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Seizure of the Spanish treasure ships |
Dec. |
1568 |
|
Embargo in the Low Countries |
3 Jan. |
1569 |
|
" in England |
5 " |
" |
|
Return of the Regent Murray to Scotland |
- " |
" |
|
Inquisition established in the Low Countries |
26 Feb. |
" |
|
Battle of Jarnac |
13 March |
" |
|
Henry Middlemore sent into Scotland |
- " |
" |
|
Henry Killegrew sent into Germany |
April |
" |
|
Letters from Queen of Scots seized on the Borders |
22 May |
" |
|
Ambassador sent from Ivan the Terrible |
June |
" |
|
Forces from the Pope enter France |
4 " |
" |
|
The Highlands reduced to obedience by Murray |
- " |
" |
|
Convention at St. Johnstone's [Perth] |
July |
" |
|
Examination of French Paris |
10 Aug. |
" |
|
Execution of French Paris |
16 " |
" |
|
Maitland of Lethington and James Balfour arrested |
Sept. |
" |
|
Siege of Poitiers |
" |
" |
|
Arrival of English volunteers at Rochelle |
" |
" |
|
Battle of Moncontour |
3 Oct. |
" |
|
The Commendator of Dunfermline sent to Queen Elizabeth |
5 " |
" |
|
The Regent Murray takes order on the Borders |
10, 11, Oct. |
" |
|
Chapin Vitelli at Dover |
16 Oct. |
" |
|
Mr. Carey sent to Murray |
- " |
" |
|
The French Ambassador requires that the Queen of Scots
shall not be delivered up to her enemies |
- " |
" |
|
Outbreak of the Great Northern Rebellion |
15 Nov. |
" |
|
Northumberland and Westmoreland fly into Scotland |
20 Dec. |
" |
|
Northumberland betrayed to Murray |
24 " |
" |
|
Sir Henry Gates and Drury sent to Murray |
13 Jan. |
1570. |
|
Assassination of Murray |
23 " |
" |
|
Great raids into England |
Jan. & Feb. |
" |
|
Randolph sent into Scotland |
7 Feb. |
" |
|
Leonard Dacres' Rebellion |
17 " |
" |
|
Mons. Verac lands at Dumbarton |
March |
" |
|
Convention at Linlithgow |
16 April |
" |
|
Sussex invades Scotland |
19 " |
" |
|
Home Castle taken |
28 " |
" |
|
Fast Castle taken |
4 May |
" |
|
Sir W. Drury enters Scotland |
12 " |
" |
|
Treason of Dumbarton |
15 " |
" |
|
Commendator of Dunfermline arrives at London |
15 " |
" |
|
Publication of the Bull of Excommunication by John Felton |
25 May |
1570. |
|
Drury returns to Berwick |
3 June |
" |
|
Convention at Stirling |
20 " |
" |
|
Lennox elected to the Regency |
12 July |
" |
|
Henry Cobham sent into the Low Countries and Germany |
Aug. |
" |
|
Treaty of St. Germains-en-Laye |
5 " |
" |
|
Brechin House taken by Lennox |
14 " |
" |
|
Spanish officers land at Aberdeen |
14 " |
" |
|
Sussex again invades Scotland |
22 " |
" |
|
Cobham has audience with Alva |
28 " |
" |
|
Convention of the Lords of the Queen of Scots' party |
4 Sept. |
" |
|
Cobham has audience with Maximilian II. |
12 " |
" |
|
Lethington and others put to the horn |
8 Oct. |
" |
|
Walsingham sent to the French Court |
19 Dec. |
" |
|
Lord Buckhurst arrives at Paris |
21 " |
" |
|
Capture of Dumbarton |
4 April |
1571. |
|
Henry Cobham arrives at Madrid |
26 " |
" |
|
Parliament at Edinburgh |
13 June |
" |
|
Moscow burnt by the Tartars |
2 July |
" |
|
Anthony Jenkinson arrives as Ambassador in Russia |
28 " |
" |
|
Letter from the Duke of Anjou to Queen Elizabeth |
31 " |
" |
|
Raid of Stirling |
4 Sept. |
" |
|
Battle of Lepanto |
7 Oct. |
" |
