Mary, Queen of Scots

had forced to become Catholic; however, these people wanted independence and had become Protestants in secret. During this time the English had begun to help Dutch Protestants and this maddened King Philip II. In 1587 Elizabeth I had Mary, Queen of Scots, executed; Mary was a Catholic who had said if she became the ruler of England it would become a Catholic nation. All of these events led to King Philip II gathering 127 ships and 27,000 men to invade England. The Spanish Armada had been…

Wyatt’s rebellion posed a threat to Tudor governance but it was not aimed at deposing Mary and thus posed Mary’s hold on the throne less of a threat. Richards suggests that Wyatt 's rebellion posed a serious threat to Mary. She argues that by virtue of the numbers involved, Wyatt was set to march on and challenge London, the hub of Tudor power. However, Guy has a different view. He points out that Wyatt was isolated with the other uprisings failing to materialise and also was stopped by the…

Alfred Clarke created what is considered the first-ever special effect. While filming a reenactment of the beheading of Mary, Queen of Scots, Clarke instructed an actor to step up to the block in Mary's costume. As the executioner brought the axe above his head, Clarke stopped the camera, had all the actors freeze, and had the person playing Mary step off the set. He placed a Mary dummy in the actor's place, restarted filming, and allowed the executioner to bring the axe down, severing the…

Powerful Women in Society Queen Elizabeth the First and Oprah Winfrey are two very different people that have lived very different lives, however, they are also very similar in many ways. Both women have overcome unbelievable hardships in their lives, and both used their influence to improve society creating wonderful legacies that will continue to live on. Queen Elizabeth the First used her political influence, and position in the Monarchy to influence society of her time. Oprah Winfrey has a…

The first woman to play professional baseball was Virne “Jackie” Mitchell as a pitcher. In Jackie career she struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. Mary, Queen of Scots is supposed to be the first woman to play golf in Scotland. Women In Education The first public school for women was open on 1826 in New York and Boston. The first college for women was located in Massachusetts (Mount Holyoke). In 1852…

1553, when Edward VI was dying, there was an attempt to prevent Mary from succeeding the throne and so keep England Protestant. This rebellion is known now as “Northumberland’s Coup”, after John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland who had seen his power grow during Edwards’s short reign and was, understandably, reluctant to lose this power. He was also keen to help his daughter-in-law, Lady Jane Grey, ascend to the throne in replace of Mary I. Though Northumberland had an army of 2000, most deserted…

English and Scottish history. It is the year that for the first time in the history of the British Isles, the nations of England and Scotland became united under one monarch: with the accession of James VI of Scotland to the throne of England after Queen Elizabeth I’s death with no Tudor heir, in the same year. Until this year, the separate kingdoms had completely separate governments. This meant that they experienced a phenomenon sweeping Europe throughout the sixteenth century; the Protestant…

How the Protestant Reformation Affected Foreign Relations. At a time when the only Christian religion was Catholicism, all of Europe was Catholic. That is until Martin Luther sparked the Protestant Reformation with his ninety-five suggestions on how the church could be reformed. Once Henry VIII decided to divorce Catherine of Aragon and create the Anglican Church, he effectively cut Great Britain off from the rest of Europe. This severing of religious ties with other nations was both beneficial…

Queen Elizabeth’s speech was given to the troops at Tilbury back in 1588. At the time that this speech was given, Mary Queen of Scots had been beheaded and due to this, England was about to go at war. Many of the citizens didn’t approve of Queen Elizabeth becoming queen because they saw her as an “illegitimate daughter.” Although many citizens were ecstatic with the fact that she had became queen, she needed as many people as possible to support her since they were going at war to fight for her…

the many qualities they list, there are three that notably overlap: skill in war, the ability to act, and the wisdom to know when to. These three characteristic are all, in some way, shape, or form, present in Shakespeare's plays Macbeth and Hamlet. Queen Elizabeth's reign was widely considered a golden age in England (Briscoe), and certain aspects of her rule met the standards set by Sun Tzu, Machiavelli, and Shakespeare, while others did not. War is a large theme in each of the two books, as…