Queen Elizabeth I ascends to the English throne, marking the beginning of the Elizabethan era, a period, when England asserted itself vigorously as a major European power in politics, commerce, and the arts. Her coronation took place in January 15 1559.
She instituted The the Elizabethan religious Settlement (effected with the Act of Supremacy and Act of Uniformity).During her reign, the kingdom was also threatened by grave internal divisions and the emergence of poverty and cost inflation on a new major scale, made worse by harvest failures. The years of 1594 to 1577 were particularly difficult and remarkable by the misery they engendered. More
