2. SPANISH ARMADA
In 1588, the king of Spain sent his armada of
fighting ships to conquer England. He failed.
3. KING PHILIP II
Elizabeth became king in 1588, soon after some
fights with Spain were started.
Mary had been a Roman Catholic and had
undone all Henry VIII´S changes to the Church.
This angered English Protestants so she started
a war with France. She had married Phillip II of
Spain and when she die's, Philip wanted to marry
Elizabeth
England was loosing badly, it was broke so Philip
promised to use Spain´s armies to help her
against the French if she married him.
Elizabeth was a Protestant and Philip was a
Catholic.
4. Elizabeth turned down Philip II´S proposal of
marriage, ended the war with France and made
England Protestant again.
5. KEEPING THE PEACE
In 1559 Elizabeth was put on charge of the Church of
England.
Everyone must attend the services, these were in
English but they kept some Catholic traditions.
She was trying to keep both Catholics and
Protestants happy.
If Catholics did not go to church Elizabeth fined them
by ordering the JUSTICE OF PEACE (JP): each
village had to keep a record of those who missed
church´s services. The JP kept law and order in the
parishes in his area, they were chosen by the Privy
Council ( Elizabeth´s advisers) who usually gave the
job to the richest landowner in the area. The JP were
not paid, They acted as spies for the Privy Council.
6. PRIEST´S ATTEMPT
In 1580 the pope ordered the Jesuits (Catholic
priest) to make England Catholic again but they
were captured, tortured and put to death as
traitors.
Traitors executed way:
Let the traitor be hanged, taken down
alive, his bowels taken out and burned
before his face, and quartered.
7. THE SPANISH ARMADA IN 1588
The English were better at everything than the
Spanish and this was the main reason why the
Armada was beaten. This story was repeated by
the Elizabethans to kept the national honour
and finally it grew into a myth.
New evidence was found that changed the views
about the armada.
Archaeological divers have recovered objects
from the wrecks of the Spanish ships and some
historians have used Spanish account in the
Armada.
Historians are constantly making new
interpretation about what happened in 1588
