched-earth tactics in Ireland, leading to several waves of famine and widespread destruction across the island. During her reign, the theatre developed quite substantially, the whole period is usually referred to as the age of "Elizabethan theatre".

When Elizabeth I died, her closest living relative was King James VI, who thus became James I. of England and also head of the Church of England.But he was not popular among Catholics, so a small group decided to assassinate him and the whole parliament with him, it was a Gunpowder Plot...

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