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Elizabeth I Foreign Policy - Coggle Diagram
Elizabeth I Foreign Policy
Scotland
1559-1569
1560
- Elizabeth created an Anglophile government in Scotland
1560
- England offers conditional support to the Lord of the Congregation at the Treaty of Berwick
March 1560
- England sends army to the North, blockading the port of Leith
July 1560
- Treaty of Edinburgh signed
Feb 1567
- murder of Lord Darnley (Mary's second husband)
June 1566
- birth of James VI (heir to Scottish throne)
July 1567
- Mary's abdication / demission
Dec 1559
- England sends navy to the Firth of Forth to prevent French reinforcements from landing
1569
- Northern Rebellion
northern rebels wanting Mary, Queen of Scots, on the English throne
northern rebels supporting Mary
1570-1580
Jan 1570
- assassination of Moray
Scotland enters civil war
Elizabeth needing to send troops into Scotland under the control of the Earl of Sussex
July 1570
- Elizabeth forced to intervene when Mary's supporters challenged the authority of King James VI's supporters
Nov 1572
- Elizabeth sending troops to Scotland to underpin the authority of James Douglas, Earl of Morton
1581-1591
1592-1603
France
1559-1569
June 1559
- Death of the French King
March 1562
- Conflict breaks out between French Catholics and Protestants
Elizabeth promises Huguenot leader, Prince of Conde, 6000 men and £30 000 loan
Huguenot army was defeated
Duke of Guise was assassinated
1564
- Treaty of Troyes signed with France
England permanently loses Calais
1570-1580
August 1572
- St Bartholomew's Eve massacre
1572
- Treaty of Blois
French agreed not to support Mary, Queen of Scots
1581-1591
1589
- Henry III assassinated
1592-1603
Spain
1559-1569
1568
- Spanish ships attack John Hawkins' fleet at San Juan de Ulua
Elizabeth responds by impounding Spanish bullion in Cornwall and Devon
1568
- Duke of Alva defeated Dutch rebels led by William, Prince of Orange
Alva seized all English ships and English property in the Netherlands
1567
- Philip II wanting to crush heresy in the Netherlands
1564
- English exploration of South America worsened Anglo-Spanish relations
1567
- Duke of Alva dispatched to the Netherlands in presumed rebellion
angered Elizabeth
proximity and threat to national security
1570-1580
1579-1580
- Netherlands breaks from Spain
1571
- Spanish support the Ridolfi Support
1572
- Elizabeth expels the Dutch Sea Beggars
1581-1591
1584
- Spanish embassy permanently terminated
1592-1603